The opposition “home – world” in the drama of M.A. Bulgakov of the 1920s (“The Days of the Turbins”, “Zoyka’s apartment”, “Flight”)
https://doi.org/10.20310/2587-6953-2020-6-24-783-793
EDN: ECUBKG
Abstract
We consider the reflection forms and opposition functions of the “house – world” in the poetics of M.A. Bulgakov’s plays of the 1920s: “The Days of the Turbins”, “Zoyka’s apartment” and “Flight”. We conclude that this opposition organizes their spatial composition. In “The Days of the Turbins”, an acute confrontation between home and world is brought out, and the victory is for the former on the plot and ideological level, which is emphasized by the cyclic spatial composition. In “Zoyka's apartment”, the external world is mostly only implied, but its expansion is so active that its space at home begins to double, distort and in the denouement is lost by the characters on the plot level, while maintaining its value significance. This significance is preserved in the “Flight”, where the stage space is the outside world, and the home is only implied as a memory and a dream accompanying the actors. In Bulgakov’s mind, the home confronts the world as a women’s space to a men’s. The character of the relationship between the hero and the heroine, the strength of the personality of both sexes lead to the dominance of one of the types of space in each play.
Keywords
archetype “home – world”,
M.A. Bulgakov,
chronotope,
Russian drama of the 1920s,
“The Days of the Turbins”,
“Zoyka’s apartment”,
“Flight”
Supporting agencies: The study is funded by China Scholarship Council.
About the Author
Liang Weiqi
Saint-Petersburg State University
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
Weiqi Liang, Post-Graduate Student, History of Russian Literature Department
7-9 Universitetskaya Emb., St. Petersburg 199034, Russian Federation
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Weiqi L. The opposition “home – world” in the drama of M.A. Bulgakov of the 1920s (“The Days of the Turbins”, “Zoyka’s apartment”, “Flight”). Neophilology. 2020;6(24):783-793. (In Russ.) https://doi.org/10.20310/2587-6953-2020-6-24-783-793. EDN: ECUBKG
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