Zufall, Erlösung und Politik

2020 ◽  
Vol 30 (1) ◽  
pp. 53-81
Author(s):  
Helmut König
Keyword(s):  
The Novel ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Political Thinking ◽  
Mikhail Bulgakov ◽  
Life Threatening ◽  
History Of ◽  
Enduring Power ◽  
Master And Margarita

Master and Margarita is a masterpiece of literary modernity. Mikhail Bulgakov wrote the novel in the 1930s in Moscow under the life-threatening conditions of personal persecution. The novel shows how all rationalist claims to power fail because of the invincible power of chance. The utopian state of peace and freedom that the novel creates lies in a sphere beyond all real conflicts and tensions. The present Corona crisis puts the planning reason, which characterizes the history of Western rationality, in many ways questioned. It testifies to the enduring power of chance and thus to the principal limits of human domination of nature. This experience should sensitize our political thinking for the fundamental vulnerability of human beings and the existence of the unpredictable in a new way.

scholarly journals Towards a Decolonial Narrative Ethics

Humanities ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (3) ◽  
pp. 120
Author(s):  
Hille Haker
Keyword(s):  
Mutual Recognition ◽  
Narrative Ethics ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Political Ethics ◽  
Intercultural Understanding ◽  
Ethics Of Reading ◽  
History Of ◽  
Historically Situated ◽  
Aesthetic Principle

This essay explores the contribution of two works of German literature to a decolonial narrative ethics. It analyzes the structures of colonialism, taking narratives as a medium of and for ethical reflection, and reinterprets the ethical concepts of recognition and responsibility. This essay examines two stories. Franz Kafka’s Report to an Academy (1917) addresses the biological racism of the German scientists around 1900, unmasking the racism that renders apes (or particular people) the pre-life of human beings (or particular human beings). It also demonstrates that the politics of recognition, based on conditional (mis-)recognition, must be replaced by an ethics of mutual recognition. Uwe Timm’s Morenga (1978) uses the cross-reference of history and fiction as an aesthetic principle, narrating the history of the German genocide of the Nama and Herero people at the beginning of the 20th century. Intercultural understanding, the novel shows, is impossible when it is based on the conditional, colonial (mis-)recognition that echoes Kafka’s unmasking; furthermore, the novel illuminates the interrelation of recognition and responsibility that requires not only an aesthetic ethics of reading based on attentiveness and response but also a political ethics that confronts the (German) readers as historically situated agents who must take responsibility for their past.

THE SPASE OF LIGHT AND DARKNESS IN THE CONTEXT OF THE CREATIVE HISTORY OF M.A. BULGAKOV’S NOVEL THE MASTER AND MARGARITA

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elena Kolysheva
Keyword(s):  
Textual Analysis ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Archival Research ◽  
History Of The Novel ◽  
Russian State ◽  
History Of ◽  
State Library ◽  
The Master And Margarita ◽  
Master And Margarita

This article is devoted to the development of the space of light and darkness in M.A. Bulgakov’s novel «The Master and Margarita». The author explores the different stages and artistic devices of Bulgakov’s work on these images in the context of the creative history of the novel. The article, based on an extensive archival research in the Manuscript Collection of Russian State Library, follows the development of the space of light and darkness through a textual analysis of the whole corpus of manuscripts of this novel

scholarly journals M. A. Bulgakov’s Novel “The Master and Margarita”: Publishing and Textual Problems

2015 ◽  
pp. 104-108
Author(s):  
Elena Yu. Kolysheva
Keyword(s):  
The Novel ◽  
Complete Collection ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Master And Margarita ◽  
Master And Margarita

This article is devoted to the textual problems and the history of creation of M. A. Bulgakov’s novel “The Master and Margarita” (based on M. A. Bulgakov’s archive). The main aim of this article is to prove the principles of determination of the novel’s basic text and to illustrate the importance of publishing the manuscript drafts of the novel. On the basis of textual, historical, and biographic researches, the author introduces all the manuscript drafts and the basic text of “The Master and Margarita” (M. A. Bulgakov. The Master and Margarita. Complete Collection of the Manuscript Drafts. The Basic Text: 2 vol., Moscow, the Pashkov House Publ., 2014).

scholarly journals Case Report: Heparin-induced thrombocytopenia in a patient with COVID-19

F1000Research ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 9 ◽  
pp. 704
Author(s):  
Ragia Aly ◽  
Sachin Gupta ◽  
Sorab Gupta ◽  
Balraj Singh ◽  
Abhinav Goyal ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Healthcare Systems ◽  
Dialysis Catheter ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Thromboembolic Complications ◽  
Health Crisis ◽  
Heparin Induced Thrombocytopenia ◽  
High Incidence ◽  
Life Threatening ◽  
History Of ◽  
Life Threatening Complication

With the spread of the novel coronavirus disease of 2019 (COVID-19) worldwide and associated high incidence of thromboembolic complications, the use of heparin is on the rise. It therefore is crucial to identify patients with contraindications for heparin. Heparin-induced thrombocytopenia (HIT) is a life-threatening complication of exposure to heparin. We report a 66-year-old woman, who was admitted to the hospital with COVID-19 infection. Her course was complicated by pulmonary embolism and dialysis catheter thrombosis. Our patient had a known history of HIT. Treatment of this patient with heparin would have been catastrophic. The COVID-19 pandemic has overwhelmed healthcare systems and is causing a global health crisis. Nevertheless, this case serves as a reminder of the importance of making every effort to obtain thorough history and review of records of every patient.

The space of “the eternal house” in the creative history of M.A. Bulgakov’s novel “Master and Margarita”

2021 ◽  
pp. 107-118
Author(s):  
Elena Yu. Kolysheva ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Textual Analysis ◽  
Writing Process ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Main Text ◽  
The Third ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Creation ◽  
Creative Will ◽  
Master And Margarita

One of the important questions in bulgakovian studies is connected with the space of “the eternal house”, peace, which the master had deserved. The author of this paper try to understand the writer’s intention based on a textual analysis of the novel. In our work, we rely on the system of editions of the novel that we have established and its main text, reflecting the last creative will of the author to the fullest extent [1]. The line “The Master – Margarita” is outlined in drafts of the 1931 novel and is developed in its second edition (1932–1936). The third (1936) and fourth (1937) editions are incomplete — they don’t have the episodes considered in this paper. Therefore, our study uses the texts of drafts of 1931, the second, fifth (last handwritten, 1937–1938) and the sixth (final, 1938–1940) editions of the novel. The draft texts are conveyed by dynamic transcription, which will make visible the process of writer’s work on the creation and allow us to see the formation of the author’s intention. Graphic conventions are used for this: a piece of text crossed out by the writer — [text]; an insert during the writing process — text; an insert crossed out — [text]; a later insert — {text}; a later insert crossed out — {text}; a conjecture — <text>; reliability of the transmitted author’s text — <sic>; the end of a page and the transition to the next one are indicated by two straight vertical lines ||.

scholarly journals On the origins of the crowd scenes in the novel “The Master and Margarita” by Mikhail Bulgakov

2021 ◽  
Vol 27 (2) ◽  
pp. 137-142
Author(s):  
Vladimir V. Kolchanov
Keyword(s):  
Great Influence ◽  
Literary Work ◽  
Fin De Siecle ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Mikhail Bulgakov ◽  
Fin De Siècle ◽  
Black Magic ◽  
The Master And Margarita ◽  
Master And Margarita

The article deals with the roots of the crowd scenes in “The Master and Margarita” by Mikhail Bulgakov, focusing on such motifs of the novel as death's head hawkmoth and theatrical motifs. The origins of the crowd scenes in Mikhail Bulgakov’s literary work are all connected with the mentioned three motifs. The researcher uses information from the little-known literary, historical, and cultural sources. These include, firstly, the occult works of the Fin de siècle writers, such as novels “The Gloomy House Mystery” and “The New Power” written by the “Criminal Novel Master” Aleksandr Tsehanovich (1862-1896); the play “The Fair God” by David Aizman (who has been justly called “Chekhov of the Jews”) (1860-1922); the story “The Succubus” written by the Belgian writer Antoine Louis Camille Lemonnier. “A House in a Delirium” by a German prose writer W.Hollander. Second, these include literary work by a Soviet writer: story “The Condemned” by Mikhail Kozakov. Third, an important role belongs to sketches from the “The Red Panorama” journal: “The Footsteps Leading Westward” by Jānis Larri, “Travelling from Resort to Resort: Yalta” by D. Gorodinskiy. The plots and details of the named works had a great influence on Mikhail Bulgakov and inspired him while writing such chapters of the novel as “Never Talk with Strangers”, “The Seventh Proof”, “The Chase”, “Praise Be to the Rooster”, “News from Yalta”, “Black Magic and Its Exposure”, “Nikanor Ivanovich’s Dream”, “The Great Ball at Satan's” and some fragments of the auxiliary plot connected with the figure of Pontius Pilate.

scholarly journals Sunil Yapa’s Your Heart is a Muscle the Size of a Fist: Protest, Fiction and the Ethics of Care

2019 ◽  
Vol 51 (2) ◽  
pp. 3-24
Author(s):  
Isabel Alonso-Breto
Keyword(s):  
World Trade Organization ◽  
World Trade ◽  
Ethics Of Care ◽  
The Other ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Life Conditions ◽  
The World ◽  
History Of

Sunil Yapa’s politically engaged first novel vindicates the massive pacific protests that occurred during five days in Seattle in November-December 1999. These protests were summoned against the World Trade Organization summit. The novel responds to the wish to inscribe in the history of fiction a crucial event which would inspire and inflect the later anti-globalization movement and protests, and which according to some has not yet received the attention it deserves by media or criticism. This article discusses Yapa’s work in the light of the Ethics of Care, and develops an exegesis, which, incorporating elements of Hardt and Negri’s ideas about the Multitude, understands the novel mainly as a reflection of the crucial preoccupation thathumans have for other human beings, and the innate wish to actively take care of the Other and improve his or her life conditions.

scholarly journals «The White Guard» on TV: fascinated by masscult mythology

2014 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 60-67
Author(s):  
Sergey Nikolayevich Ilchenko
Keyword(s):  
Civil War ◽  
Mass Culture ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Soviet Film ◽  
Literary Source ◽  
Mikhail Bulgakov ◽  
Semantic Difference ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Way

The article analyzes the television adaptation of the famous novel by Mikhail Bulgakov, shown on Russian television in 2012. The author juxtaposes the TV-series with the renowned Soviet film Days of the Turbins, premiered in 1976. The analysis is carried out in the context of the history of a theatre version of the novel The White guard, staged in the Moscow Academic Art Theatre in the 1920s, that is Days of the Turbins, highly appreciated by Stalin. Traditionally, both theatre and cinema directors were drawn to the play adapted by Mikhail Bulgakov after his novel. Anyhow, there is a certain subject and semantic difference between these two works. The author analyzes the structure of the TV version, its style, elaboration of on-screen characters, based on the literary source and previous interpretation of the play Days of the Turbins. However, the author argues, that ideological and figurative interference into the original, adaptation to the stereotypes of mass culture significantly distort the perception of Bulgakovs works, largely obliged to the writerss mood and emotions experienced in the years of Revolution and Civil war. Concluding, the author pinpoints both - complexity unit of Bulgakovs text adaptation towards contemporary TV, and misjudgements of the TV-series makers in the way of conception and realization.

scholarly journals Święto Nocy Walpurgi jako fenomen kulturowo-literacki (na podstawie analizy porównawczej tragedii „Faust” J.W. Goethego i powieści „Mistrz i Małgorzata” M. Bułhakow

2018 ◽  
pp. 29-44
Author(s):  
Anna Chudzińska-Parkosadze
Keyword(s):  
Catholic Education ◽  
World Literature ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Mikhail Bulgakov ◽  
European Culture ◽  
The Master And Margarita ◽  
Master And Margarita

The article is devoted to the phenomenon of Walpurgis Night in European culture and literature. The author focuses on the contradictions in the notion and images of Walpurgis Night, which emerged as a result of centuries of Catholic education in Europe. As a matter of fact, the feast named after Saint Walpurga is the pagan feast of Beltane, the scared night of love, vigor and awakening new life. Such a concept of the event is reflected in two masterpieces of world literature — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's tragedy Faust and the novel The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov.

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