Abstract
In the novel Master and Margarita, M.A. Bulgakov employs extensive bathhouse (bania) imagery to create the phantasmagorical setting of the Spring Ball of the Full Moon. The bathhouse imagery originates in realia of the Sandunov Bathhouses in 1920s era Moscow and literary texts of A.S. Pushkin (Ruslan and Liudmila), A. Belyi (Return), and V.A. Giliarovskii (Moscow and Muscovites). Analysis of these prototypes increases the reader’s ability to visualize the kaleidoscopic imagery of the Spring Ball, interpret the literary allusions that go along with it, and decipher Bulgakov’s use of setting to create meaning.
Citation
Демент, Сидней Эрик. “Значение прототипа: ‘Сандуновские бани’ в романе Мастер и Маргарита.” М.А. Булгаков и булгаковедение в научном и образовательном пространстве: Сборник научных статей. Ответ. ред. В.А. Коханова. Москва: МПГУ, 2011. 178-86.
Dement, Sidney Eric. “Znachenie prototipa: ‘Sandunovskie bani’ v romane Master i Margarita.” M.A. Bulgakov i bulgakovedenie v nauchnom i obrazovatel’nom prostranstve: Sbornik nauchnykh statei. Otvet. red. V.A. Kokhanova. Moskva: MPGU, 2011. 178-86.