Значение прототипа: ‘Сандуновские бани’ в романе Мастер и Маргарита

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.