Depicting the divine Mikhail Bulgakov and Thomas Mann
Fairy tales about God -- A novel about Pontius Pilate -- Reading between the lines -- Inventing God -- High silence and man's telling word -- Angelic narrators and pagan deities.
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| Sprache: | eng |
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2021
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| Ausgabe: | First paperback edition |
| Schriftenreihe: | Studies in comparative literature
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Tag hinzufügen | Zusammenfassung: | Fairy tales about God -- A novel about Pontius Pilate -- Reading between the lines -- Inventing God -- High silence and man's telling word -- Angelic narrators and pagan deities. Two of the iconic novels of the twentieth century, Mikhail Bulgakov's The Master and Margarita (1928-40) and Thomas Mann's Joseph and His Brothers (1933-43), each engage with religious themes in the face of militant, sometimes violent, cultural opposition: Soviet communism and Nazi anti-Semitism. They have divine characters, Jesus and Yahweh, and draw upon modern developments in biblical study, emphasising scripture as texts subject to literary criticism. Yet, as Voronina shows, Mann and Bulgakov employ a deliberately contradictory narrative strategy, de-mystifying and de-sacralising their divine protagonists but leaving the existence of the transcendent open. In this way, doubt becomes both a dramatisation of faith and a strategy for approaching the divine |
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| Beschreibung: | Auf der Titelseite fälschlich das Erscheinungsjahr der Hardbackausgabe Includes bibliographical references (pages 123-132) and index |
| Beschreibung: | xii, 135 Seiten 26 cm |
| ISBN: | 9781781885468 978-1-78188-546-8 9781781885451 978-1-78188-545-1 |