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The Dialectics of Closure in Bulgakov’s Master and Margarita
Author(s) -
Amert Susan
Publication year - 2002
Publication title -
the russian review
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.136
H-Index - 24
eISSN - 1467-9434
pISSN - 0036-0341
DOI - 10.1111/1467-9434.00252
Subject(s) - closure (psychology) , dialectic , citation , sociology , library science , philosophy , computer science , political science , epistemology , law
Imagine that you, for example, begin to rule, to be in charge of both others and yourself ... and suddenly you get ... heh-heh ... lung cancer ... and your rule is finished! No one's fate interests you any more but your own. Your kinfolk begin lying to you. Sensing that something is wrong, you rush to see learned physicians, then quacks, perhaps even fortune-tellers.... But it all ends tragically: he who not long before had assumed he was in charge of something turns out to be suddenly lying motionless (vdrug lezhashchim nepodvizhno) in a wooden box, and those surrounding him, understanding that there's no more use to be gotten out of the one lying there (tolku ot lezhashchego net), burn him up in an oven (szhigaiut ego v pechi).'