Depicting the Divine
Mikhail Bulgakov and Thomas Mann
Olga G. Voronina
Click cover to enlarge Buy hardback at: Buy paperback at: Booksellers & libraries: | Studies In Comparative Literature 47 Legenda 23 April 2019 • 148pp ISBN: 978-1-781885-45-1 (hardback) • RRP £75, $99, €90 ISBN: 978-1-781885-46-8 (paperback, 13 December 2021) • RRP £9.99, $13.50, €12.50 ISBN: 978-1-781885-47-5 (JSTOR ebook) Access online: Books@JSTOR ModernRussianGermanFictionstudent-priced In addition to its original library hardback edition, this title is now on sale in the new student-priced Legenda paperback range. 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. Olga G. Voronina received her PhD in Comparative Literature from University College London. She has taught at the Universities of Leeds, Nottingham, St Andrews, the School of Slavonic and East European Studies at University College London and University College Oxford. Reviews:
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Bibliography entry: Voronina, Olga G., Depicting the Divine: Mikhail Bulgakov and Thomas Mann, Studies In Comparative Literature, 47 (Legenda, 2019) First footnote reference: 35 Olga G. Voronina, Depicting the Divine: Mikhail Bulgakov and Thomas Mann, Studies In Comparative Literature, 47 (Legenda, 2019), p. 21. Subsequent footnote reference: 37 Voronina, p. 47. (To see how these citations were worked out, follow this link.) Bibliography entry: Voronina, Olga G.. 2019. Depicting the Divine: Mikhail Bulgakov and Thomas Mann, Studies In Comparative Literature, 47 (Legenda) Example citation: ‘A quotation occurring on page 21 of this work’ (Voronina 2019: 21). Example footnote reference: 35 Voronina 2019: 21. (To see how these citations were worked out, follow this link.) This title is distributed on behalf of MHRA by Ingram’s. Booksellers and libraries can order direct from Ingram by setting up an ipage Account: click here for more. Permanent link to this title: www.mhra.org.uk/publications/Depicting-Divine www.mhra.org.uk/publications/sicl-47 |