ABSTRACT

Mikhail Bulgakov’s creative work is permeated with music. Music for Bulgakov is another poetic language, the suggestive language of feelings and ideas. Through the use of this language Bulgakov is able to create effects, to evoke impressions and images which enhance verbally expressed statements or, sometimes, contrast with their meaning, resulting in a complicated kind of artistic polyphony, a musieian’s capacity to let sound several simultaneous “voices”, identical or antithetical melodies and themes.