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Both novels explore the notion of atopia, but along somewhat different lines: whereas in Joseph and His Brothers, atopia largely concerns the theotopian bridges over the existential void, in Bulgakov’s narrative it also concerns the role of art and the artist in creating what Aldous Huxley would call an alternative, “sane” or healthy society. Buy The Master and Margarita: Introduction by Simon Franklin (Everymans Library Contemporary Classics) Millennium Library by Bulgakov, Mikhail, Franklin, Simon, Glenny, Michael (ISBN: 9780679410461) from Amazons Book Store. In turn, Bulgakov’s masterpiece of the 1930s appears to follow the general dystopian trend, but it actually reveals itself to be a theotopia in dystopian disguise. One of the most remarkable exceptions to this modernist dystopian trend is Thomas Mann’s masterpiece, Joseph and his Brothers. In other words, theotopias have largely gone out of style in modernist highbrow culture, following a steady historical trend since the second part of the 19th century, already discussed in previous chapters.

The modernist dystopias mentioned so far in this study contain few religious elements, given the fact that the modernist utopias themselves are preponderantly secular and tend to treat religion as just another cultural institution that needs to be reformed and regulated, if not eliminated al together.

The master and margarita everyman's library