— I commented on Brannen's blog.
Monday, February 22, 2016
Levi
Matthu. Homeboy. Whatchu doin in Moscow bruh?? But seriously. I don't completely understand why Bulgakov chooses to use Matthew as the huge messenger figure. There's a key passage that discusses the fate of Matthu and Pilate. These figures represent the different sides of the philosophy of the "idea" that Bulgakov plays around with through the whole novel. Ideas and specifically those that become written word. "manuscripts don't burn" When most people think of Christ, they remember Pilate as the guy who killed Jesus. And Pilate in real history never got over his guilt of the crucifixion. He went down in infamy for his crime. Thus we have his position in the novel. On the other side, nobody really knows Matthew except the writer of a gospel. He's not a necessarily huge figure in the gospels other than that. But his name is the one on the manuscript. He's the translator of the ideas. He gives them their immortality. He IS the ultimate transcending messenger. This his position in the novel.
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Your diction is on point.
ReplyDeleteMay your manuscript never be burnt nor your flaming ideas be quenched.
On a more serious note, thank you for this idea of Matthew as the transcending messenger. No matter what happens or how it happens, he wrote it. It cannot be changed; it cannot be burned.