http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/keyword/antun-gustav-matos Inquiries Journal provides undergraduate and graduate students around the world a platform for the wide dissemination of academic work over a range of core disciplines. en-us Tue, 07 Apr 2026 05:58:33 -0400 Tue, 07 Apr 2026 05:58:33 -0400 http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/169/mikhail-bulgakov-and-antun-gustav-matos-two-authors-and-periods-collide By Alessandro Seren Rosso - The death theme, deeply analyzed in both narrations, is thus developed differently. The love theme presents fewer differences, even if Bulgakov draws more of a romantic story, while Matos’style is more symbolist. If love between the Master and Margarita is “true, faithful, eternal”, Kamenski’s love toward her female partner is a forbidden love, unfaithful, as the lady is married to another man. It is a love that can only end up in a tragedy, as it will promptly happen at the story's end. The woman is seen as a symbolist poetry’s symbol, a non-present detail in Bulgakov... Tue, 16 Feb 2010 09:24 EST http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/169/mikhail-bulgakov-and-antun-gustav-matos-two-authors-and-periods-collide