The anti-dogmatic metaphors in M. Bulgakov's novel “The Master and Margarita”

The article describes Christian reminiscences in Mikhail Bulgakov’s novel “The Master and Margarita”. From the perspective of evangelical traditions the themes, issues and pro-genre originality of the work are explored in the novel. The novel is analyzed in terms of menippea genre. In addition, the specifics of using the “shift” techniques lexical bias are discussed in the article; violation of the logic of cause and effect linkages, accurately traced episodes, as well as the expansion of the thematic fields, images with symbolic meaning, artistic ambiguity by using words are also described in this article. The reasons of rejection of the classical model of the universe, the binary system of concepts (good and evil, light and darkness, harmony and chaos) are analyzed. A comparative-typological analysis of the main characters of the novel is drawn. The range of problems are touched upon the issue, there are risen and closely intertwined topical issues and at the same time eternal issues: “What is truth?”, “What is real and imaginary freedom?”, “Man and his faith”, “The problem of power, conscience, man’s responsibility for his actions”, “The artist’s fate in a totalitarian regime”, “Why do betrayals happen?”, “Where is the border between mind and common sense?”, “How does true charity, love and devotion become apparent?”.