The Works of B. Pasternak and «Doctor Faustus» by T. Mann. I. Drops and Sounds
Journal: Izvestia of Smolensk State University
Year: 2025

The article examines the points of contact between the novel «Doctor Faustus» by T. Mann and the work of B. Pasternak. An analysis is given of how a meta-textual field is formed around common themes, relevant to the literary process of the first half of the 20th century and based on the European literary tradition of previous eras. The focus is on two motifs that Mann combined in one fragment and which represent a figurative-motivic and semantic complex: a drop behaving like a living organism an