THE THEME OF MERCY IN THE EARLY CAREER OF MIKHAIL BULGAKOV

Abstract

Literary analysis of the first works of M. Bulgakov. A series of stories about medical practice formed the basic traits of creative credo of Bulgakov as an artist. The writer analyzes the life of a young doctor and shows the desire of the individual to be in harmony with the world and himself. Mercy becomes a leitmotif in M. Bulgakov’s works. In all the stories of the cycle, in the foreground are the feelings of a man who every day faces the people whose lives and health are in his hands. The idea of humanism is the basis of the creation of these stories.