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The Golden Calf
\n(chap. 8)<\/td>\n		1.BENDER ACT
\nDesacralization of a Mania<\/td>\n		2.LITERARY DREAMS
\nDream vs Reality<\/td>\n		3.ADAPTATION
\nAmbivalent
\nConformism<\/td>\n		4.DYSTOPIA
\nIndividual vs
\nNew Order<\/td>\n		5.”NEWDREAM”
\nDream
\nControl<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1. “Outside the city limits…. Ostap … beheld a crooked little log house with little windows reflecting the blue of the river … [and] a barn that seemed appropriate shelter for Antelope … [and] pondered upon the pretext for entering the little house and befriending its inhabitants.”<\/td>\nExploitation<\/td>\n<\/td>\nEscape<\/td>\nOld House, Nature<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2. “The door of the house burst open and out dashed an honorable gentleman” in his underwear and with the sideburns of a nineteenth-century privy councillor, who “mumbled …. stretching his hands to the rising sun: ‘God! God! … The very same dreams!’ …” Having circled his little house in a shuffle, “the strange gentleman … , sighing, ‘I’ll go and try again,’ disappeared through the door…. Wait[ing for] ..- the results of [the] mysterious trial\u00a0(proby]”\u00a0<\/i>did not take Ostap long.<\/td>\nEmotional Involvement, Recognition<\/td>\nRecurrent Nightmares, Grigorii, Divine Origin and Prayer<\/td>\nPersonal Code(here and on)<\/td>\nOld and Ailing Man, Bed, Nature, Culture, God<\/td>\nOrdering Dreams (Gogol, Dostoevsky,
\nOlesha)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
3. “Backing out like Boris Godunov in the last act of Mussorgsky’s opera, the old man stumbled out onto the porch. ‘Avaunt! Don’t touch me! Avaunt!’ he exclaimed with Chaliapinesque intonations in his voice. ‘That curs’d dream again!”‘<\/td>\nEmotional Involvement<\/td>\nBoris (Pushkin and Mussorgsky), Chaliapin (actor), Fixation on czars, Grigorii<\/td>\n<\/td>\nOld and Ailing Man, Culture, God<\/td>\nForbidden and Obligatory Dreams (Dostoevsky, Zamiatin, Olesha, Nabokov)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
4. “The Grand Schemer … seized the owner of the sideburns in a mighty embrace.” He declares his sympathy with the old man’s plight and generously shares with him the monarchist dreams he invents on the spot and claims to have dreamed (“A melange. The sort of thing that the newspapers call ‘News from Everywhere,’ and in the cinemas, ‘Topics of the Day,’ . . . the Mikado’s funeral…. the Anniversary of the Sushchevsk fire department . . . , His Majesty’s entry into the city of Kostroma,… Count Frederiks, the Minister of the Court, if you know what I mean?”).<\/td>\nFeigned Involvement, Recognition and Mimicry<\/td>\nInvented and Shared Dreams<\/td>\n<\/td>\nInquisitor, Prostration and Embrace, Omniscience and Identification w\/Hero<\/td>\nFaked Dreams (Dostoevsky, Bradbury, Olesha)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
5. The old man believes Bender, envies him, asks him in (“The walls were covered with portraits of gentlemen in formal attire…. officials in the Ministry of Public Instruction. The bed was in disorder, presenting convincing evidence that its owner spent there the most restless hours of his life”) and tells him his story.<\/td>\nEmotional Involvement (through the end)<\/td>\nSleep and Dreams<\/td>\n<\/td>\nOld House, Culture, Bed, Ailing Man<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
6. “Khvorob’ev hated Soviet power. He, who had once been the District Inspector of Schools, was flung to the depths of a chairmanship of the Meth- odological and Pedagogical Sector in the local Proletcult.” “He shivered in disgust at the thought of the vulgar comrades…. shock brigades, . . . the word ‘sector.”‘<\/td>\nHearing Out (here and on)<\/td>\nNarrating Dreams (here and on)<\/td>\nResistance, Compromise<\/td>\nFunctionary, Ministry, Quest, Culture, Anti-Culture and Anti-Book<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
7. “Nor could his proud soul find any solace at home.” There, too, are “the wall newspapers, [state] loans, socialist competition,” conversations about “month-long campaigns for the benefit of children and about the social significance of the play\u00a0Armored Train\u00a0<\/i>14-69. On his lonely walks he was haunted by the same realia and slogans.”<\/td>\n<\/td>\nBoris Godunov, Prince Igor<\/td>\nEscape, Resistance<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
8. “With disgust he managed to persuade the Commissariat of Education . . to grant him an old-age pension … and retired outside the city, … and tried thinking of pleasant things: Te Deums on the occasion of some august person’s nameday…. But his thoughts immediately jumped to something Soviet, unpleasant, … May Day, as well as November demonstrations…. [or] the biannual balancing of the Methodological sector’s accounts.”<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/td>\nConformity<\/td>\nOld House, Nature, Culture, Anti-Culture<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
9. “‘Soviet power took everything away from me…. But there is one sphere where the Bolsheviks cannot penetrate: the dreams that are sent down to us by God.”‘ But then he dreamed that “any minute now he was about to be expelled from [the sector’s] governing body,” and that he “was to be given an additional load [of social work]…. He wanted to run, but he couldn’t.”<\/td>\n<\/td>\nDivine Origin, Dreams and Reality, Desired and Actual Dreams, Grinev<\/td>\nEscape, Confomuty<\/td>\nIrrational, God, Quest, Invasion of Privacy (here and on)<\/td>\nDreams as Sanctuary (Gogol, Zamiatin, Nabokov)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
10. “Khvorob’ev … woke up, … prayed to God, pointing out to him that there apparently had been a regrettable hitch, as a result of which a dream intended for a high-placed and trusted comrade was sent to a wrong address. As for him, Khvorob’ev, he would like to see His Majesty the Czar’s issue from the Cathedral of the Assumption of the Holy Virgin…. But every night he was visited … by perfectly correct Soviet dreams…. The Soviet regime had invaded even the dreams of the monarchist.”<\/td>\nHearing Out<\/td>\nDivine Origin and Prayer, Recurrent Nightmares, Desired and Actual Dreams<\/td>\nResistance, Compromise, Conformity (here and on)<\/td>\n<\/td>\nMisaddressed Dreams (Olesha), Forbidden and Obligatory Dreams, and Ordering Dreams (here and on)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
11. Bender offers to help. But he explains that, since, “as the saying goes, ‘Existence determines [the nature of] consciousness,’ therefore, inasmuch as you live in a Soviet land your dreams are bound to be Soviet.” Khvorob’ev is “‘ready for anything. Let’s say, if I can’t have [the extreme right deputy of the Duma] Purishkevich, that’s OK. Let me have at least Miliukov. He is at least a university man and a monarchist at heart. But, no! Just these Soviet Anti-Christs!”‘<\/td>\nFeigned Involvement, Mockery<\/td>\nInterpretation of Dreams,Desired Dreams<\/td>\nCompromise<\/td>\nInquisitor, Omniscience, Apology of Regime, Anti-Book, Culture<\/td>\nManipulation of Dreams<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
12. Bender mentions treatment “‘according to Freud. The dream itself is no problem. The main thing is to remove the cause of the dream … [i.e.,] the very existence of Soviet power. But, for the present, I cannot remove it. I simply haven’t the time…. I have to … roll [my automobile] into your barn. As for the cause, … I’ll remove it on my way back.’ … ‘So there is hope?’ Khvorob’ev asked, shuffling after his … visitor.”<\/td>\nExploitation (here and on)<\/td>\nDreams and Reality<\/td>\nResistance<\/td>\nQuest, Book<\/td>\nCounter- manipulation of Dreams (Dostoevsky, Olesha, Orwell, Burgess)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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13. The action then switches to the chapter’s other episode (with the artists), after which it returns to the painting of the car Antelope, followed by the team’s departure, secret from Khvorob’ev. “‘I did not have the heart to awaken him. Perhaps … he is dreaming the long-awaited dream….’ But at that very minute … issued the heartrending sobs. . . . ‘That very same dream! … God! God!’ ‘Apparently he did not dream of the Metropolitan . . . , but of an extended plenum of the literary group “The Smithy and the Manor.”‘”<\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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