Chapter 8
This chapter
depicts the conversation which takes place between Professor Stravinsky and
Ivan Bezdomnyi in Professor’s clinic.
Action takes place
on the second day, approximately at that time when Stepan Likhodeev was flung
out of his flat. Ivan wakes up in Room No 117 of Professor Stravinsky’s clinic.
He names the room
where he is going to be interrogated by the doctors as ‘Factory-Kitchen’.
We notice that Ivan
has calmed down a little. He is convinced that he can’t get out of here and
hence he decides to cooperate with the doctors.
Some sarcastic
remarks that Ivan makes to himself:
When the nurse,
attending on him praises her hospital and comments that everyday foreigners and
tourists come to visit the hospital, he quips, “how much you pamper the foreigners!”
There was a general feeling of anger towards the foreigners…people did not like
to interact with them; they were angry that foreigners were given many facilities
and preferences over the Russians in the Soviet Union.
Another remark
about educated people:
When Professor
Stravinsky tries to find out in a reasonable why Ivan wanted to get the mysterious
Professor arrested, Ivan is impressed by his approach to the whole thing and he
thinks, “This man is intelligent. I must confess that sometimes you find
intelligent people among the intellectuals. You can’t deny this.”
He cooperates with
Professor Stravinsky who succeeds in convincing him that Ivan need not personally
rush to the police station to complain about the whole episode. It would be
better to give a description of the whole episode and proper action will be
taken by the authorities.
So, from an aggressive
and adamant Ivan we see a person who is in the re-conciliatory mode. This is the
middle stage of Ivan’s complete transformation. Soon we shall see a calm and
intelligent Ivan in the following chapters who comes to understand the reality
of the world in general and that of the literary world in particular!
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