Musicology Annotation << Back To the History of an Unfulfilled Idea. Prokofiev, Meyerhold, Malraux, Eisenstein (Part II) N.P. Savkina A sketch of the synopsis of André Malraux’s novel «La condition humaine» («Man’s Fate»), made by Prokofiev in 1933, has confirmed that the composer probably planned to write music on this work. The success of the novel was stipulated by its peculiarities: recognition of absurdness of life led by the characters; the motives of revolution activities as the overcoming of human destiny; the desire for death which elevates the hero. In this paper the author studies the peculiarities of the novel’s poetics, congeneric to the nature of Prokofiev’s art, such as the reporting manner of story-telling, the propinquity to the nature of cinematography. Malraux’s novel is notable by elaborated sound palette; the repeated «stroked» phrases, typical for Prokofiev’s operas, can also be found in it. Keywords: Prokofiev, Meyerhold, Malraux, Eisen¬stein. E-mail: nsavkina@mail.ru C. 18–24