Bunin tragic love in works. Composition the theme of love in the stories of bunin
Literature
Features of the theme of love in the works of I.A. Bunin
Performed:
9th grade student
Teacher:
L.V. Markovich
1 Introduction 3
2 Main part
1) Bunin's views 6
2) "Dark alleys" 10
3) "Natalie" 12
4) "Clean Monday" 14
3 Conclusion 17
4 References 20
introduction
“Love is an intimate and deep feeling, directed towards another person, human community or idea. Love includes the impulse and the will to constancy, which takes shape in the ethical demand for fidelity. Love arises as the most free and "unpredictable" expression of the depths of the personality; it can neither be forcibly caused nor overcome ”, - this is the definition of love that the philosophical dictionary of IT Frolov gives us, but how can a person who has never experienced love, having read this definition, understand what kind of feeling it is. Of course not. Love is a feeling that cannot be defined. Each person will have his own, because love is individual and in some sense unique, reflects the unique features of the life path of each person. In addition, we can say that love is the pursuit of the ideal. When a person falls in love, his love becomes a living embodiment of an ideal that already exists for him not somewhere in the distant future, but today, now, this very minute. Having fallen in love, a person begins to see and appreciate in a loved one what sometimes others do not see and do not appreciate. Love inspires people to poetry, music, paintings. A person always thinks about love, needs it, waits for it, strives for it. And people do not have a stronger feeling than love. Neither fear, nor envy, nor malicious hatred - nothing can overcome love.
In literature, the theme of love is one of the eternal themes. An infinite number of works have been written and will be written about love.
The topic of my essay is "Features of the theme of love in the collection of stories by IA Bunin" Dark alleys "".
Bunin's stories made a strong impression on me. When you read the works of the same topic by different authors, you involuntarily compare them, note the similarities and differences. Most often it happens that the plots are different, the authors present the problem in different ways, but they see it in the same way. However, after reading Bunin's stories for the first time, I was amazed at how he not only presents, but also sees love. I discovered a completely different, unlike anything "Bunin's love". I wanted to understand, to understand Bunin's views on love, which is why I chose such a topic for my essay.
I think the theme of love is relevant, and I would like to express its relevance in the words of the Russian writer Maxim Gorky: “Life without love is not life, but existence. It is impossible to live without love, for this the soul is given to a person in order to love ”. Indeed, as long as there will be Peace on Earth, so many people will experience this great feeling - love. After reading the collection of stories "Dark Alleys", I found out that love for Bunin is the greatest happiness bestowed on a person. But eternal doom hangs over her. Love is always associated with tragedy; true love does not have a happy ending, because a person has to pay for moments of happiness. To prove this, I set myself the following tasks:
Study the biography of Bunin and his views on love.
Explore critical literature related to the topic of the abstract.
Analyze some of the stories included in the collection "Dark Alleys".
Draw conclusions and present material on this topic
Bunin's views
Ivan Alekseevich Bunin is one of the most prominent Russian writers of the twentieth century. In 1933 he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature. He was great at both poetry and prose, both short stories and novels. Speaking about Bunin, one cannot remain silent about the main circumstance of his literary and everyday life. In 1917, the social drama of the writer began, who always lived in the interests of Russia. Not understanding the October Revolution, the writer left his homeland forever in 1920. Emigration became a truly tragic milestone in Bunin's biography. Poverty, indifference was painfully borne by Ivan Alekseevich. Immeasurably sharper, however, were perceived terrible events with the coming to power of the Nazis. Bunin relentlessly followed the front, hiding people pursued by the Nazis. He saw the victory of the Russian people over the Germans. In 1945 he was happy for his Fatherland. A. Bobrenko quotes the bitter words of Ivan Alekseevich, said on March 30, 1943: “... the days pass in great monotony, in weakness and idleness. About a year and a half ago I wrote in a very short time a whole book of new stories, now only occasionally I take up the pen - my hands fall off: why and for whom to write? " We are talking here about stories published under the general title "Dark Alleys". The first version of the collection appeared in the USA in 1943. Then Bunin, also in a "short time", replenishes it and publishes it in 1946 in Paris. The work on the collection was for Bunin during the war years a source of spiritual uplift. The author himself considered the works of the collection "Dark Alleys", begun and finished
from 1937 to 1944, his highest achievement. IV Odintsova recalled “Bunin’s heated objections to the remark about his glory:“ What did this Nobel Prize - and how much I dreamed of it - bring to me? Damn shards of some kind. And did foreigners appreciate me? So I wrote my best book, Dark Alleys, and no French publisher wants to take it. " The stories of this cycle are fictional, which Bunin himself emphasized more than once. However, everything, including their retrospective form, is caused, as always in art, by the state of mind of the author AV Bakhrakh once asked: "Ivan Alekseevich, have you ever tried to make your Don Juan list?" To which Bunin replied: “Then it would be better to make a list of unused opportunities, but your tactless question awakened a swarm of memories in me. What an amazing time - youth! How many meetings, unforgettable moments! Life goes away quickly, and we begin to appreciate it only when the rest is behind. " Such moments of returning to the brightest, strongest experience are reproduced in the cycle. The mood is given to him by NP Ogarev's poem "An Ordinary Story", to which Bunin refers not very accurately, explaining the origin of his story "Dark Alleys". The collection "Dark Alleys" became the embodiment of all the writer's long-term reflections on love, which he saw everywhere, since for him this concept was very broad. He sees love in a special light. At the same time, it reflects the feelings that each person experienced. From this point of view, love is not just some special, abstract concept, but, on the contrary, is common to everyone. The main theme of the cycle becomes the theme of love, but this is no longer just love, but love that reveals the most secret corners of the human soul, love as the basis of life and as that ghostly happiness to which we all strive, but, alas, we often miss it. "Dark Alleys" is a multifaceted and diverse work. Bunin shows human relations in all its manifestations: sublime passion, quite ordinary inclinations, novels "out of nothing to do", animal manifestations of passion.
Bunin is in love with love. For him, this is the most beautiful feeling on earth, incomparable with anything else. And yet love destroys destinies. The writer never tired of repeating that all strong love avoids marriage. An earthly feeling is only a short flash in a person's life, and Bunin is trying to preserve these wonderful moments in his stories. In the collection "Dark Alleys" we will not find a single story where love would end in marriage. The lovers are separated either by their relatives, or by circumstances, or by death. It seems that death for Bunin is preferable to a long family life side by side. He shows love at its peak, but never when it fades away.
Critics have repeatedly spoken about the tragedy of Bunin's views, who combined love and death. But this is how he himself explained to I.V. Odoevtseva this motive: “Don't you yet know that love and death are inseparable? Every time I experienced a love catastrophe - and there were a lot of them, these love catastrophes in my life, or rather, almost every love of mine was a catastrophe - I was close to committing suicide. This means that the writer did not at all initially, not naturally, connected the light of life and the darkness of non-existence. But only in a catastrophic situation.
The words of one unknown philosopher are very close to the views of the writer: “Love was sought and worshiped. She was lost and not taken care of. Love does not exist, - people said, but they themselves were dying of love "
According to Bunin, love is a kind of the highest main moment of being, which illuminates a person's life, and Bunin sees in the face of love the opposition of death: if a person's life is filled with love, then it lasts longer. But for Bunin, “happy, lasting” love is not so much important, with which he simply has nothing to do, as short love is important, which, like a flash, illuminates a person's life, filling it with joyful emotions. Such love in Bunin quickly ends, but does not perish, and with this idea of love, Ivan Alekseevich Bunin writes a series of short stories under the general title "Dark Alleys". First of all, all the stories are brought together by the motive of memories of youth and homeland. All or almost all of the stories of "Dark Alley" are conducted in the past tense. Sometimes it is explicitly stated that past events are being reproduced. "At that distant time, he was spending himself especially recklessly ..." - "Tanya". “He did not sleep, lay, smoked and looked in his mind that summer” - “Rusya” “That summer I put on a student cap for the first time” - “Natalie”. In another case, the effect of the past is conveyed more subtly. For example, in "Clean
Monday "" Every evening the coachman rushed me at this hour on a stretching trotter ... "
definitely: "In the fourteenth year, on New Year's Eve, there was the same quiet, sunny evening, like that unforgettable ...". Everywhere it is about what human memory has retained.
At first glance, it may seem that all the stories are similar to each other and satisfy only such thematic divisions of the book as: love, life, death. But these themes coexist, intertwine in every story. Bunin himself marked the parts of the "Dark Alley" with Roman numerals: I, II, III, placing the stories under them, probably in a strict sequence that he knew only one. Vyacheslav Shugaev, in his book "The Experiences of a Reading Person", tried to decipher the Roman numerals in more detail, so that the connections and differences of the parts would appear more clearly. Perhaps, it can be assumed that the main motive indicated by the number I is whimsicality, whimsicality of the emergence of passion, its inappropriateness in the world around it and the obligation to pay for this inappropriateness: broken, ruined destinies. Number II - the impossibility of separation for lovers - they can
either to die, or to fill further life with the torments of memories and longing for a departed love. Number III - the inscrutability of the female soul, her gloomy, sublime, frantic service to passion. But perhaps this is not the case. Bunin's souls unite in love, so much sacrificial devotion in this union, so much frenzied tenderness in the "struggle not equal to two hearts" that love seems to overflow beyond the boundaries prepared for it by nature, and tragically extinguishes. These inexpressible heartache, caused not by a lack of love, but by its redundancy, worried Bunin most of all, as a manifestation, it is appropriate to assume, of a purely Russian understanding of feeling. For love, or rather, tormented by love, a Russian man went to the chopping block, to hard labor, shot himself, went on a spree, took monastic vows. We need zeal, akin to a religious one, in the service of love - this is what Bunin insisted on and preached in "Dark Alleys".
For the analysis, I have chosen, in my opinion, the brightest works from each part.
"Dark alleys"
This story depicts a chance meeting of people who loved each other thirty years ago. The situation is quite ordinary: the young nobleman easily parted with the serf girl Nadezhda, who was in love with him, and married a woman from his circle. And Nadezhda, having received freedom from the gentlemen, became the hostess of the inn and never got married, had no family, no children, did not recognize ordinary everyday happiness. Throughout her life she carried love to the master, who once seduced her. He is not able to rise to her high feelings, to understand why Nadezhda did not marry "with the beauty that she had." How can you love one person all your life? Meanwhile, for Nadezhda, Nikolenka remained an ideal, the only and unrepeatable for the rest of her life. “No matter how much time passed, she lived alone, she confesses to Nikolai Alekseevich. Everything passes, but not everything is forgotten ... I could never forgive you. Just as I had nothing more dear than you in the world at that time, and then it did not exist. " She could not change herself, her feelings. And Nikolai Alekseevich realized that he had lost in Nadezhda "the most precious thing he had in his life." But this is a momentary epiphany. Leaving the inn, he "with shame recalled his words and the fact that he had kissed her hand, and was immediately ashamed of his shame." And yet it was difficult for him to imagine Nadezhda as his wife, the mistress of the St. Petersburg house, the mother of his children. This gentleman attaches too much importance to class prejudices to prefer genuine feeling to them. But he paid for his cowardice with a lack of personal happiness.
How differently the heroes of the story interpret what happened to them! For Nikolai Alekseevich, this is "a vulgar ordinary story", but for Nadezhda, it is not dying memories, a long-term devotion to love.
Yes, perhaps Nadezhda is not happy now, after many years, but how strong was that feeling, how much joy it brought, that it is impossible to forget about it. That is, love for the heroine is happiness, but happiness with a constant, aching pain of memories.
"Natalie"
The love story of a first-year student Meshchersky for the young beauty Natalie Senkevich is conveyed in his memories of a long period - from the first acquaintance with a girl to her untimely death. Memory brings out the unusual, incomprehensible in the past and helps to realize it. Meshchersky was called a "monk" by his friends. He himself did not want to "violate his purity, seek love without romance." Natalie is not only not vicious, but has a proud, refined soul. They immediately fell in love with each other. And the story is about their breakup and long loneliness. There is only one external reason - an unexpectedly awakened feeling on the eve of meeting with Natalie, the young man's attraction to the bodily delights of his cousin Sonya. The internal process is very complex. As always with Bunin, all the turns of the events are barely marked. The phenomenon that interests the author is deeply comprehended in its inner development. Already at the end of the second chapter, there is a contradiction in the thoughts of the hero:
"... how can I now live in this duality - in secret meetings with Sonya and next to Natalie, the mere thought of which already engulfs me with such pure love delight." Why is there a rapprochement with Sonya? The writer reveals its external causes - a common desire among young people for early sensuality, the girl's premature female maturity, her bold and free disposition.
But the main thing is not in them. Meshchersky himself cannot tear himself away from the hot embrace. His memory keeps the intoxication of these meetings. Perfectly aware of the criminality of his dual behavior, he cannot choose one thing for himself.
Painfully unsolvable seems to the young man the question, "why did God punish me so, for which he gave me two loves at once, so different and so passionate, such a painful beauty of Natalie's adoration and such bodily rapture of Sonya." He first calls both experiences love. Only time will tell the poverty and deceit of purely physical intimacy. It was enough for Meshchersky not to see Sonya for five days, and he forgot his sensual obsession, but it happened too late. Natalie learned about the betrayal. And Natalie's long-term separation (her marriage with an unloved person, the relationship of Meshchersky himself with a peasant woman) only kindled an unquenchable high feeling, giving both of them a genuine, albeit secret and short marriage. The author cuts off the happiness of lovers with the last, as if casually mentioned, phrase of the story "In December she died in a premature birth on Lake Geneva."
The main character, and in this he differs from many, carries in his soul a rare gift of adoration of his beloved, has the ability to understand his delusions (albeit not immediately, with great losses). And yet Meshchersky was unhappy for a long time, alone, shocked by his own, so unexpected guilt.
In the story "Natalie" a new facet of the writer's artistic generalizations was opened. For the first time in Bunin's work, a person overcomes the imperfection of his consciousness, feels dissatisfaction from purely carnal pleasures, and the memory of them brings sobering up. But such an experience is rare. In the mass, other feelings prevail. Apparently, therefore, the author completes the union of Meshchersky and Natalie with her death.
"Clean Monday"
Recognition of the hero, but how impulsive they are, internally abrupt and vague. And immediately the reader understands why the Storyteller (he is unnamed, like her) everything seems to be an obsession by surprise. "How all this should end, I do not know"; “For some reason she studied at the courses ...”; “What was left for me but hope”; "... for some reason we went to Ordynka." Moreover, from the very beginning he admits that he “tried not to think, not to think out”. Only he is more open, kind, but frankly frivolous, subject to the power of chance, the elements. It was not for him to understand his girlfriend, the complete opposite of himself. The refined skill of the writer was reflected here in the fact that with the language of such a person he was able to convey the whole complex, serious nature of the heroine. Wasn't it easier to tell the story from her perspective? But then we would not have felt the exclusivity of this feminine character. “And as far as I was inclined to talkativeness, she was so silent: she kept thinking something, as if she was delving into something in her mind” - this is the first impression of the mysterious woman. The contradictory nature of her behavior is immediately caught: mockery of abundant food, luxury and participation in lunches and dinners "with a Moscow understanding of the matter"; irony over theatrical and other tinsel and constant secular entertainment; acceptance of a man's daring caresses and refusal to seriously talk about their relationship. "I did not oppose anything, but I was silent all the time." The hidden attractions of the heroine also suddenly shocked the fan. They spent every evening in the best restaurants in Moscow, taking advantage of their wealth, youth, striking everyone with their rare beauty. And then, at her suggestion, we ended up in the Novodevichy Convent. It turned out that she goes to the Rogozhskoye cemetery, where the flavor of pre-Petrine Russia is so strong, to the Kremlin cathedrals, to the Cathedral of Christ the Savior, and is carried away by ancient Russian texts.
The author expands his impressions of this internally contradictory nature of the heroine by referring to the capital's no less disparity. Moscow of those years, indeed, was a combination of the hoary antiquity of monasteries and cathedrals with the latest cultural achievements: the Art Theater, the work of the Symbolists, the works of L. Andreev, the translated works of Spitsler. The realities of such a variegated environment are unobtrusively included in the narrative. Unobtrusive, because the inner gaze of the heroine is directed to these contradictions. The writer speaks not so much about the intellectual development of this strange woman, but about the struggle in her soul of different aspirations. It is not for nothing that V. Brusov is mentioned with his novel "The Fiery Angel", which is not devoid of vulgarity. Pshibyshevsky, who opposed the "old" morality, "drunken" skits: And on the other hand, the Orthodox monasteries, finally, the heroine uttered the words of the Russian legend: "And the Devil instilled a flying serpent to his wife for fornication. And this serpent appeared to her in human nature, very beautiful ... "This is the peak of the collision of opposites:" permissiveness ", vulgarity of pleasures and suppression of the flesh, asceticism, purification of the spirit. It is these incompatible motives that a woman unites in her being. Once again, the subtext expresses the dream of merging the healthy needs of human happiness with the highest spiritual beauty. A dream that goes back to the ideal of love.
The heroine, however, believes the wisdom of Tolstoy's Platon Karataev: “Our happiness, my friend, is like water in delirium: if you pull it out, it’s puffed up, but when you pull it out, there’s nothing.” Nevertheless, she tries to "drink" her share of joy.
In a kaleidoscope of changing pictures: a restaurant, an evening living room, the Novodevichy cemetery, Egorov's tavern, a skits of the Art Theater - the heroine's decision of the story sprouts in separate "grains": from a grin at the talkativeness of her admirer, to submission to his caresses, to exclaiming: "True, how are you me love! ”, to admire him,“ extremely beautiful ”, to the last step - to share his passion. But, apparently, she received little from that night, in the morning she left for the monastery forever. And there she did not find peace - she continued to yearn.
What is the heroine of the story "Clean Monday" purified from? It seems clear - from the idle worldly life. Then why, after “Forgiven Sunday”, does she find herself in the arms of a man? No, there were other sins behind her: pride, contempt for people. She wanted to believe them and her feminine strength, to love the best she met on the path of life. And she couldn't. The story is written with unusual conciseness and masterly depiction. Each stroke, color, detail plays an important role in the external movement of the plot and becomes a sign of some internal tendencies (which is the heroine's last black-velvet secular outfit in combination with the Shamakhan queen's hairstyle). In vague forebodings and mature thoughts, in the bright changeable appearance of this woman, the author embodied his ideas about the contradictory atmosphere, about the complex layers of the human soul, about the birth of some new moral ideal. It is not surprising that Bunin considered Clean Monday the best story in the collection.
Conclusion
In the theme of love, Bunin is revealed as a man of amazing talent, a subtle psychologist who knows how to convey the state of the soul, which is wounded by love. The writer does not avoid difficult, frank topics, portraying the most intimate human experiences in his stories. Over the centuries, many artists of the word dedicated their works to the great feeling of love, and each of them found something unique, individual in this topic. It follows from my work that the peculiarity of Bunin as an artist lies in the fact that he considers love to be a tragedy, a catastrophe, madness, a great feeling, capable of both infinitely exalting and destroying a person. Also, Bunin especially sees the images of the heroes of his stories.
The image of a woman is that attractive force that constantly attracts Bunin. He creates a gallery of such images, in each story his own. The writer addresses the fates of completely different women. Social status ceases to matter when feelings come into play. Woman is inseparable from nature. It is almost always connected to the forest, to the field, to the sea, to the clouds. She is part of it and therefore, apparently, is endowed with such a spontaneous, uncontrollable force as wind, lightning, flooding. Perhaps, under the influence of this force, so much mental anguish was brought into the "Dark Alleys"? all the images are amazing, it seems that the author is in love with each of them. All the feelings that these women experience have a right to exist. Let this be the first bright love, passion for an unworthy person, a feeling of revenge, lust for worship. And it is absolutely all the same whether you are a peasant or a lady. The main thing is that you are a woman.
Male images in Bunin's stories are somewhat darkened, blurred, characters are not too definite. In almost all the stories, the man is the same: ardent, mentally vigilant, full of compassion for a woman and somewhat contemplative - such should be a man who is worthy of love and finds it. Bunin deliberately does not endow him with a characteristic uniqueness, so that she does not interfere with the hero in all love searches and adventures from being heartfelt, sensually observant and tirelessly admiring a woman, worshiping her spiritual secrets. It is important for the writer to figure out what feelings these men have, what pushes them towards women, why they love them. The reader does not need to know what a particular man is like, what he looks like, what his advantages and disadvantages. He participates in the story insofar as love is a feeling of two.
Love is a mysterious element that transforms a person's life, gives his fate a unique flavor against the background of ordinary everyday stories, fills his earthly existence with a special meaning. Yes, love has many faces and is often inexplicable. This is an eternal mystery, and each reader of Bunin's works is looking for his own answers, reflecting on the secrets of love. The perception of this feeling is personal, and therefore someone will treat what is depicted in the book as a "vulgar story", and someone will be shocked by the great gift of love, which, like the talent of a writer, is by no means given to everyone. Every young person will find in Bunin's works something consonant with his own thoughts and feelings, and will touch the great mystery of love. This is what makes the author of "Dark Alley", always a modern writer, arousing deep reader interest. Readers may sometimes ask the question: does the writer create artificial obstacles on the path of heroes to happiness? No, the point is that people themselves do not strive to fight. They can experience happiness, but only for a moment, and then it leaves like water in sand. And that is why many of Bunin's stories are so tragic. Sometimes, in one short line, the writer reveals the collapse of hopes, the harsh ridicule of fate. The stories of the cycle "Dark Alleys" are an example of amazing Russian psychological prose, in which love has always been one of the eternal secrets that the artists of the word tried to reveal. Ivan Alekseevich Bunin, in my opinion, was one of those brilliant writers who came closest to solving this mystery.
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The theme of love occupies the main position in the work of Ivan Alekseevich Bunin. She has a special role in his works. Ivan Alekseevich Bunin shows that love is not only happiness, joy, but also pain, betrayal and disappointment. This high human feeling brings chaos and anxiety to people's lives. Assuming the main role in his stories of love, Bunin repeatedly emphasizes that it is inextricably linked with tragedy, that one cannot be without the other.
Each hero of Bunin's work goes through a story, after which he will never be able to return to his former life.
In the story "Sunstroke" Ivan Alekseevich shows us the love that suddenly flares up between two people. Yielding to feelings, the main characters spend the night together. They confess to each other that they have never experienced anything like it before, that this meeting is like a sunstroke for them. However, this love story does not receive a continuation. The woman leaves, having said goodbye to the main character forever, leaving him neither a name nor an address. At first, the main character perceives this meeting as casual and non-binding. However, over time, he begins to feel a spiritual emptiness, to experience a feeling of bereavement. He tries to fight his condition, performs some actions, perfectly aware of their absurdity and uselessness. He is ready to give everything, even his own life, for one more day spent with this beautiful stranger. At the end of the story, he, sitting under a canopy on the deck, feels ten years older. With this work, Ivan Alekseevich Bunin shows us that love is a sunstroke, a great shock that can radically change a person's life, in an instant make him the happiest or most unhappy.
We can observe a completely different love in the story "Dark Alleys". The plot is based on the meeting of two people, Nadezhda and Nikolai Alekseevich, who loved each other dearly in their distant youth. All this, it would seem, was a long time ago, a whole life has passed since then, and everyone has their own. Nikolai Alekseevich got married, but did not find happiness: his wife was unfaithful and soon left him. Surprisingly, Nadezhda did not have a husband
Although she was a stately woman. Her feelings for Nikolai Alekseevich were so strong and pure that to change him means to change herself. She managed to carry love to him throughout her life. However, Nadezhda is unable to forgive Nikolai's betrayal. For the betrayal of his beloved, he later paid off with his ruined personal life.
In his stories, Ivan Alekseevich Bunin "painted" different kinds of love: all-consuming, sudden and unexpected, tragic and sacrificial. For Bunin, love cannot be combined with everyday life. The routine is killing her. That is why all Bunin's heroes are happy and unhappy at the same time.
At all times, the theme of love was the main one, many writers praised the relationship between a man and a woman. Ivan Alekseevich was no exception, in many stories he writes about love. Love is the purest and brightest feeling in the world. The theme of love is eternal in any era.
In the works of Bunin, the writer describes the intimate and secret what is happening between two people. Ivan Alekseevich's work can be divided into periods. So the collection "Dark Alleys" written during World War II is completely devoted to love. The collection contains so much love and warm feelings, it is simply filled with love.
Bunin believes that love is a great feeling, even if this love is unrequited. The writer believes that any love has a right to life. Also, after reading the stories of Ivan Alekseevich, you can see that love in his works goes next to death. He draws the line, as it were, that death can be behind a great light feeling.
In some of his stories, Bunin writes that love is not always beautiful and sunny, and maybe the love story will end tragically. So, for example, in the story "Sunstroke" his heroes meet on a steamer, where a wonderful feeling flares up between them. The girl in love tells the lieutenant that the feeling that came to them was like a sunstroke that overshadowed their minds. She says that she has never experienced anything like this and is unlikely to ever experience it. Unfortunately, the lieutenant realizes very late how much he fell in love with the girl, because he did not even recognize her first name and where she lives.
The lieutenant was ready to die for another day spent with the girl he loved so much. Feelings overwhelmed him, but they were large and bright.
In another story, Bunin describes the unrequited love of a young guy for a girl who pays no attention to him. Nothing pleases the girl and does not even make the boy's love happy. At the end of the novel, she leaves for a monastery, where it seems to her that she will acquire happiness.
In another story, Ivan Alekseevich writes about a triangle in which a guy cannot choose between passion and love. The whole story he rushes between the girls and everything ends tragically.
In the works of Bunin, where he writes about love, all aspects of this feeling are described. After all, love is not only joy and happiness, but also suffering and sorrow. Love is a great feeling that you often have to fight for.
Composition The theme of love in the work of Bunin
The theme of love has always been and is an integral part of any work. IA Bunin revealed it especially vividly in his stories. The writer described love as a tragic and deep feeling, he tried to reveal to the reader all the secret corners of this strong attraction.
In Bunin's works, such as "Dark Alleys", "Cold Autumn", "Sunstroke" love is shown from several sides. On the one hand, this feeling, capable of bringing great happiness, on the other, a bright and ardent feeling inflicts deep wounds on the soul of a person, delivers only days of suffering.
For the author, love was not just a naive feeling, it was strong and real, often accompanied by tragedy, and in some moments by death. The theme of love, in different ways suitable for his creative path, was revealed from different sides. At the beginning of his work, Bunin described love between young people as something light, natural and open. She is beautiful and gentle, but at the same time, she can be disappointing. For example, in the story "Dawn All Night", he describes the strong love of a simple girl for a young man. She is ready to give all her youth and soul to a loved one, to completely dissolve in him. But reality can be cruel, and as often happens, falling in love passes and a person begins to look at many things differently. And in this work, he clearly describes the breakdown of a relationship that brought only pain and disappointment.
At a certain period of his time, Bunin emigrated from Russia. It was at this time that love for him became a mature and deep feeling. He began to write about her with sadness and longing, recalling his past years of life. This is clearly reflected in the novel "Mitya's Love" written by him in 1924. At first everything goes well, the feelings are strong and reliable, but later they will lead the main character to death. Bunin wrote not only about the mutual love of two young people, but in some of his works one can also find a love triangle: "The Caucasus" and "The Most Beautiful Sun". The happiness of some inevitably brings heartache and disappointment to the third.
Love played a special role in his great work, "Dark Alleys", written during the war years. In it, she is displayed as a great happiness, despite the fact that in the end it ends in tragedy. The love of two people who met each other already in adulthood is shown in the story "Sunstroke". It was during this period of life that they so needed to experience this true feeling. The love of a lieutenant and a mature woman was doomed in advance and could not unite them for life. But after parting, she left in their hearts the sweet bitterness of pleasant memories.
In all his stories, Bunin praises love, its difference and contradictions. If there is love, a person becomes infinitely sienna, the true beauty of his inner world, values in relation to a loved one, is manifested. Love in Bunin's understanding is a true, selfless, pure feeling, even if, after a sudden outburst and attraction, it can lead to tragedy and deep disappointment.
Several interesting compositions
- The main main idea of the story The man on Leskov's watch
When reading a story, thoughts about life rules arise. They were created to facilitate the existence of people. But it happens that there may be a bust with the rules. Thus, the rule can become more important than the person himself.
- Composition based on the painting by Belokovskaya Portrait of a son, grade 7 (description)
- The story of Masha Troekurova essay for grade 6
By the age of seventeen, Masha became a real beauty. The girl did not have friends, she loved to spend time in the library reading novels.
- Onufriy Negodyaev in the History of one city
This character served in the administration of a city called Foolov, his career did not work out, he brought only devastation to the settlement he ruled. Negodyaev himself was born into an ordinary family of peasants, he helped the stoker to heat the stoves.
- Composition Description of the painting Dinner of the tractor drivers Plastov
An interesting feature is the rather sketchy image of the sky and the background landscape, which have almost no detail. In particular, the sky is almost monotonous and the blue is separated by an even stripe.
Love in the work of Bunin
Bunin is a unique creative personality in the history of Russian literature at the end of the 19th - first half of the 20th century. His genius talent, the skill of a poet and prose writer, which has become a classic, amazed his contemporaries and conquers us now living. In his works, the real Russian literary language is preserved, which is now lost.
A great place in the work of Bunin in emigration is occupied by works of love. The writer has always been worried about the mystery of this strongest of human feelings. In 1924 he wrote the story “Mitya's Love”, the next year - “The Case of Kornet Elagin” and “Sunstroke”. And at the end of the 30s and during the Second World War, Bunin created 38 small stories about love, which made up his book "Dark Alleys", published in 1946. Bunin considered this book to be his "best work in terms of compactness, painting and literary skill. ”.
Love in the image of Bunin amazes not only with the power of artistic depiction, but also with its subordination to some internal laws unknown to man. They rarely break through to the surface: most people will not experience their fatal impact until the end of their days. Such a depiction of love unexpectedly gives the sober, “merciless” talent of Bunin a romantic glow. The closeness of love and death, their conjugation were obvious facts for Bunin, never doubted. However, the catastrophic nature of being, the fragility of human relations and existence itself - all these favorite Bunin themes after the gigantic social cataclysms that shook Russia, were filled with a new formidable meaning, as, for example, can be seen in the story "Mitya's Love". "Love is beautiful" and "Love is doomed" - these concepts, finally combining, coincided, carrying in the depths, in the grain of each story, the personal grief of Bunin the emigrant.
Bunin's love lyrics are not great in quantity. It reflects the confused thoughts and feelings of the poet about the secret of love ... One of the main motives of love lyrics is loneliness, inaccessibility or impossibility of happiness. For example, “How light, how elegant is spring! ..”, “Calm gaze, like the gaze of a deer ...”, “At a late hour, we were with her in the field ...”, “Loneliness”, “Sadness of eyelashes, shining and black ...” and etc.
Bunin's love lyrics are passionate, sensual, saturated with a thirst for love and are always full of tragedy, unfulfilled hopes, memories of past youth and departed love.
I.A. Bunin has a very peculiar view of love relationships that distinguishes him from many other writers of that time.
In Russian classical literature of that time, the theme of love has always occupied an important place, and preference was given to spiritual, "platonic" love
before sensuality, carnal, physical passion, which was often debunked. The purity of Turgenev's women has become a household name. Russian literature is predominantly "first love" literature.
The image of love in Bunin's work is a special synthesis of spirit and flesh. According to Bunin, it is impossible to comprehend the spirit without knowing the flesh. I. Bunin defended in his works a pure attitude to the carnal and bodily. He did not have the concept of female sin, as in Anna Karenina, War and Peace, Kreutzer Sonata by L.N. Tolstoy, there was no wary, hostile attitude towards the feminine principle characteristic of N.V. Gogol, but there was no vulgarization of love. His love is an earthly joy, a mysterious attraction of one sex to another.
The theme of love and death (often in contact with Bunin) is devoted to works - "The Grammar of Love", "Light Breathing", "Mitya's Love", "Caucasus", "In Paris", "Galya Ganskaya", "Henry", "Natalie", "Cold Autumn" and others. It has long been and very rightly noted that love in Bunin's work is tragic. The writer is trying to unravel the mystery of love and the mystery of death, why they often touch in life, what is the meaning of this. Why the nobleman Khvoshchinsky goes crazy after the death of his beloved peasant Lushka and then almost deifies her image ("The Grammar of Love"). Why does the young schoolgirl Olya Meshcherskaya, who, as it seemed to her, an amazing gift of "light breathing", die, just beginning to flourish? The author does not answer these questions, but with his works he makes it clear that this has a certain meaning of human earthly life.
The complex emotional experiences of the hero of the story "Mitya's Love" are described with brilliance and tremendous psychological stress by Bunin. This story caused controversy, the writer was reproached for excessive descriptions of nature, for the implausibility of Mitya's behavior. But we already know that Bunin's nature is not a background, not a decoration, but one of the main characters, and especially in Mitya's Love. Through the depiction of the state of nature, the author surprisingly faithfully conveys Mitya's feelings, his mood and experiences.
You can call “Mitya's love” a psychological story, in which the author accurately and truly embodied Mitya's troubled feelings and the tragic end of his life.
An encyclopedia of love dramas can be called "Dark Alley" - a book of stories about love. “She talks about the tragic and about many tender and beautiful things, - I think this is the best and most original thing that I have written in my life ...” - Bunin confessed to Teleshov in 1947.
The heroes of "Dark Alley" do not resist nature, often their actions are absolutely illogical and contrary to generally accepted morality (an example of this is the sudden passion of the heroes in the story "Sunstroke"). Bunin's love “on the brink” is almost a violation of the norm, going beyond the ordinary. For Bunin, this immorality even, one might say, is a certain sign of the authenticity of love, since ordinary morality, like everything established by people, turns out to be a conventional scheme, into which the elements of natural, living life do not fit.
When describing risky details related to the body, when the author must be impartial so as not to cross the fragile line separating art from pornography, Bunin, on the contrary, worries too much - to a spasm in his throat, to a passionate tremor: “... it just went dark in her eyes at the sight of her pinkish body with a tan on shiny shoulders ... her eyes turned black and widened even more, her lips parted feverishly ”(“ Galya Ganskaya ”). For Bunin, everything related to gender is pure and significant, everything is covered with mystery and even holiness.
As a rule, the happiness of love in "Dark Alley" is followed by parting or death. The heroes revel in closeness, but
it leads to separation, death, murder. Happiness cannot last forever. Natalie "died in a premature birth on Lake Geneva." Galya Ganskaya was poisoned. In the story "Dark Alleys" the master Nikolai Alekseevich abandons the peasant girl Nadezhda - for him this story is vulgar and ordinary, and she loved him "all century." In the story "Rusya" the lovers are separated by the hysterical mother of Rus.
Bunin only allows his heroes to taste the forbidden fruit, enjoy it - and then deprives them of happiness, hope, joys, even life. The hero of the story "Natalie" loved two at once, but did not find family happiness with either one. In the story "Heinrich" there is an abundance of female images for every taste. But the hero remains alone and free from the "wives of men."
Bunin's love does not pass into the family mainstream, it is not allowed by a happy marriage. Bunin deprives his heroes of eternal happiness, deprives them because they get used to him, and the habit leads to the loss of love. Habitual love cannot be better than lightning love, but sincere. The hero of the story "Dark Alleys" cannot tie himself in family ties with the peasant woman Nadezhda, but by marrying another woman of his own circle, he does not acquire family happiness. The wife was unfaithful, the son is a wretch and a scoundrel, the family itself turned out to be "the most ordinary vulgar story." However, despite its short duration, love still remains eternal: it is eternal in the memory of the hero precisely because it is fleeting in life.
A distinctive feature of love in Bunin's depiction is a combination of seemingly incompatible things. It is no coincidence that Bunin once wrote in his diary: “And again, again, such indescribable - sweet sadness from that eternal deception of another spring, hopes and love for the whole world that you want with tears
gratitude kiss the ground. Lord, Lord, why are you torturing us so?
The strange connection between love and death is constantly emphasized by Bunin, and therefore it is no coincidence that the title of the collection "Dark Alleys" does not mean "shady" here at all - these are dark, tragic, tangled labyrinths of love.
G. Adamovich rightly wrote about the book of stories “Dark Alleys”: “All love is a great happiness, a“ gift of the gods ”, even if it is not shared. That is why Bunin's book breathes with happiness, because it is imbued with gratitude to life, to the world in which, with all its imperfections, this happiness happens. "
True love is great happiness, even if it ends in separation, death, tragedy. To this conclusion, even if it is late, many Bunin heroes come who have lost, overlooked or themselves destroyed their love. In this late repentance, late spiritual resurrection, the enlightenment of the heroes lies that all-purifying melody, which speaks both of the imperfection of people who have not yet learned to live, recognize and cherish real feelings, and about the imperfection of life itself, social conditions, environment, circumstances that often hinder truly human relationships, and most importantly - about those high emotions that leave an unfading trail of spiritual beauty, generosity, devotion and purity.
Love is a mysterious element that transforms a person's life, gives his fate uniqueness against the background of ordinary everyday stories, fills his earthly existence with a special meaning.
This mystery of being becomes the theme of Bunin's story "The Grammar of Love" (1915). The hero of the work, a certain Ivlev, stopping on the way to the house of the recently deceased landowner Khvoshchinsky, reflects on “incomprehensible love, which has transformed an entire human life into some kind of ecstatic life, which, perhaps, should have been the most ordinary life”, if not for the strange charm of the maid Lushki. It seems to me that the mystery lies not in the appearance of Lushka, who “was not at all good herself,” but in the character of the landowner himself, who idolized his beloved. “But what kind of person was this Khvoshchinsky? Crazy or just some kind of stunned, all focused on one soul? " According to the landlord neighbors. Khvoshchinsky “had a reputation in the district for a rare clever girl. And suddenly this love fell on him, this Lushka, then her unexpected death - and everything went to pieces: he shut himself up in the house, in the room where Lushka lived and died, and spent more than twenty years on her bed ... ”How can you call is this twenty years of seclusion? Insanity? For Bunin, the answer to this question is not at all unambiguous.
The fate of Khvoshchinsky strangely bewitches and worries Ivlev. He understands that Lushka has entered his life forever, awakened in him “a complex feeling, similar to what he once experienced in one Italian town when looking at the relics of a saint”. What made Ivlev buy from the heir of Khvoshchinsky "for a high price" a small book "Grammar of Love", which the old landowner did not part with, cherishing the memories of Lushka? Ivlev would like to understand what the life of a madman in love was filled with, what his orphaned soul ate for many years. And after the hero of the story, the “grandchildren and great-grandchildren”, who have heard “a voluptuous legend about the hearts of those who loved,” will try to reveal the secret of this inexplicable feeling, and along with them the reader of Bunin's work.
An attempt to understand the nature of love feelings by the author and in the story "Sunstroke" (1925). “A strange adventure”, shakes the soul of the lieutenant. After parting with a beautiful stranger, he cannot find peace. At the thought of the impossibility of meeting this woman again, “he felt such pain and the uselessness of his entire future life without her that he was seized by horror and despair”. The author convinces the reader of the seriousness of the feelings experienced by the hero of the story. The lieutenant feels "terribly unhappy in this city." "Where to go? What to do?" he thinks, lost. The depth of the hero's spiritual insight is clearly expressed in the final phrase of the story: "The lieutenant was sitting under a canopy on the deck, feeling ten years older." How to explain what happened to him? Maybe the hero came into contact with that great feeling that people call love, and the feeling of the impossibility of loss led him to the realization of the tragedy of being?
The torment of a loving soul, the bitterness of loss, the sweet pain of memories - love leaves such unhealed wounds in the fates of the Bunin heroes, and time has no power over it.
The story "Dark Alleys" (1935) depicts a chance meeting of people who loved each other thirty years ago. The situation is quite ordinary: the young nobleman easily parted with the serf girl Nadezhda, who was in love with him, and married a woman of his circle. And Nadezhda, having received freedom from the gentlemen, became the hostess of the inn and never got married, had no family, no children, did not recognize ordinary everyday happiness. “No matter how much time passed, I lived alone,” she confesses to Nikolai Alekseevich. “Everything passes, but not everything is forgotten.… I could never forgive you. Just as I had nothing more dear than you in the world at that time, so then it did not exist. " She could not change herself, her feelings. And Nikolai Alekseevich realized that he had lost in Nadezhda "the most precious thing that he had in his life." But this is a momentary epiphany. Leaving the inn, he "with shame recalled his last words and the fact that he had kissed her hand, and was immediately ashamed of his shame." And yet it is difficult for him to imagine Nadezhda as his wife, the mistress of the Petegbug house, the mother of his children ... This gentleman attaches too much importance to class prejudices to prefer genuine feeling to them. But he paid for his cowardice with a lack of personal happiness.
How differently the heroes of the story interpret what happened to them! For Nikolai Alekseevich, this is “a vulgar, ordinary story,” but for Nadezhda, it is not dying memories, a long-term devotion to love.
A passionate and deep feeling permeates the last, fifth book of the novel "Life of Arseniev" - "Lika". It was based on the transformed experiences of Bunin himself, his youthful love for V.V. Pashchenko. In the novel, death and oblivion recede before the power of love, before the heightened feeling - of the hero and the author - of life.
In the theme of love, Bunin is revealed as a man of amazing talent, a subtle psychologist who knows how to convey a state of mind wounded by love. The writer does not avoid complex, frank topics, depicting the most intimate human experiences in his stories. Over the centuries, many artists of the word have dedicated their works to the great feeling of love, and each of them found something unique, individual to this topic. It seems to me that the peculiarity of Bunin the artist is that he considers love to be a tragedy, a catastrophe, madness, a great feeling, capable of both infinitely exalting and destroying a person.
Yes, love has many faces and is often inexplicable. This is an eternal mystery, and each reader of Bunin's works is looking for his own answers, reflecting on the secrets of love. The perception of this feeling is very personal, and therefore someone will treat what is depicted in the book as a "vulgar story", while someone will be shocked by the great gift of love, which, like the talent of a poet or musician, is not given to everyone. But one thing is certain: Bunin's stories, telling about the most intimate, will not leave readers indifferent. Each young person will find in Bunin's works something consonant with his own thoughts and feelings, and will touch the great mystery of love. This is what makes the author of Sunstroke, always a modern writer, arousing deep reader interest.
Literature Abstract
Topic: "The theme of love in the works of Bunin"
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Moscow 2004
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2. SN Morozov - “The Life of Arseniev. Stories "
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Love in the work of Bunin Bunin is a unique creative person in the history of Russian literature at the end of the XIX - first half of the X Ivan Alekseevich Bunin stands out among Russian writers and poets. This is, of course, no coincidence. The future writer received an excellent education.His creative activity began in his early years, when the boy was only 8 years old. The son of a noble family was born in the city of Voronezh in October 1870. He received his first education at home, and at the age of 11 little Ivan became a pupil of the Yelets district gymnasium, where he studied for only 4 years.
Further training was carried out under the watchful guidance of an older brother. The boy studied the works of Russian and world classics with particular interest. In addition, Ivan devoted a lot of time to self-development. Literature has always interested Bunin, and from childhood the boy determined his destiny. This choice was quite deliberate.
Ivan Bunin wrote his first poem at the age of eight, and serious works appeared a little later, when the young talent had barely reached seventeen. In the same period, he made his first printed love debut.
When Ivan was 19 years old, the family moved to the city of Orel. Here the future writer and poet began to engage in correctional work in a local newspaper. This activity brought young Bunin not only his first experience, but also his first true love. His chosen one was Varvara Pashchenko, she worked in the same publishing house. The office romance was not approved by Ivan's parents, so the young lovers had to leave the city, to Poltava. But even there, the couple failed to build relationships similar to family ones. This union, so disagreeable to parents on both sides, fell apart. But the author carried many personal experiences throughout his life and showed them in his works.
The first collection of poems was published in 1891, when the writer turned 21 years old. A little later, the country saw other masterpieces of the young poet, each verse was filled with special warmth and tenderness.
Love for Barbara inspired the young poet, each of his poems mentally conveyed the sincere feelings of two loving hearts. When the relationship broke up, the young writer met the daughter of a famous revolutionary, Anna Tsakni, who in 1898 became his legal wife.
In this marriage, Ivan Alekseevich had a son, but the child died at the age of five, and soon, the young couple parted. Literally a year later, the poet began to cohabit with Vera Muromtseva, but only in 1922 the couple officially married.
Ivan Alekseevich Bunin was a famous poet, translator and prose writer. He traveled a lot, and these trips endowed the talented person with new knowledge, which he inspiredly used in his poetry and prose.
In the 1920s, he had to emigrate to France. This was a forced measure justified by the socio-political situation in Russia. In a foreign country, he continued to write and publish non-fiction articles of interesting content, compose new poems on the topic of love and just live, because he was no longer destined to return to his homeland.
In 1933, Ivan Alekseevich was awarded the Nobel Prize. He was given a monetary reward for the development of Russian classical prose. This money solved many of the problems of the impoverished nobleman. And Bunin transferred part of the money as assistance to emigrants and needy writers.
Bunin survived the Second World War. He was proud of the courage and deeds of the Russian soldiers, whose courage allowed him to win this terrible battle. This was the most significant event for every person, and the famous writer could not help reacting to such great deeds of our people.
The great Russian poet, the last classic who glorified Russia of the XIX-XX centuries in his works, died in 1953 in Paris.
In many of Bunin's works, the theme of great love and tragedy was openly touched upon. A man who has lived for more than one year with different women was able to extract from these relationships a lot of frank feelings, which he managed to convey in detail in his work.
Ivan Alekseevich's striking works do not leave indifferent any reader. They reveal the whole secret of true love, singing excellent images of women and the human soul. He conveys to the reader sincere love and hatred, tenderness and rudeness, happiness and tears of sorrow ...
All these feelings are familiar to many romantics, because love never brings exceptionally pleasant emotions. A real relationship is built on different sensations that are experienced by two lovers, and if they can endure all the trials sent by fate, real happiness, love and fidelity await them.
This essence was captured by the writer during the period of love relations with his civil, and afterwards, his legal wife, Vera Muromtseva.
Ivan Alekseevich wrote many works dedicated to love and devotion: "Mitya's love", "Light breath", "Dark alleys" (collection of stories) and other works.
"Sunstroke" - a story of passion
An atypical attitude to love is captured in Bunin's famous story "Sunstroke". The slightly mundane and somewhat ordinary plot turned out to be fascinating for the reader.In this work, the main character is a young and pretty woman who is legally married. During a road trip, she meets a young lieutenant who was famous for his addiction to fleeting romances. He is a selfish and self-confident young man.
The acquaintance with a married woman aroused an instinctive interest in the lieutenant. He knew practically nothing about her, only that she had a beloved husband and a little daughter who was expecting her mother to return from Anapa. The young officer managed to arouse interest in his person, and their casual acquaintance ended in an intimate relationship in a hotel room. In the morning, the travelers parted and never met again.
It would seem that this is where the love story ended, but the main meaning of the work, which Ivan Bunin wanted to convey to the reader, is revealed in subsequent events.
A married lady, after waking up in a hotel room, hastened to leave for her hometown, and at parting, she said to the casual lover the mysterious phrase "it was something like a sunstroke." What did she mean?
The reader can independently draw a conclusion. Perhaps the young woman was afraid of continuing the relationship with her lover. At home, a large family, a child, marital duties and life were waiting for her. Or maybe she was inspired by this night of love? A gentle and sudden connection with a stranger's man radically changed the well-established lifestyle of a young lady and left only pleasant memories that will become the brightest moment in her everyday life?
The protagonist of the work also experiences extraordinary feelings. A young and rather sophisticated lover experienced unknown feelings on the night of love with a charming stranger. This chance meeting radically changed his life, only now he realized what true love is. This wonderful feeling brought him pain and suffering, now, after a single night with a married woman, he could not imagine his future without her. His heart was filled with sadness, all thoughts were about his beloved, but such a stranger ...
The writer presented the feeling of love as carnal and spiritual harmony. Having found it, the soul of the protagonist seemed to be reborn.
Bunin appreciated sincere and true love, but he always exalted this magical feeling as temporary happiness, often with a tragic end.
In another work by Ivan Alekseevich, called "Mitya's Love", we know similar feelings, filled with the torments of jealousy of the main character. Mitya was seriously in love with the beautiful girl Catherine, but, by the will of fate, they faced a long separation. The guy went crazy, unable to withstand the agonizing days of waiting. His love was sensual and sublime, truly spiritual and special. Carnal feelings were secondary, because, as you know, physical love cannot bring true romance of sincere happiness and peace.
The heroine of this story, Katya, was seduced by another person. Her betrayal was tearing Mitya's soul apart. He tried to find love on the side, but these attempts could not soothe the pain in the heart of the young man in love.
Once, he had a date with another girl, Alena, but the meeting brought only disappointment. Her words and actions simply destroyed the romantic world of the protagonist, their physiological relationship was perceived by Mitya as something vulgar and dirty.
Terrible mental anguish, pain from hopelessness, from the inability to change your fate and return your beloved woman, gave rise to an idea that, as it seemed to the main character, was the only way out of this situation. Mitya decided to commit suicide ...
Ivan Bunin boldly criticized love, showing it to the reader in a variety of situations. His work leaves a special mark in the mind of the reader. After reading another story, you can think about the meaning of life, reconsider your attitude to seemingly ordinary things, which are now beginning to be perceived in a completely different light.
Quite an impressive story "Light Breathing" tells about the fate of a young girl Olga Meshcherskaya. From an early age she believes in true and sincere love, but soon, the heroine will face a harsh reality filled with pain and human egoism.
The young lady is inspired by the world around her, she sees her soul mate in her interlocutor, completely trusting the hypocritical words of a vile deceiver who has fallen for an inexperienced and very young girl. This man is already in adulthood, so he quickly managed to seduce Olga, who had never been conquered before. This inhuman and treacherous attitude aroused disgust in the young heroine for herself, for the people around her and the whole world.
The tragic story ends with a scene in the cemetery, where among the grave flowers the cheerful and still alive eyes of the young beauty Olga are clearly visible in the photograph ...
Love is a strange feeling, experienced in different ways. It brings incredible joy and happiness, and then, abruptly changes its direction and transports the man in love into the world of terrible pain, disappointment and tears ...
This topic was rather clearly sung in his intriguing, and often tragic works, Ivan Alekseevich Bunin. To be imbued with the love experiences and passion of the main characters, you need to independently read the stories of the great Russian writer and poet, who gave the world many magnificent creative masterpieces on the theme of love!