The theme of love in the work of Bunin Ivan Alekseevich

2024 Author: Leah Sherlock | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 05:25

The problem of deep human feelings is very important for a writer, especially for one who feels subtly and experiences vividly. Therefore, the theme of love in Bunin's work plays a significant role. He devoted many pages of his creations to her. The true feeling and the eternal beauty of nature are often consonant and equal in the works of the writer. The theme of love in Bunin's work goes along with the theme of death. Strong feelings are not only joyful, they often disappoint a person, cause torment and anguish, which can lead to deep depression and even death.

The theme of love in Bunin's work is often associated with the theme of betrayal, because death for the writer is not only a physical condition, but also a psychological category. The one who betrayed his own or someone else's strong feelings, forever died for them, although he continues to drag out his miserable physical existence. Life without love is bland and uninteresting. But not every person is able to experience it, just as not everybeing tested by her.

An example of how the theme of love is expressed in Bunin's work can be the story "Sunstroke" (1925).

It was the sunstroke that in its strength resembled the feeling that gripped the lieutenant and the small tanned woman on the deck of the ship. He suddenly invited her to get off at the nearest pier. They went ashore together.

To describe the passionate feelings that the characters experienced when they met, the author uses the following epithets: "impulsively", "frantically"; verbs: "rushed", "suffocated". The narrator explains that their feelings were also strong because the characters had never experienced anything like this in their lives. That is, feelings are endowed with exclusivity and uniqueness.

A joint morning in a hotel is characterized as follows: sunny, hot, happy. This happiness is shaded by the ringing of bells, enlivened by a bright bazaar on the hotel square with a variety of smells: hay, tar, the complex smell of a Russian county town. Portrait of the heroine: small, a stranger, like a seventeen-year-old girl (you can roughly indicate the age of the heroine - about thirty). She is not prone to embarrassment, cheerful, simple and reasonable.

She tells the lieutenant about the eclipse, the impact. The hero does not yet understand her words, the "blow" has not yet shown its effect on him. He sees her off and returns, still "carefree and light" to the hotel, as the author says, but something is already changing in his mood.

For a gradual increase in anxietyroom description used: empty, not like this, strange, a cup of tea she had not finished drinking. The sense of loss is heightened by the still lingering scent of her English cologne. The verbs describe the growing excitement of the lieutenant: the heart sank with tenderness, he hurries to smoke, slaps himself with a stack on the tops of his boots, walks up and down the room, a phrase about a strange adventure, tears in his eyes.

Feelings are growing, they need an outlet. The hero needs to isolate himself from their source. He covers the unmade bed with a screen, closes the windows, so as not to hear now that bazaar noise, which at first he liked so much. And he suddenly wanted to death to come to the city where she lives, but realizing that this was impossible, he felt pain, horror, despair and the complete uselessness of his further life without her.

The problem of love is most clearly expressed in the forty stories of the cycle about dark alleys, which make up a whole encyclopedia of feelings. They reflect their diversity, which occupies the writer. Of course, tragedy is more common on the pages of the cycle. But the author sings of the harmony of love, fusion, inseparability of male and female principles. Like a true poet, the author is constantly looking for her, but, unfortunately, she does not always find it.

Bunin's works about love reveal to us his non-trivial approach to their description. He listens to the sounds of love, peers into her images, guesses the silhouettes, trying to recreate the fullness and gamut of the complex nuances of the relationship between a man and a woman.