CHRISTIAN MOTIFS IN THE WORKS OF I. BUNIN AND IN RUSSIAN PROSE ABOUT THE VILLAGE OF THE 1960s-1980s

Annotation

Based on the work of Ivan Bunin and the so-called village writers of the 1960s and 1980s, the article examines the spiritual and moral ties that existed between these writers, between the intentions that appear in their texts. In the course of the work, it is shown that, just as Ivan Bunin, who was forced to emigrate, far from his homeland, suffered, languished, and explicated in his work the motives of farewell, memory, and love for the past, so village writers, seemingly remaining within their native country, nevertheless they demonstrated the aggravation of the same motives in their work—the motives of saying goodbye to their native village community, to the Russian village going back in time, the motives of memory of the past and the outgoing. Thus, the objective emigration of one conditionally found continuation in the internal subjective emigration of others. Historically, different epochs, as shown in the work, actualized kindred motives imbued with deep love for the Fatherland, reliance on its past and spiritual faith in its revival.

Keywords

Ivan Bunin, village prose, motives of farewell, nostalgia, memory, external and internal emigration

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Исследование выполнено за счет гранта Российского научного фонда № 23–18–
00408, https://rscf.ru/project/23–18–00408/; Русская христианская гуманитарная академия
им. Ф. М. Достоевского