Ivan Bunin, whose stories enter the schoolprogram to study Russian literature, began to create in the late 19 th century, in the 80 years. He is from a galaxy of writers who grew up in a gentry manor house, closely connected with the picturesque nature of the Central Russian strip. For the work on the collection of lyrics "Listopad", dedicated to the countryside, its natural beauty, Ivan Alekseevich Bunin in 1901 received a prize named after Pushkin.
Bunin's stories differ in that they sometimes havea lyrical plot (for example, a story about Antonov's apples), describing not a series of events, but memories and impressions of the lyric hero concerning life in a noble manor.
A writer can be called a master of poeticprose, he creates an elegiac atmosphere with the help of impressions and associative memories of the lyric hero. There are a lot of descriptions in the story. For example, a vivid picture of an improvised fair in the garden, colorful landscape sketches of the morning, winter hunting and many others.
Bunin's stories characterize him asobservant, feeling author. He was able to find a bright feature in the most everyday life scenes, then, by which people pass usually without noticing. Using a variety of techniques, drawing with details using subtle or textured strokes, he delivers his impressions to the reader. During reading, you can feel the atmosphere and see the world through the eyes of the author.
Bunin's stories captivate us not externalentertaining and not a mysterious situation, they are good in that they meet the requirements put forward to good literature: an unusually imaginative language in which various paths are intertwined. To many of his main characters, the author does not even give a name, but they are known to have exceptionality, special sensitivity, inherent in the author's vigilance and attentiveness.
As for the shades of colors, smells and sounds,all that "sensual and material," from which the world is built, the whole of the preceding Bunin and the literature created by his contemporaries has no samples of prose containing such, as he, the subtlest nuances.
An analysis of Bunin's story, for example, about Antonov's apples, makes it possible to identify the means used to create images.
Picture of an early autumn morning in an apple gardenIt is created by a chain of definitions, expressed by adjectives: quiet, fresh. The garden is big, golden, thinned, dried up. This picture is joined by smells: apples, honey and freshness, as well as sounds: people's voices and the creak of moving carts. An image is complemented by the image of the past Indian summer with flying cobwebs and a list of people's signs.
Apples in the story eat with a juicy crack, withthe mention of their sending there is a small digression - a picture of an overnight trip to the cart. The visual image: the sky in the stars; smells: tar and fresh air; sounds: cautious squealing of the carts. Again, the description of the garden. There are additional sounds - kvochtane thrushes, and it's full because the birds graze on the coral arboreal trees.
Bunin's stories are often full of sadthe mood of withering, desolation and dying, conditioned by the theme. The sadness of the landscape, as it were, illustrates and creates with the life of people one inseparable whole. The author uses in prose the same images as in his landscape lyrics. Therefore elegiac stories can be called poems in a prosaic form.
