Журнал «Филоlogos»

BUNIN'S TRADITION IN THE "VILLAGE" PROSE OF THE SECOND HALF OF THE XXth CENTURY

Author: Nikonova T.A.

The article discusses I. Bunin's story "The Village", which laid one of the realistic traditions, actualized and developed by Russian literature of the twentieth century. Its bright page in the second half of the century was "village" prose, which began with the essays by V. Ovechkin, the stories of G. Troepolsky and other writers. The researchers saw its peculiarity in following the Russian classics. However, "village" prose was not and could not be a simple repetition of the experience of literature of the nineteenth century. It originated in another country, repelled from the new reality, from the collective farm, and not the village life. Because of this, it did not repeat and could not repeat the experience of the Russian classics, as a rule, idealized the peasant. To many authors of the "village" prose, a sober Bunin view of the Russian people turned out to be closer. The article discusses the experience of the story "The Village" by Bunin, written in the beginning of the twentieth century and offering his view on the peasant and the fate of the Russian village on the eve of the Russian revolution. Bunin saw both constructive and destructive beginnings in the Russian man, which were realized in "damned days". The experience of the story "The Village" became one of the living traditions perceived by the "village" prose of the second half of the twentieth century, which creatively reacted to the experience of the Russian classics.