Журнал «Филоlogos»

THE NON-DISINTEGRATED TIE: I. BUNIN AND M. BULGAKOV

Author: Komlik N.N.

The article deals with non-evident but deep-secret, revealed on cultural and genetic level ties between two talented Russian artists I.A. Bunin and M.A. Bulgakov, whose life and creative ways did not cross, but developed in non-identical historical and cultural expance. As a result of the comparative analysis of these two writers' creative work their ideological-thematic, figurative, historical and philosophic, spiritual and moral interchanging and closeness have been revealed. This spiritual and moral relationship is coming to light firstly in amazingly coinciding soul state that characterized them when they gazed at the events in the reality of Russia, risen by the revolution. Melancholy, despair, loneliness and, strengthened in these conditions conservatism, pride, spiritual aristocratism, determined the direction of thoughts and feelings for both artists. Closeness of the writers' spiritual-moral credo also caused the assonance of motif-imagery style of their documentary and fiction works. The image of a "growling" lorry as a symbol of the new reality, which is present in Bunin's diary notes ("Cursed days") and in Bulgakov's story "Dog's heart", the image of Sharikov, going back to the chain of characters the Grey - Deniska from Bunin's story "The village", motives of dream and awful waking up, loneliness, running, home, returning and damnation, truth and beauty, the gospel motif of Christ and his crucifixion - this is something in common which reveals the spiritual-moral closeness of the artists, their coinciding conception of the world and man. Creative assonance of the artists, whose real ties were broken by the course of history, was preserved in "the secret depth" as a unified genetic code of spiritual-moral values and priorities of the great Russian culture. This fact conditioned the non-disintegrated tie between two masters of Russian literature.