Журнал «Филоlogos»

STAGINESS OF BUNIN'S PROSE (ON THE MATERIAL OF THE STORY "GENRIKH")

Author: Komlik N.N.

The article investigates the problem of staginess in Bunin's prose on the example of the story "Genrikh". The analysis of the story makes it possible to assert that despite the absence of plays among the creative works of the writer, staginess is an essential peculiarity of his artistic thinking. Talent of a dramatist, which is organically combined with the gift of an epic and lyric poet in his works, expressively reveals itself in the artistic structure of the story "Genrikh", which has a three-dimensional poetic sphere. Epic, lyrical, dramatic dimensions determine the peculiarity of its "hybrid" form. Poetics of stage art shows itself in a peculiar attitude of a narrator to the story, it is similar to the position of a dramatist in relation to the scenes demonstrated by him. The author's text is associated with the detailed lyrical stage direction to a scene. Like a producer, Bunin arranges the spatial and temporal structure of the story. According to the laws of stage work the situation, appearance of characters are given - they are bright, spectacular, flowingly expressive. Some genre forms of the drama as a kind of literature, such as a comic sketch, a mystery, are present and function in the story in an open or hidden form. Besides, staginess manifests itself in the masterly-elaborated technique of arrangement, which is the main constructive principle of the story. Its arrangement composition stirs up the architectonics of inner relations between events, fates, situations, makes "brighter" the energy, the "play" of author's thought, assists the motif organization of the story. The most delicately arranged writing turns words, details, situations, pictures, that seem to have little significance, into a ramified net of motif combinations, through unexpected compositions, "chains" of which Bunin's understanding of the eternal, constant - of Eros, Love, Life, Death - Is appearing.