Open AccessWHAT IS POETRY? OBSERVATIONS ON THE TOPIC «I. A. BUNIN AND E. A. BARATYNSKY»
Author(s) -
Tatiana M. Dvinyatina,
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Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
russkaâ literatura
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 0131-6095
DOI - 10.31860/0131-6095-2021-4-191-201
Subject(s) - poetry , elegiac , parallels , soul , literature , immortality , creativity , art , history , philosophy , psychology , theology , engineering , mechanical engineering , social psychology
The article outlines the parallels between the artistic systems of Ivan Bunin and Evgenii Baratynsky. They shared the same view concerning their role in the literary world, the connections between creativity and reminiscences, the way they treated their familial memory as a guarantor of immortality, their awareness of the unbreakable link between the contrasting states of soul and existence. Baratynsky’s influence grew after Bunin’s departure from Russia: only once he had found support in the elegiac tradition, Bunin managed to recreate both his own artistic world and the fi gurative system of his art. The stories Bunin wrote in the fi rst half of the 1920s absorbed a significant body of motifs and direct quotes from Baratynsky’s poetry. The latter’s Fragments from the Poem: Recollections (1819) can be read as a meta-description of the world of Bunin’s émigré years.