Siberian Federal University 
- Issue
- Journal of Siberian Federal University. Humanities & Social Sciences. 2017 10 (5)
- Authors
- Bogdanova, Olga V.
- Contact information
- BogdanovaBogdanova, Olga V.: St. Petersburg State University 7/9 Universitetskaya Embankment, St. Petersburg, 199034, Russia;
- Keywords
- the history of Russian literature of the 20th century; prose; I.A. Bunin; Pure Monday; philosophical structure; figurative system
- Abstract
On the basis of comparing the texts of the story Pure Monday (1944) and the religious-philosophical treatise The Liberation of Tolstoy (1937), the article offers a new perspective on the understanding of the philosophical structure of the novel from the series Dark Alleys. The article states the dependence of the ideological and figurative system of the story on the philosophy of death (“the philosophy of leaving”) by L. Tolstoy. The author argues that if the plot of the story is a love story between him and her, then according to the conducted analysis at the level of the reflection of the philosophical ideas Bunin’s heroes are the personification of the abstract love of the artist for the thoughts and ideas of the preceding writers. The image of the heroine of Pure Monday is the idea-personification of Bunin’s love to the late philosophical views of Tolstoy. The image of the main hero is the reflection of ideas about the Pushkin’s world, his “Onegin type” embodied in his character. The conflict of different life philosophies becomes a “condition” of the failed love of the heroes
- Pages
- 642-653
- Paper at repository of SibFU
- https://elib.sfu-kras.ru/handle/2311/32508
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