NOSTALGIA ZA NEEXISTUJÚCOU „KRAJINOU DETSTVA“ V IMPRESIONISTICKEJ POVIEDKE IVANA BUNINA (K ŽÁNROVEJ PODOBE PRÓZ TEMNÉ ALEJE)

• Authors: Soňa Pašteková

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Nostalgia for the non-existing „land of childhood“ in the impressionist short story by Ivan Bunin (on the genre in Dark Avenues)

• Languages of publication: SK

Abstracts

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The article was written as an outcome of the international scientific colloquium The Forms of Melancholy in the Arts organized by the Institute of Slovak Literature, Slovak Academy of Sciences, in Bratislava (15th May 2014) and, at the same time, is a partial outcome of the VEGA grant project titled Hyperlexicon of Literary and Scientific Terms and Categories, designed as a reflection on the genre theory and the forming of the genre invariants in modern prose of the 20th century. The methodological basis of the article is the interpretation analysis of the text structure of a particular short story chosen from the prose cycle Dark Avenues (1939-43) by the Russian Modernist Ivan Bunin with respect to literary as well as non-literary contexts. The article is supported by primary sources (original texts of Bunin´s short stories and their Slovak translations by renowned Slovak translators – the cited samples) as well as secondary literature on the subject of the research carried out by Russian, Czech and Slovak literary scientists, and, in addition to that, by the author´s own previous research into the work of Ivan Bunin. The result of the interpretation analysis of one of the most significant short stories in the cycle titled Rusya (1940) and its non-literary background proves the hypothesis of the narrator´s ambiguous position on the author – narrator - character axis and, at the same time, tries to define the genre particularities of Bunin´s text oscillating between lyric, epic and drama with regard to the author´s intention and the use of the means of expression to convey the artistic message. The well-thought-of way of handling time and space, the writer´s narrative strategy brings an original aesthetic and psychological effect in reader text reception. In the context of Bunin´s work of the later emigration period, the presented interpretation analysis proves the assumption that the short story structure features genre vagueness being an open and continuously developing composition system.

Keywords

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RUSSIAN LITERATURE; IVAN BUNIN; PROSE; STRUCTURE; GENRE; IMPRESSIONISM

• Publisher: Institute of Slovak Literature, Slovak Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Slovenská literatúra (Slovak Literature)
• Year: 2014
• Volume: 61
• Issue: 4
• Pages: 322 – 328

Contributors

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Soňa Pašteková

• Ústav slovenskej literatúry SAV, Konventná 13, 813 64 Bratislava, Slovak Republic