"Cursed days" - a summary, an analysis of Bunin's work

We present to you an overview of the work of Ivan Alekseevich Bunin "Cursed Days" - a brief summary of the main events about which he writes in his diary in 1918. This book was published for the first time in 1926.

Bunin in 1918-1920 recorded his impressions and observations concerning the events that took place at that time in our country, in the form of diary notes.

Moscow Records

So, on January 1, 1918 in Moscow, he wrote that this "accursed year" had ended, but perhaps something "even worse" was coming.

On February 5 of the same year, he notes that they have introduced a new style, so there should already be an 18th day.

On February 6, a note was written that in the newspapers they speak of the Germans' offensive, the monks are kicking the ice on Petrovka, and passers-by gloat and triumph.

Further, we omit the dates and describe the main notes of Bunin in the work "Cursed Days," a brief summary of which is considered by us.

History in the tram car

The young officer entered the tramcar and said, blushing, that he could not pay for the ticket. It was the critic Derman who fled from Simferopol. According to him, there is "indescribable horror": workers and soldiers walk "knee-deep in blood", fry alive an old colonel in a steam locomotive.

Bunin writes that, as they say everywhere, it is not yet time to disassemble objectively, impartially in the Russian revolution. But there will never be real impartiality. In addition, our "partiality" is very valuable for the future historian, notes Bunin ("Cursed Days"). Briefly the main content of the main thoughts of Ivan Alekseevich will be described below.

In the tram a lot of soldiers with large bags. They flee Moscow, fearing that they will be sent to protect Petersburg from the Germans.

Bunin met a boy soldier at Povarskaya, skinny, ragged and drunk. He jabbed him with a "snout in the chest" and spat on Ivan Alekseevich, saying to him: "Despot, you son of a bitch!".

Someone posted on the walls of the posters, incriminating Lenin and Trotsky in connection with the Germans, is that they were bribed.

Talking with polishers

We will continue to present a brief summary of Bunin's essay "Cursed Days". In conversation with polishers, he asks them a question about what will happen next in the opinion of these people. They reply that they let the criminals from the prisons run, they did not have to do it, but instead they should have been shot long ago. When the tsar was not like that. And now you will not banish the Bolsheviks. Weaken the people ... Only about a hundred thousand Bolsheviks will be, and ordinary people - millions, but they can not do anything. They would give freedom to the polishers, they would take them all apart from the apartments.

Bunin records a conversation, overheard by chance on the phone. In it, a man asks what to do: he has an adjutant Kaledin and 15 officers. The answer is: "Immediately shoot."

Again the manifestation, music, posters, banners - and everyone calls: "Rise, working people!". Bunin notes that their voices are primitive, uterine. Women have Mordovian and Chuvash faces, men have criminal, some have Sakhalin.

Further, it is said that the Romans put stamps on the faces of convicts. And these people do not need to put anything, since everything can be seen without them.

Lenin's article

Read the article of Lenin. Junk and insignificant: then the "Russian national rise", then the International.

The following describes the "Congress of Soviets," a speech delivered by Lenin. I read about the corpses standing at the bottom of the sea. These are drowned, murdered officers. And then "Musical snuffbox".

Lubyanka Square all shines in the sun. From the wheels splashes muddy mud. Boys, soldiers, bargaining with halva, gingerbread, cigarettes ... Triumphant "muzzles" among workers.

A soldier in the kitchen at P. says that socialism is impossible now, but nevertheless it is necessary to cut the bourgeoisie.

1919 year. Odessa

We continue to describe Bunin's work Cursed Days. The following events and thoughts of the author constitute a brief summary.

12th of April. Bunin notes that it has been almost three weeks since our perdition. An empty port, a dead city. Only today came a letter from August 10 from Moscow. However, the author notes, Russian mail has long since ended, even in the summer of 17, when the minister of telegraphs and mails appeared on the European way. There was a "Minister of Labor" - and all Russia immediately ceased to work. Satan's bloodthirstiness, Cain's anger blew on the country in the days when freedom, equality and brotherhood were proclaimed. Immediately there was insanity. Everyone threatened to arrest each other for any contradiction.

Portrait of the people

Bunin recalls the indignation with which his supposedly "black" images of the Russian people were met at that time by those who were remembered, nurtured by this literature, which disgraced a hundred years for all classes except the "people" and tramps. All the houses are now dark, the whole city is in darkness, except robber dens, where balalaikas are heard, chandeliers are burning, there are walls with black banners, on which white skulls are depicted and "Death to the bourgeois" is written.

We will continue to describe the work that Bunin IA wrote. ("Cursed days"), in the cramming. Ivan Alekseevich writes that there are two types of people in the people. In one of them, Russia predominates, and in the other, in its expression, Chud. But in both there is the variability of appearance, mood, "shakiness." The people said to themselves that from it, like wood, "both a club and an icon." It all depends on who processes, on the circumstances. Emelka Pugachev or Sergius of Radonezh.

The extinct city

We continue our brief retelling in the abbreviation. Bunin IA "Cursed days" supplements as follows. In Odessa, shot and killed 26 Black Hundreds. It's creepy. The city sits at home, few people go out into the street. Everyone feels as if they were conquered by a special people, more terrible than our ancestors seemed Pechenegs. And the winner trades with trays, staggers, spits seeds.

Bunin notes that as soon as the city becomes "red," the crowd filling the streets immediately changes greatly. The selection of persons on which there is no simplicity, commonness. They are all almost repulsive, frightening their evil stupidity, a challenge to everyone and everything. On the Field of Mars committed a "funeral comedy" allegedly heroes who died for freedom. It was a mockery of the dead, because they were deprived of Christian burial, buried in the center of the city, boarded up in red coffins.

"Warning" in the newspapers

We continue to state the summary of the work of IA. Bunin "Cursed days." Further, the author reads a "warning" in the newspapers that electricity will not soon be due to fuel depletion. Everything was processed in one month: there were no railways, no factories, no clothes, no bread, no water. Late in the evening, they came with the "commissar" at home to measure the rooms "for sealing by the proletariat." The author asks himself why the tribunal is a commissar, and not just a court. Because you can walk in blood knee-deep under the protection of the sacred words of the revolution. Libertinism is the main thing in the Red Army men. Eyes arrogant, muddy, in the mouth of a cigarette, a cap on the back of the head, dressed in a dud. In Odessa, another 15 people were shot, two trains were sent with food to the defenders of St. Petersburg, when the city itself "is starving to death."

This concludes the work "Cursed Days", the brief content of which we set out to tell you. In conclusion, the author writes that his Odessa notes are breaking off at this point. The next sheet he buried in the ground, leaving the city, and then could not find.

A brief analysis of Bunin's work "Cursed Days"

Ivan Alekseevich in his work expressed his attitude to the revolution - sharply negative. In the strict sense, "Cursed Days" Bunin - it's not even a diary, as the records were restored from memory by the writer, artistically crafted. As a break in historical time, they were perceived by the Bolshevik coup. Bunin felt himself to be the last to feel the past of his grandfathers and fathers. He wanted to push the withering, autumn beauty of the former and the formlessness, the tragedy of the present time. In the work "Cursed Days" Bunin said that Pushkin low and sadly bows his head, as if again noting: "My Russia is sad!". All around the soul, only occasionally obscene women and soldiers.

Not only the triumph of tyranny and the defeat of democracy was for the writer the gehenna of the revolution, but also an irreparable loss of harmony and the formation of life itself, the victory of formlessness. In addition, the work is colored by the sadness of parting, which Bunin has with his country. Looking at the orphaned port of Odessa, the author remembers leaving for the honeymoon and notes that the descendants can not even imagine the Russia where their parents once lived.

For the disintegration of Russia Bunin guesses the end of world harmony. Only in religion he sees the only consolation.

The writer did not idealize the old life at all. Her vices were imprinted in "Sukhodol" and "Village". He showed in the same place the progressive degeneration of the nobility class. But compared with the horrors of the civil war and the revolution, pre-revolutionary Russia in Bunin's view became almost an example of order and stability. He felt himself almost a biblical prophet, even in the "Village" who announced the impending disaster and awaited execution of them, as well as an impartial chronicler and eyewitness to another ruthless and senseless Russian rebellion, in the words of Pushkin. Bunin saw that the horrors of the revolution were perceived by the people as retribution for oppression during the reign of the Romanov dynasty. And he also noted that the Bolsheviks could go on exterminating half of the population. Therefore, the Bunin diary is so gloomy.