Love in the works of Bunin and Kuprin - love of the earthly and heavenly

Ancient Greek philosophers divided love into two kinds. Aphrodite-Pandemos acted as the goddess of earthly sensual love, Aphrodite-Urania proclaimed love pure, heavenly. That is, it is twofold. It gives rise to the desire to behold and to have beauty. Love in the works of Bunin and Kuprin reflects these qualities of Venus in full.

Heroes I.A. Bunin

Dreaming of love, but not about high and pure bliss, but about something truly earthly, sensual, heroes IA. Bunin are afraid to give themselves to love, and then regret it. As a rule, they themselves do not make the first step. They are waiting for a woman to take decisive action.

Do his characters have serious feelings? To some extent yes. A man can be electrified by him in such a way that either he commits suicide or lives only with memories. And in general, Bunin's characters produce a rather pitiful impression. They lack courage, they do not have a truly masculine beginning. It started a long time ago. Even Chernyshevsky, analyzing the behavior of the Turgenev heroes in the article "The Russian Man on a Rendezvous," comes to the conclusion that they have "pathetic character traits," they prefer a retreat to every decisive step, that is, he says they are completely inconsistent as individuals. But girls and women, like Turgenev, have usually Bunin straight, without vulgar rudeness and decisive. However, everything is more complicated with Bunin. The spirit pervades the flesh, making it noble. The sphere of a confused and gloomy feeling is formed. But if love lasts a little longer, the prose and vulgarity of life will destroy it. Love in the works of Bunin and Kuprin differ both in the characters of the characters and in the very "quality" of love, which is very earthly and carnal, with all the enormity of its rise in the first classics and the sublime in the second.

Characters AI. Kuprin

The tradition of describing true love in Europe has developed in such a way that it must necessarily end tragically. The most typical example is Romeo and Juliet. In Russia, beginning with Pushkin Tatiana, this tradition is continued by Vera from the "Hero of Our Time". This could not but leave a mark on how AI depicts the love. Kuprin. Even the hot, passionate and full of spicy aromas and incense love a simple girl from the garden, twisted by the vines, and the king of kings ends in death. Did Kuprin choose this story by chance? I think not. Everything goes on within the framework of generally accepted traditions.

But how sublime are the feelings of his heroes, modest and selfless! Kuprin raises a woman on a pedestal, the hearts of his heroes are open to noble feelings, especially of small people with their passive virtues. As can be seen from the brief analysis, love in the works of Bunin and Kuprin is different in that the poor are often the bearer of the feeling, ready to go for any feat for it, and do not expect any reward for it. Consider one of the most remarkable works about love in Russian prose.

"Garnet bracelet"

Kuprin's story "Garnet Bracelet" begins quite serene. Everything is happily and happily goes to the house of Princess Vera Nikolaevna Sheina. The atmosphere is reminiscent of the house of Rostov L.N. Tolstoy, with the same air of comfort and warmth of human relationships. At her in the country her dearest friends and relatives meet her birthday.

She receives a bracelet with grenades from a man she does not know, but who has loved her for seven years. This gift darkens her holiday, but, talking to the old wise general, she gets an answer, which, in his opinion, should be love - "selfless, ready to perform any feat, go to the torture. She is all in joy. " "Love," says the general, "is the greatest mystery in the world." And Vera Nikolaevna manages to touch this secret, one, forgiving, ready to die. That sorrowful day when a small innocuous official Zheltkov, having committed suicide, lies in a coffin, and he visits to say goodbye to him, Vera Nikolaevna, only the staleest people will not cause tears. The traditional story of a little man and a beautiful socialite Kuprin turned into a poem about disinterested and exalting love. This hymn to a pure feeling, which does not expect anything in return, is Kuprin's story "Pomegranate Bracelet". And now we will pass to absolutely other, mystical love in the composition of another writer.

"Clean Monday"

Painful love in the work of Bunin. "Clean Monday" he himself considered his best work. The hero is "normal" for all his physical attractiveness. Another thing is the heroine. Her actions are strange and incomprehensible, but in them lies the importance of character, the "chosenness" of nature. This short novel is practically devoid of events.

She and her companion attend Shalyapin concerts, "cabbage", where they are entertained by the best actors of Moscow, some courses, lectures, restaurants and taverns. But she feels alienated from all this. The heroine tensely searches for what the companion does not understand, something heroic, whole. She alone visits monasteries and finds her ideal in religious antiquity. The heroine has an imperious feminine charm, will and thirst for life. So different are the characters and love in the works of Bunin and Kuprin. After Maslenitsa, on a clean Monday, she, paying off with her beloved and giving up on him, goes into the spirit world, to the monastery. The last time the hero sees his beloved accidentally, already in the form of a nun, but from her comes the strongest tension. She felt his presence in the monastery. Quietly turning around, the hero leaves.

Conclusion

The themes of love in the works of Bunin and Kuprin are different, as is its display. But love as a tragedy is preserved by one and the other author. In Bunin this is shown through the catastrophic nature of life, in Kuprin - through the scrapping of seemingly unshakable and firmly established. After all, no doubt, the princess will be changed by the death of her unrequited love. At the end of the story, she is already beginning to understand that past her life passed, touching slightly, something unknown and huge.