Short stories about the love of Russian and foreign authors

Short stories about love can only create real connoisseurs of the human soul. In the work of small prose, it is not so easy to depict deep emotions. With this, the Russian classic Ivan Bunin did a great job. Interesting short stories about love were also created by Ivan Turgenev, Alexander Kuprin, Leonid Andreev and other writers. In this article we will consider the authors of foreign and domestic literature, in the works of which there are small lyrical works.

Ivan Bunin

Short stories about love ... What should they be? In order to understand this, it is necessary to read Bunin's works. This writer is an unsurpassed master of sentimental prose. His works are a model of this genre. In the famous collection of "Dark Alleys" included thirty-eight romantic stories. In each of them, the author not only revealed the deep feelings of his characters, but also was able to convey how much power is possessed by love. After all, this feeling can change a person's destiny.

Such short stories about love, like "The Caucasus", "Dark alleys", "The Late Hour", can tell of a great feeling more than hundreds of sentimental novels.

Leonid Andreev

Love for all ages. Not only the pure feelings of young people were devoted to talented writers by short stories about love. To write on this topic, which is sometimes asked in school, the material can be the work of Leonid Andreev "Herman and Marta", the main characters of which are very far from the age of Romeo and Juliet. The action of this story takes place in one of the cities of the Leningrad region at the beginning of the century. Then the place where the tragic event described by the Russian writer took place belonged to Finland. According to the laws of this country, people who have reached the age of fifty, can marry only with the permission of the children.

The history of love between Herman and Martha was sad. The closest people in their life did not want to understand the feelings of two elderly people. The heroes of Andreev's story could not be together, and therefore this romantic story ended tragically.

Vasily Shukshin

Short stories about maternal love, if they are created by a real artist, are especially heartfelt. After all, the stronger the feeling that a woman feels for her child, there is nothing in the world. This was described with sad irony by the Soviet writer, screenwriter and director Vasily Shukshin in the story "The Mother's Heart".

The protagonist of this work was in trouble through his own fault. But the mother's heart, although wise, does not recognize any logic. A woman overcomes unimaginable obstacles in order to rescue her son from prison. "Mother's Heart" is one of the most penetrating works of Russian prose dedicated to love.

Lyudmila Kulikova

Another work about the most powerful feeling is the story "Meet". Lyudmila Kulikova dedicated his love to his mother, whose life ends after the betrayal of the only beloved son. This woman is breathing, talking, smiling. But she no longer lives. After all, the son, who was the meaning of her life, did not make itself felt for more than twenty years. Kulikova's story is heartfelt, sad and very enlightening. Maternal love is the brightest thing that a person can have. To betray her is to commit the greatest sin.

Anatoly Aleksin

A short story, called "Homemade Composition," is devoted to love, both maternal and youthful. Once the hero of Alexin - the boy Dima - discovers in the old thick encyclopedia letter. The epistle was written many years ago, and the author is no longer alive. They were a student of the tenth grade, and the addressee was a classmate, in whom he was in love. But the letter remained unanswered, because the war came. The author of the letter died without sending it. The girl, who was destined for romantic lines, graduated from high school, institute, got married. Her life continued. The author's mother forever stopped smiling. After all, surviving your child is impossible.

Stefan Zweig

Long and short stories about love were created also by the famous Austrian prose writer. One of these works is called "The Letter of a Stranger". When you read the recognition of the heroine of this novel, who loved a person all her life, who did not remember a person or her name, it becomes very sad. But at the same time there is a hope that the present sublime and selfless feeling still exists, and is not only an artistic fiction of a talented writer.