Article

Name: I. A. Bunin’s «Mowers» and S. S. Bekhteev’s «Mowers»: crying about the lost Homeland

Authors: I. S. Uryupin

Bunin Yelets State University, Yelets, Russian Federation

In the section Study of literature

Abstract: In the paper a comparative analysis of the ideological and artistic originality of the story of «Mowers» by I. A. Bunin and of the poem «Mowers» by S. S. Bekhteev is carried out for the first time in the historical and literary aspect. Both artists who had come from the depth of the Russian Podstepya (had spent their childhood and youth in the town of Yelets of the Oryol province), interpreted the October revolution as a national catastrophe, forcedly left the Homeland and found a haven in the south of France, in the early 1920s created the said works, of different genres by their art nature, but of close plots as well as spiritual and philosophical range of problems. In the center of the artists’ attention there are mowers singing a sad song about «a darling party», symbolizing the lost Homeland. The mythic and poetical and poetical semantics of the mowers expressed by I. A. Bunin and S. S. Bekhteev, creates a special spiritual space of the Homeland comprehended through a prism of national cultural and philosophical consciousness.

Keywords: i. a. bunin, s. s. bekhteev, «mowers», mythological poetics, homeland subject, national and cultural consciousness.

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