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Evgeny R. Ponomarev
Evgeny R. Ponomarev, DSc in Philology, Leading Research Fellow, A.M. Gorky Institute of World Literature of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Povarskaya 25 a, 121069 Moscow, Russia; Professor, The Herzen State Pedagogical University of Russia, 48624 Moika Emb., 191186 St. Petersburg, Russia.
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Acknowledgements:
The research was carried out at the A.M. Gorky Institute of World Literature of the Russian Academy of Sciences with the financial support of the Russian Science Foundation (project No. 22-18-00347 “Ivan Bunin’s Early Work: Poetry, Prose, Criticism, Journalism, Translations (1883–1902)”).
Abstract:
The article, firstly, talks about the general plan and progress of research into the poetics of the early works of Ivan A. Bunin, conducted by the Bunin group of the IWL RAS, secondly, offers an analysis of several prose texts of early Bunin from the point of view of stylistic traditions and possible influences. The author believes that narodnik literature influenced Bunin only in the field of subject matter; young Bunin took much more from classical Russian literature (Lermontov, Gogol, Turgenev, L. Tolstoy) in the field of stylistics and, as he himself put it, the general “tone.” The article analyzes the texts of the story “Uvlechenije”, the series of essays “Melkopomestnye”, the stories “Nefedka”, “Dva Strannika”, “Shaman and Motka”, “Na Kraj Sveta”.