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of World Literature
of the Russian Academy of Sciences

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A.M. Gorky Institute of World Literature
of the Russian Academy of Sciences

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  • Classification – name: Literary studies
  • Author: Olga V. Nizova
  • Pages: 127–138
  • Publisher: A.M. Gorky Institute of World Literature of the Russian Academy of Sciences (IWL RAS Publ.)
  • Rights – description: Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 (СС BY-ND)
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  • Language of the publication: Russian
  • Type of document: Research Article
  • Collection: I.A. Bunin and his Time: Context of Life — History of Work
  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.22455/AB-978-5-9208-0675-8-127-138
  • Year of publication: 2021
  • Place of publication: Moscow
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  • Nizova, O.V. “Hermeneutical Experience in the Novel ‛The Life of Arseniev’ by Ivan Bunin.” I.A. Bunin and His Time: Context of Life — History of Work. Ex. eds. T.M. Dvinyatina and S.N. Morozov; Eds. A.V. Bakuntsev and E.R. Ponomarev. Moscow, IWL RAS Publ., 2021, pp. 127–138. (In Russ.) https://doi.org/10.22455/AB-978-5-9208-0675-8-127-138

About the author:

Olga V. Nizova, Assistant Teacher, Belarusian State University of Transport, Kirova 34, 246653 Gomel, Belarus.

ORCID ID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7387-9181

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Abstract:

The paper attempts to apply the categories and methods of German hermeneutics of the beginning and the middle of the 20th century, such as understanding of life, sympathetic re-living (W. Dilthey), being-in-the-world, being-with (M. Heidegger), dialogue with tradition, hermeneutic experience (H.-G. Gadamer) and others, to analysis of a famous lyrical novel, “The Life of Arseniev” by Ivan Bunin, to the extent of their correspondence to the philosophical content of the book. The autobiographical self-knowledge in the novel is considered in relation to the same experience expressed in Goethe’s “From My Life: Poetry and Truth”; the paper also describes the hermeneutical situation of the creation of an “autobiography of a fictional person”, traces the influence of Hindu culture, Orthodoxy and Catholicism in the hero’s understanding of the world; notes the cyclic character of time; reveals the love and beauty being the ontological characteristics of the world in the novel; shows the expansion of existence in sympathetic reliving of the past as well as the possibility of being-in-the-world as a poetic being; considers the hero’s acquisition of vocation, the choice of lifestyle and environment as well as the self-examination and self-reflection phenomena as the modes of self-knowledge experience; juxtaposes the understanding of life of the Bunin’s to with the Heidegger’s hermeneutics of factuality.

  • Keywords: Ivan Bunin, “The Life of Arseniev”, hermeneutics, understanding, self-knowledge, hermeneutical experience, being-in-the-world.

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