PSYCHOLOGY OF THE PASSIONS IN THE PRE-OCTOBER STORIES OF I.A. BUNIN ON LOVE (ON THE MATERIALS OF THE STORIES "IGNAT" AND "AT THE ROAD")
The appealing to the stories of I.A. Bunin written in the period from 1909 to 1919 allows you to see the changes in sounding of the theme of love in the writer's work in comparison with his early stories. So, the theme of love in the works of I.A. Bunin, referring to the pre-October period, is closely related to the statement of the problem of individual consciousness. On the pages of the works the writer reflects on human nature and the power of love and passion over the human person. Bunin seeks to comprehend the spontaneous processes of consciousness of his characters; this is precisely what becomes the subject of the author's artistic research. The main characters’ images of the stories «Ignat» (1912) and «At the Road» (1913), analyzed by us, are distinguished by deep psychology: the writer raises the problems of the relationship of the conscious and the unconscious in the person. The correlation of the event-psychological narrative plan with the art space and time allows I.A. Bunin to bring a symbolic sounding into the image of reality: in particular, in the story «Ignat», giving the seasons with an appraising beginning shows the destruction of Ignat's personality and brings the narrative to a qualitatively new level, and in the story «At the Road» a special place is taken by leitmotives of a rye field and a road. In the works of this period I.A. Bunin turns to conflict, eventually acute situations, deliberately focuses attention on the dramatic element, emphasizes and, moreover, sharpens it. The love in pre-October works is interpreted by the writer as a passion that has a tragic nature, leading to the destruction of personality or to the death.