THE "PATH" IN THE LIFE AND CREATIVE PHILOSOPHY OF IVAN BUNIN
The article deals with the issue related to the implementation in the creative practice of I.A. Bunin of the motive of the path, which is based on mythopoetic, philosophical-religious and biographical roots. The author emphasizes the specifics of the poet's understanding of the "sense of the way" and the system of artistic means that allows him to express it. The motive of the path is considered in the evolutionary development of the author. Special attention is paid to the semantic "increments" in the image of the lyrical hero, his comprehension of the world. From romantically sublime impulses, lonely thoughts, the poet leads his character to the realization of belonging to the world, the desire to comprehend its hidden patterns and tell people about them so that they can overcome the sinfulness of their existence, understand the true value of being. The research material was Bunin's poetic works, individual stories and essays from different years, touching on the chosen topic. The involvement of diaries, letters, memoirs of the artist and about him made it possible to supplement the range of observations of the development in his personal and creative consciousness of the categories involved in the motive of the path. This is how semantically capacious concepts of the Ideal as the embodiment of the purpose of movement, Memory as a thread connecting generations in space and time, the Circle of the earth as the character of universal human development were defined in his poetic philosophy. The relevance of the study is due to the need to refute the well-established opinion that Bunin, allegedly, is not peculiar to the consciousness of the path-development; his "destiny" is the path-position. The article argues a different point of view. It is argued that the poet, no less than the symbolists, and in particular A. Blok, has an understanding of the progressive nature of creative formation, but it has found a different embodiment in his life and artistic philosophy. The "sense of the way" not declared in articles and speeches was not a theoretical, but a truly realistic, biographically justified and to some extent "genetically" laid the foundation of many of the writer's artistic generalizations, captured in the unique images of his poetry and prose.