STORY BY I.A. BUNIN “MISTRAL” IN THE CONTEXT OF THE SERIES “DARK ALLEYS”

The story of I.A. Bunin “Mistral” is discussed. The analysis establishes a conceptual link with a series of short stories about love “Dark alleys”. Intertextual context, allusions, reminiscences of “Mistral” are established. It is shown that references to the Bible and the Psalms allow the artist to touch philosophical questions about the meaning of human life, human personality, conscious of its life limits. The philosophical attitude of the narrator-narrator in “Mistral” was alien to the optimistic susceptibility of the hero of “Dark alleys”. It is demonstrated that “eternal” and “accursed” questions in human life - taken in the view of I.A. Bunin new philosophical emphases, is treated under a new thoughtfully angle. The analysis shows that the philosophical and psychological vectors of the story “Mistral” allowed I.A. Bunin to include it in the series “Dark alleys”. But the pessimistic note of the author’s view dictated its autonomy and isolation from the cyclical texts.

Russian literature of the XX century, I.A. Bunin, the story “Mistral”, series “Dark alleys”, intertext