The Textology of I. A. Bunin’s Short Story “Silence”

In 1901, after returning from his first trip abroad, I.A. Bunin wrote a short story based on a trip to Switzerland in the company of V.P. Kurovsky, “On Lake Geneva” (later “Silence”). This text is the only prose work of the writer that contains a dedication. The figure of Kurovsky (a romantic character) fascinated the young Bunin, and he later dedicated poetry to him. The article shows through a textual prism how the writer’s elegiac story was transformed from edition to edition (the text was reprinted 7 times). Bunin retained the original principles of the poetics of romanticism, but diligently retouched the excessive emotionality of the text, got rid of romantic clichés, reduced the amount of intertextual connections, and also carried out the stylistic text editing characteristic of the mature Bunin of the mid-1910s

Aesthetics · Art · Elegy · Literature · Poetry · Silence · Russian Literature and Bakhtin Studies

• Genre Genesis and Plot Theory of Ivan Bunin’s Early Prose

  Open Access•Evgeny R Ponomarev•Studia Litterarum•2022

  Añadir item