I. BUNIN ABOUT M. VOLOSHIN: PROS AND CONS

Abstract

Aim is to clarify the polemical attitude of I. Bunin to the personality and poetry of M. Voloshin in the post-revolutionary period. Methodology. Special attention is paid to interpreting the late poetic works of I. Bunin and M. Voloshin and their artistic concept of post-revolutionary Russia. Biographical, cultural-historical, and hermeneutical methods are used in the analysis of poetic texts. Results. The analysis of poems reveals the dual image of post-revolutionary Russia in the works of both poets. Research implications. The article contributes to studying the legacy of one of the brightest poets of the first third of the twentieth century.

Keywords

• I. Bunin
• M. Voloshin
• the image of the Russia
• historicism
• mythologism
• Apocalyptica