Composition on the works of Bunin. Topics for essays

Ivan Bunin was an unsurpassed master of small prose. In short stories, he could not only depict the depth of a fleeting feeling, but also create a complete psychological picture of the hero. Composition on the works of Bunin is written by students from year to year. What topics of such creative tasks do they choose more often?

Love

An essay on Bunin's work is a written work. In it, the student on the basis of read works and special literature analyzes a particular feature of the writer. Ivan Bunin is a kind of unique author. The theme of love in his work occupies almost the main place. At the same time, it is revealed extremely deeply, penetratingly.

Spiritual value or vice?

An essay on Bunin’s work is often devoted to the theme of love, and above all because it was this writer who was the first to speak about feelings between a man and a woman so openly. At least, no one in Russian literature did this before him.

A feature of Bunin's stories is tragedy. At the same time, the style of the narrative is surprisingly concise. It is enough to recall the work "The Caucasus", in which the author rather dryly narrates about the love affair of the protagonist and a married woman. Bunin without unnecessary digressions tells the reader about the selfish passion of his characters. Only in passing the heroine of the story mentions a spouse - a cruel and proud man. A cheated husband commits suicide. The last hours from the life of a man whom a beloved woman betrayed are described with restraint, sparingly. And this is a characteristic feature of the author's style. Schoolchildren often write an essay on Bunin’s work on the topic of love as vice and the highest spiritual value.

Nature

For emotional enhancement, Bunin uses the landscape — cold Moscow and sunny south — in the story “The Caucasus”. A special place is occupied by nature in the works of Bunin. A work on one of his works can also be devoted to the significance of the landscape. But the most striking role is played by the image of nature in the story "Antonov apples". The smell of ripe apples, an abandoned estate and the author’s memories are what allow the reader to plunge into the atmosphere of a Russian village.

Natural phenomena in Bunin's prose and poetry are inextricably linked with the feelings and sensations of the heroes. In the poem "Loneliness", the reader encounters words such as "bad weather" and "melancholy", "rain" and "gray haze". And the reader, studying this poetic work, is deeply imbued with the feelings of the hero, who was completely alone in the cold rainy weather.

Russia

Bunin left his homeland in 1918. But he never broke a spiritual connection with her. One of the central themes was Russia in the works of Bunin. An essay on this subject is dedicated to both early poetic works and late prose, filled with bitter longing for their native places. Before emigration, Bunin’s image of Russia was sad, even gloomy. The story "Village" tells the story of poverty and the moral consequences of an unrighteous lifestyle.

Nostalgia

The closer Bunin approached the date of his death, the harder he was to experience remoteness from Russia. In recent years, he was exclusively interested in the culture and literature of the country from which he was forced to flee after the revolution. For creative work on the theme “The Image of Russia in Bunin's Stories”, works in which the homeland is not even mentioned can serve as the primary source. After all, the longing of the Russian emigrant is the other side of love for Russia.

To write an essay on a similar topic, the story “Paris” is suitable. Two lonely people meet in the capital of France. They are strangers in this city. But they find each other. Their happiness, however, does not last long. The hero is dying. At the end of the story, the reader gets the impression that his lover will not be able to bear the loss, because away from home, any pain is felt a hundred times stronger.