Memory of childhood as a way of self-realization in the novel by Ivan Alekseevitz Bunin’s Life of Arsenyev Cover Image

Память о детстве как способ самореализации личности в романе И.А. Бунина Жизнь Арсеньева
Memory of childhood as a way of self-realization in the novel by Ivan Alekseevitz Bunin’s Life of Arsenyev

Author(s): Olga Puzyreva
Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies, Studies of Literature, Russian Literature, Philology
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Warmińsko-Mazurskiego w Olsztynie
Keywords: emigration; memory of childhood; self-actualization of personality; acmeology; “reverse perspective”; symbols of salvation

Summary/Abstract: This article investigates the psychological and philosophical significance of childhood images in I.A. Bunin’s novel Life of Arsenyev, written in emigration. It is concluded that the worldview of a childhood spent in Russia and the memory of this time become the main ethical categories in the work, correlated with the author’s religious symbols of salvation – with words, the happiness of the creative process, with the actualization of the meaning of life and the self-realization of personality.

  • Issue Year: 4/2019
  • Issue No: XXIV
  • Page Range: 85-100
  • Page Count: 16
  • Language: Russian