Qur'anic Reminiscences in the Cultural Space of I.A. Bunin's Creativity

Abstract

In the centuries-old history of the development of mankind, the culture of space and time of the East was understood and comprehended in different ways. Contemplating and feeling the East, adopting the ideas and provisions of the Holy Scriptures of the Koran, as the great and immutable truths of mankind, Bunin creates his own interpretation of what he saw, where the value orientations of the East become the main object of his attention. This article highlights the important components of the metaphysics of Bunin's literary text, analyzes the specifics of the embodiment of Qur'anic motifs in the writer's work, emphasizes the importance of I. Bunin's use of the codes and ciphers of the Holy Book of Muslims, clarifies the features of the embodiment of the semantic contents of the Qur'an in the writer's poetic heritage. The article deals with verses that are directly consonant with the theme of Qur'anic surahs and verses, reveals the exact adherence of verses to the Qur'anic meaning and reveals their additional meanings, analyzes poems that are an original continuation of the subject matter of the source. Structurally, all the "eastern" texts of Bunin are presented in the figurative and linguistic elements of his poetics, the construction of the stanza, a special syntax, repetitions, pauses give them a special solemnity and majesty. Poetically penetrating the world of important Muslim shrines, Bunin pushes the boundaries of space and time, creating in his poems a synthesis of East-West culture.