Artistic originality of the story Antonov apples. Analysis of the story "Antonov apples" by I.A.
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The story of I. Bunin " Antonov apples” differs markedly not only from traditional stories, but also from traditional literature in particular. Distinctive features The plot and features of the image became the reason that the story attracted the attention of readers and researchers of literature.
History of creation and prototypes of heroes
The story of I. Bunin "Antonov apples" did not become a work created in one breath. His "birth" was preceded by long haul.
In one of his letters, V.V. Pashchenko, dated August 14, 1891, Bunin describes his impression of the autumn days spent on the estate of his brother Evgeny Alekseevich. From the letter we learn that Bunin was always reverent about autumn - it was his favorite time of the year. Visiting his brother, he not only enjoyed the lovely autumn paintings, but also enhanced them with the aroma of Antonov apples. Nine years later, these memories became key to the creation of the story.
Bunin did not make public the prototype of the protagonist, but such a person was discovered by researchers. Vera Nikolaevna Muromtseva, wife of I. Bunin, after the death of her husband in her work, consecrated life and the work of Bunin, indicated that A.I. became the prototype of the hero. Pusheshnikov is a relative of Bunin.
Plot Features
The singularity of Bunin's story lies, first of all, in the fact that there is no traditional plot as such in Antonov's Apples. At its core, the story contains a fragmentary image of memories lyrical hero.
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All these moments are united by the personality of the protagonist and the general emotional mood. The story is completely lacking plot dynamics. The plot of the work consists in the accumulation of various memories, the key element for the appearance of which and their functioning was the smell of Antonov apples, which changes in the same way as events in the life of the hero.
Symbolically for Bunin, summer is associated with the flourishing of landlordism - it was at this time that the smell of apples was especially significant and strong. However, gradually the gold of autumn changes from gray to gray and unsightly colors - in this way, the harmony and cyclicity of nature is achieved.
The story consists of four parts. In the first one, the reader learns about nostalgic memories of the village and carefree life, and here the image of Antonov apples appears.
In the second part, we will learn about the autumn season. Wealthy old women and old men take care of shrouds and gravestones. Here the lyrical hero is transferred in his memories to the estate to Anna Gerasimovna, his aunt. In this part, the image of Antonov's apples is enhanced, which for the hero become the key moments of autumn.
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In the third part, the reader sees a different autumn - cold and damp. The hero is transferred to the estate of Arseny Semenovich and indulges in the memory of hunting and former enthusiasm.
The final, fourth part tells about the autumn melancholy and despondency - at this time Antonov apples no longer smell. The hero is distressed by the decline and absence of the landownership.
It is no coincidence that the novel was divided into four parts - with their help, the author depicts the life cycle and the onset of maturity instead of youth.
Theme and idea of the work
Despite the absence of a traditional plot, the theme and idea are traditionally distinguished in the story.
The theme of "Antonov apples" is the hero's regret in connection with the desolation of the landowners and their estates. Nostalgia for a wonderful time overwhelms the protagonist.
An accompanying element is the theme of harmony and sublimity of nature.
The idea is to poetically depict the world of landlordism, which has fallen into decay in every sense of the word.
Ivan Bunin notes that everything in this world comes and goes. Very often, all life images and symbols change over time. And this is not surprising, because a person's life is also very changeable - not only events change, but also the perception of certain elements in the life of a hero.
Artistic features of the story
According to most researchers, the story "Antonov apples" by Bunin can be attributed to poetry in prose. The text of the story has an incredible lyricism that makes it related to poetic works.
The story in its artistic content is similar to watercolor paintings. The story contains many color elements - Bunin successfully plays with color and color transitions - in his work all colors live their own lives. Such a color gradation contributes to the perception of the story as an unusual artistic phenomenon, with its help the reality of the picture described by Bunin is created.
Natalya Polyakova
One of the main features of I.A. Bunin's prose, which is usually immediately noted by students, is, of course, the absence of a plot in the usual way, that is, the absence of event dynamics. Students who are already familiar with the concepts of “epic” and “lyrical” plot come to the conclusion that the plot in “Antonov apples” is lyrical, that is, based not on events, but on the experience of the hero.
The very first words of the work: “...I remember an early fine autumn” - carry a lot of information and give food for thought: the work begins with an ellipsis, that is, what is described has neither origins nor history, it is as if snatched from the very elements of life, from its endless stream. With the first word “remembered”, the author immediately plunges the reader into the element of his own (“me”) memories. The plot develops as a chain of memories and sensations associated with them. Since we have a memory in front of us, then, therefore, we are talking about the past. But in Bunin, in relation to the past, verbs of the present tense are used (“it smells of apples”, “it becomes very cold ...”, “we listen for a long time and distinguish trembling in the ground”, and so on). For Bunin's lyrical hero, what is described does not take place in the past, but in the present, now. This relativity of time is also one of the characteristic features Bunin's poetics.
Memory is a complex of physical sensations. The world perceived by all human senses: sight, hearing, touch, smell, taste.
One of the main leitmotif images in the work is probably the image of smell, which accompanies the entire story from beginning to end. In addition to the main leitmotif that permeates the entire work - the smell of Antonov apples - there are other smells here: “strongly pulls with fragrant cherry boughs smoke”, “rye aroma of new straw and chaff”, “the smell of apples, and then others: old red furniture tree, dried linden blossom, which has been lying on the windows since June...”, “these books, similar to church breviaries, smell nice... Some kind of pleasant sour mold, old perfumes...”, “smell of smoke, dwelling” ...
Bunin recreates the special beauty and uniqueness of complex smells, what is called synthesis, a “bouquet” of aromas: “the delicate aroma of fallen leaves and the smell of Antonov apples, the smell of honey and autumn freshness”, “the ravines smell strongly of mushroom dampness, rotted leaves and wet tree bark."
The special role of the image of smell in the plot of the work is also due to the fact that over time the nature of smells changes from subtle, barely perceptible harmonious natural aromas in the first and second parts of the story to sharp, unpleasant smells that seem to be some kind of dissonance in the surrounding world - in the second, third and fourth parts of it (“the smell of smoke”, “it smells like dog in the locked hallway”, the smell of “cheap tobacco” or “just shag”).
Smells change - life itself, its foundations change. The change of historical patterns is shown by Bunin as a change in the personal feelings of the hero, a change in worldview.
The visual images in the work are as clear and graphic as possible: “the black sky is drawn with fiery stripes by shooting stars”, “small foliage has almost completely flown from the coastal vines, and the branches are visible in the turquoise sky”, “liquid blue shone coldly and brightly in the north above heavy lead clouds the sky, and because of these clouds, the ridges of snowy mountains-clouds slowly floated out”, “the black garden will shine through in the cold turquoise sky and dutifully wait for winter ... And the fields are already sharply turning black with arable land and brightly green with overgrown winters.” Such a “cinematic” image, built on contrasts, creates for the reader the illusion of an action taking place before the eyes or captured on the artist’s canvas: “In the dark, in the depths of the garden, there is a fabulous picture: just in the corner of hell, a crimson flame is burning near the hut, surrounded by darkness , and someone's black silhouettes, as if carved from ebony, move around the fire, while giant shadows from them walk through the apple trees. Either a black hand a few arshins in size will lie down all over the tree, then two legs will be clearly drawn - two black pillars. And suddenly all this will slip from the apple tree - and the shadow will fall along the entire alley, from the hut to the very gate ... "
Highly important role color plays in the picture of the surrounding world. Like the smell, it is a plot-forming element, changing noticeably throughout the story. In the first chapters we see "crimson flame", "turquoise sky"; “the diamond seven-star Stozhar, the blue sky, the golden light of the low sun” - a similar color scheme, built not even on the colors themselves, but on their shades, conveys the diversity of the surrounding world and its emotional perception by the hero. But with a change in attitude, the colors of the surrounding world also change, colors gradually disappear from it: “The days are bluish, cloudy ... All day long I wander through the empty plains”, “low gloomy sky”, “gray gentleman”. Halftones and shades (“turquoise”, “purple” and others), which are present in abundance in the first parts of the work, are replaced by the contrast of black and white (“black garden”, “fields turn sharply black with arable land ... fields turn white”, “snowy fields” ). Against a black and white background, Bunin the painter unexpectedly applies a very ominous stroke: “a dead seasoned wolf stains the floor with his pale and already cold blood.”
But, perhaps, the epithet “golden” is the most common one in the work: “big, all golden ... garden”, “golden city of grain”, “golden frames”, “golden light of the sun”.
The semantics of this image is extremely extensive: this and direct meaning(“golden frames”), and the designation of the color of autumn foliage, and the transmission emotional state hero, the solemnity of the minutes of the evening sunset, and a sign of abundance (grain, apples), once inherent in Russia, and a symbol of youth, the “golden” time of the hero’s life.
With all the variety of meanings, one thing can be stated: Bunin’s epithet “golden” refers to the past tense, being a characteristic of noble, outgoing Russia. The reader associates this epithet with another concept: the “golden age” Russian life, an age of relative prosperity, abundance, solidity and strength of being.
This is how I.A. Bunin sees the passing century.
The elements of life, its diversity, movement are also conveyed in the work by sounds: “the cool silence of the morning is broken only by the well-fed clucking of thrushes ... voices and the booming clatter of apples poured into measures and tubs”, “We listen for a long time and distinguish trembling in the earth. The trembling turns into noise, grows, and now, as if already beyond the garden, the wheels are rapidly knocking out a noisy beat, rumbling and knocking, the train rushes ... closer, closer, louder and more angry ... And suddenly it begins to subside, stall, as if sinking into the ground...”, “a horn blows in the yard and dogs howl in different voices”, “you can hear how the gardener carefully walks around the rooms, melting the stoves, and how the firewood crackles and shoots”. All these infinitely varied sounds, merging, seem to create a symphony of life itself in Bunin's work.
Sensual perception of the world is supplemented in “Antonov apples” with tactile images: “with pleasure you feel the slippery leather of the saddle under you”, “thick rough paper” - and taste: “all through pink boiled ham with peas, stuffed chicken, turkey, marinades and red kvass – strong and sweet-sweet...”, “... a cold and wet apple... for some reason will seem unusually tasty, not at all like the others.”
Thus, noting the instant sensations of the hero from contact with outside world, Bunin strives to convey everything “deep, wonderful, inexpressible that is in life” 1 .
With maximum accuracy and expressiveness, the attitude of the hero of "Antonov apples" is expressed by the words: "How cold, dewy, and how good it is to live in the world!" The hero in his youth is characterized by an acute experience of joy and the fullness of being: “my chest breathed greedily and capaciously”, “you keep thinking about how good it is to mow, thresh, sleep on the threshing floor in omyot...”
However, as most researchers note, in the artistic world of Bunin, the joy of life is always combined with the tragic consciousness of its finiteness. As E.Maximova writes, “already early work suggests that the imagination of Bunin the man and Bunin the writer is entirely occupied by the mystery of life and death, the incomprehensibility of this mystery” 2 . The writer constantly remembers that “everything living, material, bodily is certainly subject to death” 3 . And in “Antonov apples” the motif of the extinction, the dying of everything that is so dear to the hero, is one of the main ones: “The smell of Antonov apples disappears from the landowners’ estates ... The old people died in Vyselki, Anna Gerasimovna died, Arseniy Semenych shot himself ...”
It is not just the former way of life that dies - an entire era of Russian history, the noble era, poeticized by Bunin in this work, dies. By the end of the story, the motif of emptiness and cold becomes more and more distinct and persistent.
This is shown with particular force in the image of a garden, once “big, golden”, filled with sounds, aromas, but now - “frozen during the night, naked”, “blackened”, as well as artistic details, the most expressive of which is found “in wet foliage accidentally forgotten cold and wet apple”, which “for some reason will seem unusually tasty, not at all like the others”.
This is how, at the level of personal feelings and experiences of the hero, Bunin depicts the process of degeneration of the nobility taking place in Russia, which brings with it irreparable losses in spiritual and cultural terms: ... Good ... notes in their margins, large and with round soft strokes, made with a quill pen. You open the book and read: “A thought worthy of ancient and new philosophers, the flower of reason and feeling of the heart”... and you will involuntarily be carried away by the book itself... And little by little a sweet and strange longing begins to creep into your heart...
"Antonov apples": artistic originality
Natalya Polyakova
One of the main features of I.A. Bunin's prose, which is usually immediately noted by students, is, of course, the absence of a plot in the usual way, that is, the absence of event dynamics. Students who are already familiar with the concepts of “epic” and “lyrical” plot come to the conclusion that the plot in “Antonov apples” is lyrical, that is, based not on events, but on the experience of the hero.
The very first words of the work: “...I remember an early fine autumn” - carry a lot of information and give food for thought: the work begins with an ellipsis, that is, what is described has neither origins nor history, it is as if snatched from the very elements of life, from its endless stream. With the first word “remembered”, the author immediately plunges the reader into the element of his own (“me”) memories. The plot develops as a chain of memories and sensations associated with them. Since we have a memory in front of us, then, therefore, we are talking about the past. But in Bunin, in relation to the past, verbs of the present tense are used (“it smells of apples”, “it becomes very cold ...”, “we listen for a long time and distinguish trembling in the ground”, and so on). For Bunin's lyrical hero, what is described does not take place in the past, but in the present, now. This relativity of time is also one of the characteristic features of Bunin's poetics.
Memory is a complex of physical sensations. The surrounding world is perceived by all organs of human senses: sight, hearing, touch, smell, taste.
One of the main leitmotif images in the work is probably the image of smell, which accompanies the entire story from beginning to end. In addition to the main leitmotif that permeates the entire work, the smell of Antonov apples, there are other smells here: “strongly pulls with fragrant cherry boughs smoke”, “rye aroma of new straw and chaff”, “the smell of apples, and then others: old red furniture tree, dried linden blossom, which has been lying on the windows since June...”, “these books, similar to church breviaries, smell nice... Some kind of pleasant sour mold, old perfumes...”, “smell of smoke, dwelling” ...
Bunin recreates the special beauty and uniqueness of complex smells, what is called synthesis, a “bouquet” of aromas: “the delicate aroma of fallen leaves and the smell of Antonov apples, the smell of honey and autumn freshness”, “the ravines smell strongly of mushroom dampness, rotted leaves and wet tree bark."
The special role of the image of smell in the plot of the work is also due to the fact that over time, the nature of smells changes from subtle, barely perceptible harmonious natural aromas in the first and second parts of the story to sharp, unpleasant smells that seem to be some kind of dissonance in the surrounding world - in the second, third and fourth parts of it (“the smell of smoke”, “it smells like dog in the locked hallway”, the smell of “cheap tobacco” or “just shag”).
Smells change - life itself, its foundations change. The change of historical patterns is shown by Bunin as a change in the personal feelings of the hero, a change in worldview.
The visual images in the work are as clear and graphic as possible: “the black sky is drawn with fiery stripes by shooting stars”, “small foliage has almost completely flown from the coastal vines, and the branches are visible in the turquoise sky”, “liquid blue shone coldly and brightly in the north above heavy lead clouds the sky, and because of these clouds, the ridges of snowy mountains-clouds slowly floated out”, “the black garden will shine through in the cold turquoise sky and dutifully wait for winter ... And the fields are already sharply turning black with arable land and brightly green with overgrown winters.” Such a “cinematic” image, built on contrasts, creates for the reader the illusion of an action taking place before the eyes or captured on the artist’s canvas: “In the dark, in the depths of the garden, there is a fabulous picture: just in the corner of hell, a crimson flame is burning near the hut, surrounded by darkness , and someone's black silhouettes, as if carved from ebony, move around the fire, while giant shadows from them walk through the apple trees. Either a black hand a few arshins in size will lie down all over the tree, then two legs will be clearly drawn - two black pillars. And suddenly all this will slip from the apple tree - and the shadow will fall along the entire alley, from the hut to the very gate ... "
Color plays a very important role in the picture of the surrounding world. Like the smell, it is a plot-forming element, changing noticeably throughout the story. In the first chapters we see "crimson flame", "turquoise sky"; “diamond seven-star Stozhar, blue sky, golden light of the low sun” - such a color scheme, built not even on the colors themselves, but on their shades, conveys the diversity of the world around and its emotional perception by the hero. But with a change in attitude, the colors of the surrounding world also change, colors gradually disappear from it: “The days are bluish, cloudy ... All day long I wander through the empty plains”, “low gloomy sky”, “gray gentleman”. Halftones and shades (“turquoise”, “purple” and others), which are present in abundance in the first parts of the work, are replaced by the contrast of black and white (“black garden”, “fields turn sharply black with arable land ... fields turn white”, “snowy fields” ). Against a black and white background, Bunin the painter unexpectedly applies a very ominous stroke: “a dead seasoned wolf stains the floor with his pale and already cold blood.”
But, perhaps, the epithet “golden” is the most common one in the work: “big, all golden ... garden”, “golden city of grain”, “golden frames”, “golden light of the sun”.
The semantics of this image is extremely extensive: it is both a direct meaning (“golden frames”), and a designation of the color of autumn foliage, and the transfer of the emotional state of the hero, the solemnity of the minutes of the evening sunset, and a sign of abundance (grain, apples), once inherent in Russia, and a symbol of youth , the "golden" time of the hero's life.
With all the variety of meanings, one thing can be stated: Bunin’s epithet “golden” refers to the past tense, being a characteristic of noble, outgoing Russia. The reader associates this epithet with another concept: the “golden age” of Russian life, the age of relative prosperity, abundance, solidity and strength of being.
This is how I.A. Bunin sees the passing century.
The elements of life, its diversity, movement are also conveyed in the work by sounds: “the cool silence of the morning is broken only by the well-fed clucking of thrushes ... voices and the booming clatter of apples poured into measures and tubs”, “We listen for a long time and distinguish trembling in the earth. The trembling turns into noise, grows, and now, as if already beyond the garden, the wheels are rapidly knocking out a noisy beat, rumbling and knocking, the train rushes ... closer, closer, louder and more angry ... And suddenly it begins to subside, stall, as if sinking into the ground...”, “a horn blows in the yard and dogs howl in different voices”, “you can hear how the gardener carefully walks around the rooms, melting the stoves, and how the firewood crackles and shoots”. All these infinitely varied sounds, merging, seem to create a symphony of life itself in Bunin's work.
Sensual perception of the world is supplemented in “Antonov apples” with tactile images: “with pleasure you feel the slippery leather of the saddle under you”, “thick rough paper” - and taste: “all through pink boiled ham with peas, stuffed chicken, turkey, marinades and red kvass - strong and sweet-sweet...”, “... a cold and wet apple... for some reason it will seem unusually tasty, not at all like the others.”
Thus, noting the instantaneous sensations of the hero from contact with the outside world, Bunin seeks to convey all that “deep, wonderful, inexpressible that is in life” 1 .
With maximum accuracy and expressiveness, the attitude of the hero of "Antonov apples" is expressed by the words: "How cold, dewy, and how good it is to live in the world!" The hero in his youth is characterized by an acute experience of joy and the fullness of being: “my chest breathed greedily and capaciously”, “you keep thinking about how good it is to mow, thresh, sleep on the threshing floor in omyot...”
However, as most researchers note, in the artistic world of Bunin, the joy of life is always combined with the tragic consciousness of its finiteness. As E.Maximova writes, “already early work suggests that the imagination of Bunin the man and Bunin the writer is entirely occupied by the mystery of life and death, the incomprehensibility of this mystery” 2 . The writer constantly remembers that “everything living, material, bodily is certainly subject to death” 3 . And in “Antonov apples” the motif of the extinction, the dying of everything that is so dear to the hero, is one of the main ones: “The smell of Antonov apples disappears from the landowners’ estates ... The old people died in Vyselki, Anna Gerasimovna died, Arseniy Semenych shot himself ...”
Not just the old way of life is dying - a whole era of Russian history is dying, the era of the nobility, poeticized by Bunin in this work. By the end of the story, the motif of emptiness and cold becomes more and more distinct and persistent.
This is shown with particular force in the image of a garden, once “big, golden”, filled with sounds, aromas, but now - “frozen during the night, naked”, “blackened”, as well as artistic details, the most expressive of which is found “in wet foliage accidentally forgotten cold and wet apple”, which “for some reason will seem unusually tasty, not at all like the others”.
This is how, at the level of personal feelings and experiences of the hero, Bunin depicts the process of degeneration of the nobility taking place in Russia, which brings with it irreparable losses in spiritual and cultural terms: ... Good ... notes in their margins, large and with round soft strokes, made with a quill pen. You open the book and read: “A thought worthy of ancient and new philosophers, the flower of reason and feeling of the heart”... and you will involuntarily be carried away by the book itself... And little by little a sweet and strange longing begins to creep into your heart...
And here are the magazines with the names of Zhukovsky, Batyushkov, the lyceum student Pushkin. And with sadness you will remember your grandmother, her clavichord polonaises, her languid recitation of poems from “Eugene Onegin”. And the old dreamy life will stand before you...”
Poetizing the past, its “past century”, the author cannot but think about its future. This motif appears at the end of the story in the form of future tense verbs: “Soon, soon the fields will turn white, winter will soon cover them ...” The reception of repetition enhances the sad lyrical note; images of a bare forest, empty fields emphasize the dreary tone of the ending of the work.
The future is uncertain, it causes unsettling forebodings. The image of the first snow that covered the fields is symbolic: for all its ambiguity, students often associate it with a new blank sheet of paper, and given that the date “1900” is placed under the work, the question involuntarily arises: what will he write new Age on this white, spotless sheet, what marks will he leave on it? The lyrical dominant of the work is epithets: “sad, hopeless boldness”...
Lyrics to the song that ends the piece:
wide my gates dissolved,
White snow path- road swept... -
once again convey the feeling of the unknown, the ambiguity of the path.
The dots with which the work begins and ends make it clear that everything expressed in it, as already noted, is only a fragment snatched from the endless stream of life.
On the material of the story “Antonov apples”, students get acquainted with the main feature of Bunin’s poetics: the perception of reality as a continuous flow, expressed at the level of human sensations, experiences, feelings, and enrich their understanding of the genre of lyrical prose, which is especially vividly represented in the work of I.A. Bunin. According to Yu. Maltsev, in Bunin's works "poetry and prose merge into a completely new synthetic genre" 4 .
Bibliography
1 Bunin I.A. Sobr. cit.: V 9 t. M., 1966. V. 5. S. 180.
2 MaksimovaE. About miniatures by I.A. Bunin // Russian Literature. 1997. No. 1.
3 Bunin I.A. Sobr. cit.: In 9 volumes ... V. 6. S. 44.
4 Maltsev Yu. Ivan Bunin: 1870-1953. Frankfurt am Main-Moscow: Posev, 1994. S. 272.
Ivan Alekseevich Bunin deeply and sincerely loved his homeland. All his works are permeated with a touching feeling of aching sadness, love for nature and the Motherland. One of such vivid works of the great Russian writer is the story "Antonov apples", where the writer regrets the passing past. Let's take a look at the analysis of the work.
Brief analysis
Year of writing- 1900
History of creation— The idea of writing a story was inspired by the aroma of ripe apples, which he felt when he was visiting his brother's estate.
Topic– The main theme of the work is regret for the nobility, which is gradually fading into the past, and the big theme of love for nature.
Composition- The story consists of four parts, which reflect the periods of the life of Russia, its past, present and future.
Genre- Narration belongs to the genre of a story, composed of several parts in the form of a monologue.
Direction - Realism.
History of creation
When analyzing the work in Antonov Apples, it is necessary to mention its history of creation, which gave the main idea to this story.
The writer stayed at his brother's estate, surrounded by orchards. He came from the nobility, in the estates of which gardens were necessarily implied, as a sign of nobility.
One day the writer left his brother's house and was flooded with the aroma of Antonov apples. This sweet and fragrant smell aroused in the writer nostalgia for the past time, inspired memories of a bygone youth. The writer was pierced by sadness for the passing time, and he had the idea to express his nostalgic feelings about the past on paper. The idea firmly settled in the soul of the writer, but he realized his idea of writing this story only nine years later. This is how Bunin's story "Antonov apples" was created, and nine years passed from conception to implementation, the year of writing - 1900. The nostalgic work is dedicated to the memories of the outgoing nobility.
Topic
In the meaning of the title of his story, the writer puts sadness and sadness about the passing time. The smell of apples, sweet and at the same time tart, embodies the state of his poetic soul in the writer's intention. His memoirs have - the same shade, sometimes they are sweet and happy when the author recalls the past. About the time when the nobility lived in full bloom, a pure and righteous life. Everything was busy with worries and work, there was no place for bad habits and boredom.
The bitterness of memories is given by the moment when the writer realizes that the nobility has gradually declined, that calm and measured life is no longer there, and society has begun to wallow in vices.
Before the eyes of the narrator are memories of people whom he once knew. The heroes of his memoirs are as close and dear to the poet as all his past. The ensuing problems of the ruin and devastation of noble family nests run through the entire narrative of the author.
With his expressive artistic means, the author skillfully managed to awaken in each reader memories dear to his heart.
The meaning of the work is to show an even and serene picture of the past, idealizing and embellishing it, bypassing sharp corners reality. Touch the hidden corners of the reader's soul so that these memories are only constructive in nature, cleansing from filth and malice.
Analysis of the story leads to the conclusion that this work leads to high moral thoughts, allows readers to renounce everything dirty and obscene, leads to true purification of the soul, and gives rise to the desire for high ideals. The problematic of the story is not only in regret about the past nobility. The theme of nature is also deeply developed in the work. The author is rightfully considered an unsurpassed poet, singing native nature. Bunin not only loves nature, he understands and knows it well. No writer can compare with him in the description of nature. This is that emotional and deeply feeling person, so much nature loving that even one smell of apples allows him to create a brilliant work.
Composition
The compositional structure of the story is interesting, the features of the composition include dots both at the beginning and at the end of the work. Between these dots are four chapters of the story. Such features carry the fact that the story, as it were, has no beginning and no end. This is just a piece of life, taken from some moment, and not ending with anything, but giving food for thought about the coming future.
In the composition of the text, there is, as it were, the absence of a plot, there is no dynamic development in it. The whole story is in the form of a monologue.
The story, this inner monologue of the writer, is divided into four parts. Each of the parts makes up a certain picture of the past, and together they form one whole. All four parts of the work are subordinated to one theme. Using artistic means, features of the composition, in each of these parts, the author describes the life and life of the nobility, its culture. He describes both the rise of the nobility and its decline. With a slight sadness, in each of the four chapters, the writer talks about the past, suggesting the inevitability of a new future. In each of these parts, in each line, he urges the reader not to forget about the past, to remember their homeland and ancestors, to preserve traditions, and only then can a new happy future be built.
The composition of the work ends with the words of the song, the allegorical meaning of the author of which is expressed in the fact that history inevitably moves forward, sweeping away its past.
Genre
Bunin's work belongs to the genre of the story. Bunin, a singer of nature and a poet, used poetic motifs in his narration, and "Antonov's Apples" can be safely called a poetic story, a lyrical story of a realistic direction.
Criticism was ambiguous in their judgments about the work, the fact that the story became a classic speaks of its genius.
For his collection of poems "Leaf Fall" he receives an award. And this is absolutely not in vain. His poetic works harmoniously and gently intertwine the sadness of Russian landscapes and the sadness of Russian life.
With his pen, a wonderful story "Antonov apples" was created. it creative work Bunina is rather peculiar, very interesting and beautiful in writing.
The story requires more than one reading in order to see the essence of what is written, in order to understand the plot.
After the first reading, the reader is puzzled by the question of where is the climax and where is the plot of the story. To deal with these questions, you need to sit down for the story again, and consistently read each line.
The peculiarity of the "Antonov apples" is visible at the very beginning. It is the ellipsis that begins the story. After it, images appear that the reader creates in his imagination - this is a garden, with thinned trunks, alleys of maples. What happens next? We feel the aroma of Antonov apples, we pay attention to the peculiar sounds. Using all our senses, we plunge into the atmosphere that the author has created for us.
For example, let us recall the conversation of such heroes as Pankrat and the priest. The conversation, the attitude of these two men allows us to feel that life, that infusion of people who are having a friendly conversation.
In the story "", the author unusually describes the estate of the landowner. He makes her alive, portrays her as an animated object, considering the facade to look like an old face. And this is true, because the estates in the 19th century represent life and spiritual development. It is in this life that the reader is immersed. In the summer we follow the hunting process, in the winter we follow the passionate reading of books. And with what pleasure books are read, with sincerity, with thoughts about one's origins, about ancestors, about life in the old days.
Bunin in "Antonov apples" shows us Russia itself and its life. And the mastery of the author allows us to feel all those emotions and feelings that he wants to convey to each of us.