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M. I. Zhurina THE IMAGE OF COLOMBO IN THE PROSE WORKS OF I. A. BUNIN // I. YAKOVLEV CHUVASH STATE PEDAGOGICAL UNIVERSITY BULLETIN. 2024. № 1(122). p. 22-27
Author(s):
M. I. Zhurina
Index of UDK:
821.161.1.09-3Бунин
Index of DOI:
10.37972/chgpu.2024.122.1.003
Name of article:
THE IMAGE OF COLOMBO IN THE PROSE WORKS OF I. A. BUNIN
Keywords:
the city of Colombo, prose works by I. A. Bunin, “Brothers”, , image
Abstracts:
This article is devoted to the consideration of the artistic image of the city of Colombo (Republic of Sri Lanka) in the prose works of the Russian writer I. A. Bunin, who visited the island of Ceylon in March 1911. The relevance of the research and its scientific novelty are determined by the interest in a little-studied aspect of the writer’s literary heritage – his depiction of the city of Colombo in the stories of the 10-20s of the 20th century, as well as in the sketch “The Foggy Strip of the Land…”, introduced into scientific circulation in 2019. Bunin’s literary image of Colombo is topographically correct, which is confirmed by the presence of names of city streets (York Street, Queens Street), parks (Victoria Park), gardens (Gordon Garden), districts (Colombo Fort, Cinnamon Gardens, Slave Island, Maradana) in the artistic fabric of the story “Brothers”. The Slave Island area, repeatedly mentioned in the text, implements the semantics of irreparable loss, a ruinous beginning in the life of a young rickshaw driver. “City Lights” as a figurative detail creates a parallelism of life events in the biographies of Sinhalese and the Englishman, conveying the author’s idea of the primordial brotherhood of all people. The contrasting appearance of Colombo, combining the vegetable abundance of paradise gardens, the urban development achievements of Holland and England, the “peoples of all countries” and the inhuman cruelty of colonialism, which received black-white and gold coloring from the evening sun, reflects the author’s own idea of the Ceylon world as a whole, about complexity, inconsistency and incomprehensible mystery being.
The contact details of authors:
Журина Марина Ивановна – кандидат филологических наук, доцент кафедры русской и чувашской филологии и культурологии Чувашского государственного педагогического университета им. И. Я. Яковлева, г. Чебоксары, Россия, https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3302-328X, ds52556@chebnet.com
