(346 words) Ivan Alekseevich Bunin - poet and writer, the first Russian Nobel laureate, one of the most prominent representatives of the Silver Age. In his work, several main themes can be distinguished: nature, love and death.
Ivan Alekseevich has always attached great importance to the theme of nature, and landscape details played an important role in his works. They helped to understand the thoughts of the characters, their feelings. So, in the story “Late Night”, the hero has to remember all the best in himself, looking at the pale month that once shone in his children's bedroom. The book "Antonov apples" begins with an unusually beautiful picture of autumn. Throughout the entire work, we readers are accompanied by various smells: cherry twigs, straw, apples. They inspire the main character with bright memories from his life, make him nostalgic. According to Bunin, man and nature are inextricably linked with each other and cannot exist separately, which cannot be disagreed.
Love also takes up a lot of space in the writer's work. This can be understood by reading at least a few works from the Dark Alleys series. For example, the story “Sunstroke” tells us about a man and a woman who, after a love affair, parted forever. The author makes it clear that they will never see each other again and will not write to each other, because none of them even said their name. In "Clean Monday" everything ends no less sadly: the main character decides to leave her companion and go to the monastery. The man is very hard going through this parting and cannot reconcile with the departure of his lover.
Bunin’s love stories end dramatically, the main characters find themselves alone and lose interest in life. This, in my opinion, is his "calling card."
We can see the theme of death in the story “Mr. from San Francisco,” where a wealthy American suddenly dies while traveling. Despite his high status, the men decide to put the body in a soda box so that the rest of the tourists do not know anything, and their fun does not stop. With this work, Bunin wanted to show us how insignificant human life is in this vast world, and how helpless man himself is, regardless of his social status.
Thus, the main themes of the work of Ivan Alekseevich Bunin allow us to get to know the writer much better, to understand what is important and important to him. In my opinion, nature, love and death are eternal problems that are always relevant.
