“Strange” Features of Beauty of a Russian Woman (Based on the Story “Pure Monday” by I. A. Bunin)
https://doi.org/10.18384/2949-5148-2024-2-17-22
Abstract
Aim. To identify the anthropological and metaphysical features of Bunin’s understanding of female beauty based on the story “Pure Monday”.
Methodology. The study relies on hermeneutical, logical-semantic, cultural and textual analysis of the story “Pure Monday” in the context of the entire literary work of I. A. Bunin, as well as the corresponding philosophical and literary works of several authors from I. A. Ilyin to Maxim D. Schraer..
Results. A conclusion was made about the antinomically true nature of Bunin’s original view of Russian female beauty. The “strange” and undoubted novelty of Bunin’s description of the female body and female beauty organically acquired the unexpected, unpredictable formula of the Chalcedonian Orthodox dogma with its “not merged, not transformed, indivisible, inseparable” principle, which has special significance for the Russian creative consciousness.
Research implications. Bunin’s view of Russian female beauty is epistemologically and aesthetically concretized.
About the Authors
T. V. Bokareva
Domodedovo Lyceum No. 3 named after Hero of the Soviet Union Yu. P. Maksimov
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
Tatyana V. Bokareva, Teacher
Department of Philosophy
142000; ul. Kolomiytsa 4; Domodedovo
P. V. Kalitin
Bauman Moscow State Technical University
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
Pyotr V. Kalitin, Dr. Sci. (Philosophy), Prof.
105005; ul. 2-ya Baumanskaya 5; Moscow
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