RUDN Journal of Studies in Literature and JournalismRUDN Journal of Studies in Literature and Journalism2312-92202312-9247Peoples’ Friendship University of Russia named after Patrice Lumumba (RUDN University)2101210.22363/2312-9220-2019-24-1-27-34Research ArticleI.A. Bunin and S.N. Durylin: problems of creative dialogueKorshunovaEvgenia Alexandrovna<p>PhD of the Department of Modern Russian Literature and Contemporary Literary Process</p>zhenyakorshunova@gmail.comLomonosov Moscow State University15122019241273427042019Copyright © 2019, Korshunova E.A.2019<p>The article is devoted to the consideration of the creative connections of I.A. Bunin and S.N. Durylin (1887-1954). In modern literary criticism, the question of studying the creative connections of S.N. Durylin and I.A. Bunin is urgent, which was not touched upon by the researchers. Although Durylin does not belong to the writers of emigration, in Russia he almost immediately finds himself in internal emigration: art works and scientific works were not published. This brought him closer to Bunins position. First of all, Durylin is interested in Bunins story The Village, in which the Russian question is touched. But, if in the story Village the writer does not fully accept the Bunin idea of Russia as a country of the wild and primeval, then in the Life of Arseniev the model of Russian life recreated by the author finds a response in Durylins creative consciousness. In the memoir book In his corner the author recreates the immanent image of Bunins native land. Brings together the writers of the perception of the revolution of 1917 as a breakdown, a catastrophe, a lyric narrative, a structureforming function of memory. However, if Bunins pre-revolutionary pictures of Russian life are the center of the narrative, then Durylin serves as a background (and a window into an ideal past), the focus of writers attention is the post-revolutionary process of the death of the healthy beginnings of Russian life, embodied in the form of snow.</p>BuninDurylinthe image of Russiamemoirsmemory categorycreative dialogueemigrationБунинДурылинобраз Россиимемуарыкатегория памятитворческий диалогэмиграция[Bunin I.A. Polnoe sobranie sochinenij: v 13 t. T. 5. Zhizn’ Arsen’eva: roman (1927—1929; 1933); Bozh’e drevo: rasskazy (1927—1931) [Collected works]. M.: Voskresen’e, 2006. 480 p.][Durylin S.N. V svoem uglu [In his corner]. M.: Molodaja gvardija, 2006. 879 p.][Durylin S.N. V svoem uglu [In his corner]. Tetrad’ vtoraja // Memorial’nyj arhiv Doma-muzeja S.N. Durylina. F. S.N. Durylina. Kp-265/3-4. Mashinopis’. L. 9—10.][Durylin S.N. Rasskazy, povesti i hroniki [Novels, stories and chronicles]. SPb.: Vladimir Dal’, 2014. 863 p.][Durylin S.N. Stat’i i issledovanija 1900—1920 godov [Articles and researches of 1900—1920]. SPb.: Vladimir Dal’, 2014. 895 p.][Esaulov I.A. Rossija Bunina: mif, model’, real’nost’? [Russia Bunina: myth, model, reality?] // Tvorcheskoe nasledie I.A.Bunina v kontekste sovremennyh gumanitarnyh issledovanij. Elec, 2015. P. 15.][Reznichenko A.I. O smyslah imen: Bulgakov, Losev, Florenskij, Frank et dii minores [About meanings of names: Bulgakov, Losev, Florensky, Frank et dii minores]. M.: Izdatel’skij dom REGNUM, 2012. 415 p.][Sergej Durylin i ego vremja. Issledovanija. Teksty. Bibliografija. Kn. 1. Issledovanija [Sergey Durylin and his time: Researches. Texts. Bibliography. Book 1. Researches]. M.: Modest Kolerov, 2010. 512 p.]