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A forgotten poem by I.A. Bunin

D.N. Zhatkin, N.L. Vasilyev
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UDC 821.161.1-1

https://doi.org/10.20339/PhS.1-21.133

 

Zhatkin Dmitry N.,

Doctor of Philology, Professor,

Head of the Translation and Methods of Translation Department

Penza State Technological University

e-mail: ivb40@yandex.ru

 

Vasilyev Nikolay L.,

Doctor of Philology, Professor

of the Russian Language Department

Ogarev National Research Mordovia State University

e-mail: nikolai_vasiliev@mail.ru

 

The article introduces into scientific circulation a poem which was not included into the collected

works of I.A. Bunin (1870–1953) and in the reference and bibliographic literature about the writer’s creative work: “Deaf Anxiety — how hard you hurt me!..”, published under his name on July 2, 1896 in the newspaper “Odessa news” — among two other well-known works of the poet: “The Tide (Dedicated to. A.M. Fedorov)”, “From Petrarch”. This poem was probably written in Odessa, where Bunin stayed for a few days at the dacha of his friend, the poet, translator, and journalist A.M. Fyodorov (1868– 1949), who helped to published Bunin's poems in three issues of the “Odessa news” (1896. June  16, 23, and July, 2). Both writers were fascinated at this time by the creative works of the Italian poet A. Nеgri (1870–1945) and tried to translate them with the help of their friends who knew Italian. However, there are no direct comparisons with the poetry of A. Nеgri in Bunin’s poem. Nevertheless, understanding of the poetics of the forgotten classic poet helps to clarify the evolution of Bunin’s creative works, in particular to see elements of elegiac romanticism and presymbolism in his earlypoetry.

Keywords: I.A. Bunin, little-known poems, A.M. Fedorov, Odessa, “Odessa news”, A. Nеgri.

 

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