(315 words) Love is one of the most celebrated feelings. It inspires artists, architects, musicians, writers. There is not a single artist who would not have touched on the theme of love in creativity. This work examines how two great Russian writers of the 20th century, A.I. Kuprin and I.A. Bunin.
To understand what love is, according to Ivan Alekseevich Bunin, you need to open his collection of short stories "Dark Alleys." It is in these forty works that the theme of love runs through the whole book with a red thread. The author does not show happy endings, his love is a bright moment that the heroes will never forget, but this is only an instant. The writer compares love with sunstroke: a dazzling flash that plunges a person into a semi-conscious state - a sense of happiness that illuminates his existence. So, in the first story of the collection, by the name of which he was named, the peasant Nadezhda, throughout her life, carried her love for master Nikolai Alekseevich, despite the fact that he had already forgotten her a long time ago, and did not even immediately recognize when he stayed with her the inn. But the nobleman himself with deep sadness admits to himself that the time of falling in love with the heroine was the happiest time in his life.
Alexander Ivanovich Kuprin did not pass over the topic of love. Probably, everyone knows this touching story of the petty official Zheltkov from the story “Garnet Bracelet”, who unrequitedly loved married Princess Vera Nikolaevna. The author in his works shows that only heroes pure in soul are capable of a real bright feeling, such is both Zheltkov and Romashov from the novel “The Duel”, which dies due to its passion. To experience happiness, inspired by strong emotions, is not given to everyone, but he who is in love, gifted from above, he is truly lucky.
Thus, both Kuprin and Bunin agree that love is a bright, bold, strong feeling that is not so easy to control. Weak people do not cope with it, they are not given to know it. But Ivan Alekseevich emphasizes that passion is the moment, and Alexander Ivanovich describes love that lasts for years, but does not lose its power over the hero.
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