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THE IMAGE OF COLOMBO IN THE PROSE WORKS OF I. A. BUNIN

ОБРАЗ КОЛОМБО В ПРОЗАИЧЕСКИХ ПРОИЗВЕДЕНИЯХ И. А. БУНИНА

THE IMAGE OF COLOMBO IN THE PROSE WORKS OF I. A. BUNIN

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Настоящая статья посвящена рассмотрению художественного образа города Коломбо (Республика Шри-Ланка) в прозаических произведениях русского писателя И. А. Бунина, посетившего остров Цейлон в марте 1911 года. Актуальность исследования и его научная новизна определяются интересом к малоизученному аспекту литературного наследия писателя – изображению им города Коломбо в рассказах 10–20-х годов XX столетия, а также в наброске <Туманная полоска земли…>, введенном в научное обращение в 2019 году. Литературный образ Коломбо у Бунина топографически достоверен, что подтверждается наличием названий городских улиц (Йорк-Стрит, Квинс-Стрит), парков (Парк Виктории), садов (Сад Гордона), районов (Форт, Сады Корицы, Невольничий Остров, Марадана) в художественной ткани рассказа «Братья». Неоднократно упоминаемый в тексте район Невольничьего острова реализует семантику невосполнимой утраты, губительного начала в жизни молодого рикши. «Огни города» как образная деталь создают параллелизм жизненных событий в биографиях сингалеза и англичанина, передавая авторскую мысль об исконном братстве всех людей. Контрастный облик Коломбо, объединяющего растительное изобилие райских садов, градостроительные достижения Голландии и Англии, «пароходы всех стран» и бесчеловечную жестокость колониализма, получивший черно-белую и золотую от вечернего солнца окраску, отражает свойственное автору представление о цейлонском мире в целом, о сложности, противоречивости и непостижимой загадочности бытия. This article is devoted to the consideration of the artistic image of the city of Colombo (Republic of Sri Lanka) in the prose works of the Russian writer I. A. Bunin, who visited the island of Ceylon in March 1911. The relevance of the research and its scientific novelty are determined by the interest in a little-studied aspect of the writer’s literary heritage – his depiction of the city of Colombo in the stories of the 10-20s of the 20thcentury, as well as in the sketch “The Foggy Strip of the Land…”, introduced into scientific circulation in 2019. Bunin’s literary image of Colombo is topographically correct, which is confirmed by the presence of names of city streets (York Street, Queens Street), parks (Victoria Park), gardens (Gordon Garden), districts (Colombo Fort, Cinnamon Gardens, Slave Island, Maradana) in the artistic fabric of the story “Brothers”. The Slave Island area, repeatedly mentioned in the text, implements the semantics of irreparable loss, a ruinous beginning in the life of a young rickshaw driver. “City Lights” as a figurative detail creates a parallelism of life events in the biographies of Sinhalese and the Englishman, conveying the author’s idea of the primordial brotherhood of all people. The contrasting appearance of Colombo, combining the vegetable abundance of paradise gardens, the urban development achievements of Holland and England, the “peoples of all countries” and the inhuman cruelty of colonialism, which received black-white and gold coloring from the evening sun, reflects the author’s own idea of the Ceylon world as a whole, about complexity, inconsistency and incomprehensible mystery being.

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