Rupkatha Journal on Interdisciplinary Studies in Humanities (ISSN 0975-2935), Vol. IX, No. 4, 2017 [Indexed by Scopus & approved by UGC] DOI: https://dx.doi.org/10.21659/rupkatha.v9n4.10 Full Text: http://rupkatha.com/V9/n4/v9n410.pdf Ivan Bunin and Guy de Maupassant: Ties Across Creative Writing Vladimir Meskin & Karina Galay Peoples Friendship University of Russia (RUDN University), Miklukho-Maklaya str., 10/2, 117198 Moscow, Russia. Corresponding author:
[email protected] Received September 20, 2017; Revised November 21, 2017; Accepted November 30, 2017; Published December 09, 2017. Abstract If one compares the works of Guy de Maupassant and Bunin I.A., he or she will find that these two writers are related by a subject matter. In particular, attention is drawn to the description of relationship between men and women. It is essential that Russian writer’s attitude toward the works of his French colleague- predecessor – a bright representative of European realism of the XIX century – changes as he develops in creativity. Textual analysis of similar (by plot) works of Maupassant and Bunin was carried out on the back of the experience of many writers, who have studied the legacy of both classics. Bunin is proved to be modernizing the realistic poetics and going a way of neo-realism – realism, enriched by the influence of modernism. Keywords: Guy de Maupassant; Bunin I.A; realism; modernism; neo-realism; poetics; context; evolvement. Introduction In modern scientific journalism, there is a considerable amount of works describing research results on I.A. Bunin’s creative writing – one of the last classics of Russian literature.