Light Breathing
Titre original: Лёгкое дыхание
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- Époque
- The Silver Age
- Année
- 1916
- Chapitres
- 1
À propos de l'œuvre
The story opens in a cemetery, at a cross bearing the photograph of the schoolgirl Olya Meshcherskaya - beautiful, carefree and full of life. Bunin reconstructs her short story not in order but through separate episodes. A brief text about youth, beauty and what remains after a person is gone.
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Genèse de l'œuvre
Bunin wrote the story in 1916, and it was published the same year.
Contexte
The story is set in a provincial town in pre-revolutionary Russia. It is very short but dense: the order of the episodes and the recurring details matter.
Le saviez-vous ?
- The psychologist Lev Vygotsky analysed the story's composition in detail in his book The Psychology of Art.