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Double theme in Bunin's depictions of the women his young heroes love, and that doubling began with Pashchenko. There was the flesh-and-blood Varvara Pashchenko and then there was the idealized P a s h c h e n k o , whom the young creative artist Bunin invented and fell in love with. Even as a young man Bunin was aware that he was falling in love, largely, with a figment oj his own imagi- i- nation, as do the young heroes he later invented. This brings us back to t h e issue we began with, the Nabokovian theme of "reali-ty." To what extent is even our present life a concatenation of imagined circumstances, rather than a "real" life? "The re-experience of the past is more real for the adult Arsen'ev than t h e original e x p e r i e n c e s . . . " (p. 58). There is the key. For Bunin imaginative life is equally (or more) "real" than "real life" (whatever that is). For the creative artist t h e Pygmalion myth is paramount. In her memoir, Grasskii dnevnik, Galina Kuznetsova relates an account of a dream Bunin
Canadian-American Slavic Studies – Brill
Published: Jan 1, 1999
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