Ontological Perception of Reality in Prose at the Turn of the 19th–20th Centuries (A.P. Chekhov, I.A. Bunin)

Abstract

This article is devoted to the study of Chekhov’s and Bunin’s prose at the turn of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, the works in which Russian life is shown through the prism of Orthodox spirituality. It is revealed that the most remarkable feature of the artistic consciousness of these authors is the perception of being in the indivisible integrity of the national religious mentality, defined by the “living life” of the centuries-old spiritual tradition.