| In the late 1800s and early 1900s, the famous Russian writer, Ivan Alekseevitch Bunin has always been a controversial artist in the history of Russian literature. Due to his complex world outlook and his experience of living abroad, Bunin was treated coldly in his motherland for dozens of years. He didn't get "revaluation" until he passed away. As to this extremely complicated writer, the critics give different comments on him: some scholars regard his creation as another peak of Russian critical realism following Tolstoy and Tchechov ;other scholars decode his art from a perspective of modernistic creation and give high evaluation.The thesis focuses on the discussion that the critics always fail to give objective evaluations in spite of their attempts, owing to the limitation of the time and environment they are in and themselves. Thus, it is no wonder that different conclusions are drawn in terms of one writer. This decoding based on cognition is in fact regarding literature creation as the supply of certain cognition, certain cognition towards social life to readers. It seems that we cannot limit Bunin in a certain field, when we study him, a writer with contradicting and complex creative idea and world outlook.The thesis focuses on Bunin's work Countryside proposed by critics , which is shown not only in respect of the novel topic, but also in respectof the understanding of the writer's creative style and method. Objectively, the controvert of critics towards Bunin's works both illustrates the difference of critics' visual angle and position, and refracts the contradiction and complexity of Bunin's own creative idea and world outlook.The thesis proposes a kind of vague realism in the process of writer's creation, owing to the specificity of the time, which he was in, as well as affirming his realistic creative method. That is to say, the writing methods he adapted have shown some hints of realism.The thesis also explains the influence of the Russian national features towards the writer's own creative style. The special contradiction of Russian national feature has greatly verified on Bunin.Lastly, the thesis expounds the forming reasons of Bunin's art style in terms of Bunin's life, experience and thinking origin.Today, several centuries later, standing on the perspective of modern people, we try to decode Bunin, in order to approach this master, and step into his mind and emphasize his position in the history of Russian literature. Thus we can better comprehend Russian literature. |