Opportunity Of The Ancient Greek Myth. "dark Avenue

The anthology "the gloomy avenue" which was written by Bunin during theWorld War II is honored as "the encyclopedia of love". From this book we can learnthe opinion of Bunin about love, life and death. The anthology contains 40 shortstories which use "love" as its main clue and illustrates the latent relationship betweenlove and death. The theme—love and death of "the gloomy avenue" is quite similarwith that of the ancient Greek mythology and many stories of "the gloomy avenue"are borrowed and adapted from the love legends of the ancient Greek mythology. This thesis presents a comprehensive analysis of the relationship between "thegloomy avenue" and the ancient Greek mythology. The full text is composed of thepreface, the main body and the ending. The main body analyses "the gloomy avenue"from three aspects: love, death and religion. The love expressed in "the gloomyavenue" is earthborn love, and it is quite similar with that of the ancient Greekmythology. Bunin considered that love contained two aspects: sexual desire and soullove, and any one of these two aspects can not make up of all meanings of ideal love.Only when soul love and sexual desire achieve harmonious unification, we can say itis the perfect ideal love. Bunin desired the ideal love, but he pessimistically thoughtthat earthborn love can not be perpetually happy and death always hided behind loveand the happiness. In the ancient Greek mythology death becomes the destination oflove and in "the gloomy avenue" death becomes the inevitable choice out of thevulgarness. However, as an eastern, Bunin tried to walk out of the destiny of "loveand death" and wanted to find a perpetually happy and peaceful road –be converted toGod. This is the Bunin's answer to the thinking about love, life and death.