Rácz Ildikó Mária - A lét and a szerelem szentsége

If one reads Bunyin, one is struck by how little of what literature has said so far about love. Women could erect a monument to the writer, who in his works turned ordinary peasant women, high school girls, and rural clerks into creatures. In the metaphysics of love, Bunyin penetrates deeper than his predecessors, the partial figures of Eternal Femininity depicted in the female narratives. In his writings, the secret of love is intertwined with the secret of death, the essential element of love being the desire for immortality. Bunyin not only delights the reader with aesthetic pleasure, but also addresses her with her answers to questions about the meaning of existence and encourages her to think further about the problems. Memory is central to his philosophy of art, because it is true that everything passes, but paradoxically everything remains. Ildikó Mária Rácz erects a worthy, verbal monument to the Russian writer with her book. He points out convincingly that a significant feature of Bunyin’s poetics is the primordial search for the ultimate One, under the auspices of Eros and Thanatos. The integration of Orientalist and Western philosophies in the monograph brings the reader closer to explaining the ultimate questions of existence. Through a multidisciplinary methodological approach combining the individual chapters, the author attempts to include in the analyzes, in addition to the methods of literature and religion, scientific and psychiatric research (Maslow's pyramid theory, Einsteinian space-time, Jungian archetypes, b development theory, the holographic universe model). The reader, however, does not rotate a theoretical work in his hand, but something much more exciting to read because of the vivid observations in them. When writing the monograph, the author thought of both the lay reader and the Russian specialists. The book is recommended for all adult readers who are interested in the art philosophical and ontological issues of love, existence, and death.