Only true connoisseurs of the human soul can create short love stories. In a work of little prose, it is not so easy to reflect deep feelings. The Russian classic Ivan Bunin did a great job of this. Interesting short love stories were also created by Ivan Turgenev, Alexander Kuprin, Leonid Andreev and other writers. In this article we will consider authors of foreign and domestic literature, in whose work there are small lyrical works.
Ivan Bunin
Short love stories ... What should they be? In order to understand this, it is necessary to read the works of Bunin. This writer is an unsurpassed master of sentimental prose. His works are an example of this genre. The famous collection "Dark Alleys" includes thirty-eight romantic stories. In each of them, the author not only revealed the deep feelings of his heroes, but was also able to convey how powerful love is. After all, this feeling can change the fate of a person.
Such short love stories as “Caucasus”, “Dark Alleys”, “Late Hour”, can tell more about a great feeling than hundreds of sentimental novels.
Leonid Andreev
Love for all ages. Not only the talented writers devoted short stories about love to the pure feelings of young people. For an essay on this subject, which is sometimes asked at school, the material can be the work of Leonid Andreev, “Herman and Martha,” whose main characters are extremely far from the age of Romeo and Juliet. The action of this story takes place in one of the cities of the Leningrad region at the beginning of the century. Then the place in which the tragic event described by the Russian writer happened belonged to Finland. According to the laws of this country, people who have reached the age of fifty can get married only with the permission of the children.
The love story of Herman and Martha was sad. The closest people in their life did not want to understand the feelings of two elderly people. The heroes of Andreev’s story could not be together, but because this romantic story ended tragically.
Vasily Shukshin
Short stories about maternal love, if created by a true artist, are especially soulful. After all, there is nothing stronger in the world than the feelings a woman experiences for her child. This was written with sad irony by the Soviet writer, screenwriter and director Vasily Shukshin in the story “Maternal Heart”.
The protagonist of this work was in trouble through his own fault. But the mother's heart, although wise, does not recognize any logic. A woman overcomes unthinkable barriers in order to rescue her son from prison. “Maternal Heart” is one of the most soulful works of Russian prose devoted to love.
Lyudmila Kulikova
Another piece about the most powerful feeling is the story “See you”. Lyudmila Kulikova dedicated his love to her mother, whose life ends after the betrayal of her only beloved son. This woman is breathing, talking, smiling. But she no longer lives. After all, the son who was the meaning of her life did not make itself felt for more than twenty years. Kulikova’s story is soulful, sad and very instructive. Maternal love is the brightest that a person can have. To betray her is to commit the greatest sin.
Anatoly Aleksin
A short story called “Home Composition” is dedicated to both motherly and youthful love. Once the hero of Aleksin - the boy Dima - discovers a letter in the old thick encyclopedia. The message was written many years ago, and its author is no longer alive. He was a tenth grade student, and the addressee was a classmate with whom he was in love. But the letter remained unanswered, because the war had come. The author of the letter died without sending it. The girl, who was intended for romantic lines, graduated from high school, college, got married. Her life went on. The mother of the author of this letter forever stopped smiling. After all, it is impossible to survive your child.
Stefan Zweig
The long and short love stories were also created by the famous Austrian prose writer. One of these works is called "Letter to a Stranger." When you read the recognition of the heroine of this short story, who has loved a person all his life, who did not remember a person, not her name, it becomes very sad. But at the same time, there is a hope that a real sublime and selfless feeling still exists, and is not just an artistic invention of a talented writer.