Грамматика любви

Rasskazy, voshedshie v etot sbornik, obedineny "glavnymi temami" buninskoy prozy temami, k kotorym velikiy pisatel vozvrashchalsya na protyazhenii vsey svoey zhizni.Russkaya derevnya nachala KHKH veka, s ee nishchetoy i beznadezhnostyu, i dalekie, ekzoticheskie strany, sozhzhennye yuzhnym solntsem. Krasota i poetichnost prirody i taynye, temnye glubiny chelovecheskogo razuma i serdtsa. Nu i, konechno zhe, tema, v kotoroy Buninu ne bylo ravnykh v otechestvennoy literature i s kotoroy assotsiiruetsya ego imya u mnogikh pokoleniy chitateley: lyubov. Lyubov dramatichnaya, tragichnaya, kotoraya dlya geroev i geroin Bunina, voistinu, "krepka kak smert"