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Ivan Bunin: From the Other Shore, 1920-1933: A Protrait from Letters, Diaries, and Fiction

Ivan Bunin: From the Other Shore, 1920-1933: A Protrait from Letters, Diaries, and Fiction

Marullo, Thomas Gaiton

Hardcover

Series: Bunin

Historical FiguresLiterary FiguresPolitical Biographies

ISBN10: 1566630835
ISBN13: 9781566630832
Publisher: Ivan R. Dee Publisher
Published: Apr 1 1995
Pages: 347
Weight: 1.32
Height: 1.14 Width: 6.34 Depth: 9.33
Language: English
In this second volume of his major work on Bunin, the neglected master of Russian letters, Thomas Marullo recreates his life in exile, chiefly in Paris, after escaping from his newly bolshevized country in 1920. Drawing from Bunin's correspondence, his diaries, and his stories, and translating most of these materials into English for the first time, Mr. Marullo gives us a vivid picture of a man suddenly and agonizingly without a country. Bunin's life and art, which depended so heavily on traditional Russian values, seemed to be overthrown in a moment, and the writer found himself marooned amidst Western culture, clinging to his old ideals. Through his writings we are also provided a window on the lively but despairing and often fractious community of Russian emigrés in Paris in the twenties, which included Stravinsky, Rachmaninoff Chafiapin, Prokofiev, Chagall, Kandinsky, Pavlova, Diaghilev, and Zamyatin. The volume ends in 1933, when Bunin became the first Russian to receive the Nobel Prize in literature. Mr. Marullo's first volume, Ivan Bunin: Russian Requiem, was widely acclaimed. Gary Saul Morson of Northwestern wrote: It engages the reader from the first page ...Marullo has an eye for the perfect quotation. Ruth Rischin, in the Russian Review, described the book as elegantly crafted... a serious achievement.

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