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

by Thomas Gaiton Marullo
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

by Thomas Gaiton Marullo

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Overview

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."

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781566630832
Publisher: Dee, Ivan R. Publisher
Publication date: 04/01/1995
Series: Bunin
Pages: 347
Product dimensions: 6.42(w) x 9.18(h) x 1.17(d)

About the Author

Thomas G. Marullo is professor of Russian literature at the University of Notre Dame, author of If You See Buddha, and editor of Ivan Bunin: The Twilight of Emigré Russia, Ivan Bunin: Russian Requiem, and Bunin’s diary Cursed Days. He lives in South Bend, Indiana.

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Marc Raeff

…scintillating…insightful mosaic panorama...Marullo recreates the total atmosphere of Bunin’s …life [and]…émigré milieu in which he lived.
— distinguished Russian historian and professor emeritus, Columbia University.

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