Dark alleys. Cursed days. Bunin I.A.

Ivan Alekseevich Bunin - poet and prose writer, the first of the Russian writers, awarded the Nobel Prize. “The fact that I became a writer turned out somehow by itself was determined as early and imperceptibly as it happens only for those who are“ written on the clan, ”he wrote about himself once. I. S. Shmelev said that Russia itself was revealed through the prose of Bunin. The revolution forced Bunin to leave his homeland, but the memory of it became the support of all his further creativity: he began to recreate forever lost Russia, its disappeared beauty in his works.

Essentially and the cycle of stories “Dark Alleys” - the main book of Bunin of the emigrant period is “Restoring the instant time of love in the eternal time of Russia, its nature, its frozen in its splendor of the past” (I. N. Sukhihi ). The real edition included the Dark Alleys cycle, diary notes of 1918–1919 “Cursed Days”, literary memories, the book “The Liberation of Tolstoy”, as well as poems of different years.