Exile. Literary memories. Bunin I.A.

Ivan Alekseevich Bunin - poet and prose writers, the first of the Russian writers, awarded the Nobel Prize (1933). His works are transferred to many languages ​​of the world and are forever inscribed in the Golden Fund of World Literature. The 1917 revolution forced Bunin to leave his homeland, but the memory of the irrevocably lost Russia, about the people with whom fate was reduced, became a support for all his further work. The book "Memories" was released in 1950 in Paris, but the first chapters were written much earlier. Repin, Rachmaninov, Chekhov, Kuprin, Chaliapin - portraits of those with whom Bunin was well acquainted are recreated here.

In Soviet Russia, it was impossible to read the book entirely up to perestroika, even in the collections of the writer's works, fragments and chapters were removed from it, where Bunin spoke sharply, sarcastically about the colleagues on the workshop on the side of the Bolsheviks: about Gorky: about Gorky , Mayakovsky, Blok, Yesenin, "Tolstoy Third."

In this publication, these gaps are restored according to the lifetime publication. The memories of L. N. Tolstoy, before which Bunin had a good life all his life, outgrown in the essay “The Liberation of Tolstoy.”