Cursed Days: Diary of a Revolution

Cursed Days: Diary of a Revolution
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Here is Ivan Buninâ€™s great anti-Bolshevik diary of the Russian Revolution, translated into English for the first time. Set against the backdrop of Moscow and Odessa in 1918 and 1919, Cursed Days is a chilling account of the last days of the Russian master in his homelandâ€”a work banned during the years of Soviet power. Bunin recreates the time of revolution and civil war with graphic and gripping immediacy. Unlike the works of early Soviets and emigrÃ©s, with their self-censoring backdrop of memory, myth, and political expediency, Buninâ€™s uncompromising truths are jolting. His pain and suffering in witnessing the takeover of his country by â€œthugsâ€ and the chaos of civil war, and his fears for the devastation of â€œpatriarchalâ€ Russian culture, were with him daily and received vivid expression in his diary. Cursed Days foreshadows the later anti-Soviet memoirs of Nadezhda Mandelstam, Evgenia Ginsberg, and others, and the rebellions of Bulgakov and Paternak. Thomas Marulloâ€™s superb translation and annotations reveal Bunin not only as a master of prose (he was the first Russian to be awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature) but as a perceptive social critic engaged in a wrenching struggle to make sense of his shattered world.
Country USA
Brand Brand: Ivan R. Dee
Manufacturer Ivan R. Dee
Binding Hardcover
EANs 9781566631860
ReleaseDate 0000-00-00

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