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Autographs Don't Burn: Letters to the Bunins, Part 1

Autographs Don't Burn: Letters to the Bunins, Part 1

Tsareva-Brauner, Vera

Hardcover

Letters & EssaysLiterary CriticismGeneral World History

ISBN10: 1644694328
ISBN13: 9781644694329
Publisher: Academic Studies Pr
Published: Nov 3 2020
Pages: 208
Weight: 1.03
Height: 0.50 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English

This book sprang from three handwritten lines by Ivan Bunin, Russia's first winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature. Found inside a first edition of Mitya's Love, they led to the discovery of one of the largest corpora of letters written to Ivan and Vera Bunin by two people whose lives and legacy had been, until now, forgotten. These letters are now in the Russian Archive in Leeds (RAL), and are published here for the first time. The book also focuses on memory and history in its purest form, as narrated by witnesses who lived through the most tragic century in Russian history. Their stories involve Grand Dukes, Russian literary and political giants, as well as one of the architects of the Gulag, and show how these lives intertwined. It also sheds new light on the life and works of Chekhov, Gorky, A. Tolstoy, and Bunin.

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