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- УДК / UDK: 821.161.1
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- Abstract:
The article reveals the reasons for Ivan Nazhivin’s hatred of Ivan Bunin, which became evident in the mid 1930s. The anti-Bunin campaign launched by Nazhivin is presented as a multi-pass combination. Nazhivin discredited the luminary of émigré literature in personal correspondence with Maxim Gorky, Mark Aldanov, Mikhail Osorgin, Sergei Svatikov, in critical-journalistic works which were intended for print, but remained unpublished, as well as in the novel “The Non-Highly-Regarded” (Tianjin, 1935). The article is based on little-known materials from RGALI, GARF, RAL and the Library of International Modern Documentation (La bibliothèque de documentation internationale contemporaine, Paris — Nanterre).
- Keywords: Ivan Nazhivin, Ivan Bunin, émigrés, harassment, correspondence, “The District Moncher”, “The Non-Highly-Regarded”.
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Bakuntsev Anton. “The most bitter black-hundredist and bullhead, he’s putrefied completely…”: Ivan Nazhivin on Ivan Bunin (1930s). Literary fact, 2019, no. 1(11), pp. 254–275. (In Russ.)
DOI 10.22455/2541-8297-2019-11-254-275
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