Plantago major
Ivan Bunin, the first Russian author to win the Nobel prize in literature, was prone to grumbling about fellow writers’ and poets’ follies. His bitter shots hit the mark most of the time, but occasionally he missed and got hit…
Winterings in Trans-Scythia
Fragments of a blog
Winterings in Trans-Scythia
Fragments of a blog
Tag Ivan Bunin
That bitter abyss
About a month ago I noticed that the opening two lines of T. S. Eliot’s Grishkin poem from Whispers of Immortality (1920) mimic the respective lines of Théophile Gautier’s Carmen (1852). Compare Eliot’s half-stanza Grishkin is nice: her Russian eyeIs…
Adequately explained by you-know-what
Ivan Bunin (1870-1953), the fine story writer and poet who was also the first Russian author to win the Nobel prize, wrote in his diary known as The Accursed Days, referring to the folly of the Bolsheviks and their followers: Besides, much is…