Published : 2023-09-26

World War II in Diaries by Ivan Bunin

Abstract

Ivan Bunin kept diaries almost all his life. They performed various functions and often were fragmentary or discontinuous. In his diaries the writer recorded, among others, events important to him and emotions accompanying the very events. Hence, they also included his thoughts on the Second World War, which the writer spent mainly in the south of France. Bunin closely followed and commented on the course of warfare and the fate of countries involved in it. The conflict on the territory of the former homeland led the diarist, inter alia, to soften statements about the USSR and recollections about his mother country. In turn, the description of the French war abounds in detailed comments on Bunin’s living and health conditions and his relatives, and it also presents the complicated and uncertain situation of Russian emigrants. All the memoirs are marked with reflections on transience, time, death and memory.

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Ivan Bunin, World War II, diaries, memory, first wave of Russian emigration, France



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Roczniki Humanistyczne · ISSN 0035-7707 | eISSN 2544-5200 | DOI: 10.18290/rh
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