Besmirching "Bezhin Meadow": Ivan Bunin's "Night Conversation."
Bunin's "Night Conversation" (1912) counters two conceptions of Russian cultural life that he considered erroneous: the intelligentsia's idealization of the narod or "folk" and their reputed adherence to the realist tradition of Russian literature. Bunin does this by...
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Language: | English |
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New Prairie Press
1985-01-01
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Series: | Studies in 20th & 21st Century Literature |
Online Access: | http://newprairiepress.org/sttcl/vol9/iss2/9 |