Zinaida Gippius o Iwanie Buninie w prywatnej korespondencji z lat 1926–1932
Zinaida Gippius about Ivan Bunin in the Private Correspondence of 1926–1932

Summary/Abstract: The article studies the contents of fi ve letters written by Zinaida Gippius in 1926–1932 to threepersons: Nina Berberova, Vladislav Khodasevich and Alexandr Amfi teatrov. All the interlocutors,including Ivan Bunin, represent the fi rst wave of the Russian emigration. In her letters to theacquaintances Gippius shares remarks about Bunin as a man and an artist. With typical for herirony and arrogance, she refers to the works of her competitor revealing negative features of hercharacter. Gippius letters also portray mechanisms of the social and cultural life of Russian emigrantsoriginating from the older generation of writers.

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