On both sides of the iron curtain: Ivan Bunin and Antonin Ladinsky

Abstract

In the article, the history of relations between Ivan Bunin and Antonin Ladinsky in the interwar Paris of the 1920–1930s is recreated on the material of diary entries, memoirs and letters. While Bunin was a recognized master of Russian literature and a representative of the “older” generation in the literary hierarchy of Russian émigrés, Ladinsky only carried out his first literary publications in the mid-1920s. Previously unpublished materials: letters, diaries, manuscripts of the memoirs “Encounters with Bunin” and “Paris Memories” by Antonin Ladinsky testify on how the relations between writers and representatives of different literary generations developed and how Bunin influenced on Ladinsky.

Keywords

• i.a. bunin
• a.p. ladinsky
• archival materials
• émigrés
• literary generations
• relations between “older” and “younger”
• ego-documents
• diaries
• memoirs
• letters
• interwar paris