Abstract
The author expresses his heartfelt gratitude to the staff of the Russian State Archive of Literature and Art, as well as to S.N. Morozov (IWL RAS) and S.R. Fedyakin (Gorky Literary Institute) for their assistance in the preparation of the article. Abstract: The article uses the material of G.V. Adamovich’s publications in emigrant periodicals to address the problem of critical reception of I.A. Bunin’s novel “The Life of Arsenyev” in the late 1920s – early 1950s. Bunin in 1928–1939 published his novel in parts. At the same time, the appearance in the magazine “Sovremennye zapiski” (Paris) of each of the five books included in the novel and the release of individual book editions were preceded by the publication of fragments of “The Life of Arsenyev” in emigrant newspapers. This explains the relatively large 324 Литературный факт. 2021. № 3 (21) number of Adamovich’s responses to Bunin's novel. The critic did not let “The Life of Arsenyev” out of his field of view from the time of the publication of her third book in “Sovremennye zapiski” (1929) until the first complete edition of the novel was published in the New York Chekhov Publishing House (1952). The article traces how Adamovich’s attitude to Bunin’s work was adjusted over the years, and how, as a result, sophisticated pickiness was replaced by unconditional admiration. The empirical material is grouped taking into account the chronology of the publication of “The Life of Arsenyev”. The research methods used are the principle of historicism and comparative analysis.
Highlights
The appearance in the magazine “Sovremennye zapiski” (Paris) of each of the five books included in the novel and the release of individual book editions were preceded by the publication of fragments of “The Life of Arsenyev” in emigrant newspapers
Сазоновой[40], высказал наконец во всеуслышание, притом в весьма радикальной форме: «И вот Критик как бы подытоживал все, что он прежде писал о «Жизни Арсеньева» и при этом по-новому расставлял акценты — в соответствии с тем новым пониманием бунинского произведения, которое пришло к нему еще в конце 1930-х гг
Summary
Однако самому Адамовичу Бунин сделал соответствующий «выговор» значительно позже — уже после того, как критик выпустил одну из двух своих рецензий на No 40 «Современных записок», в котором была опубликована четвертая книга «Жизни Арсеньева». Адамович снова прибегал к метафоре, которая так рассердила Бунина: «“Жизнь Арсеньева” — это долгий, протяжный “плач о погибшей России”, великолепная “отходная” всему тому, что Бунин в России любил: укладу, строю, устоявшемуся спокойствию и картинному благолепию ее, — и что в прежнем облике никогда не удастся никакими силами воскресить: уж кто-кто может на этот счет обольщаться, только не Бунин»9.
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