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Description: “Cursed Days” are the author’s reflections on Russia and the Russian people, written in diary form. Bunin called the days of the revolution and civil war “damned” and described everything that happened around him in the first days of 1918 and until June 1919. He reflects on the essence of the revolution, about people, about the great fall of Russia. He notices how, with the advent of Soviet power, what has been created over the centuries is crumbling. Conveys a feeling of national catastrophe. For him, any revolutionary is a bandit. His hatred for the “Reds” is limitless. This is a book of curses, retribution and revenge, longing for the beauty left in a past life. Through “Cursed Days,” Bunin conveyed his pain, the torment of his impending exile, the intensity of hatred with which the country burned during the days of the revolution, and all his love for that Russia that disappeared forever in those terrible days of 1918-1919. before his eyes.
Year of manufacture: 2007
Author: Bunin Ivan
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Genre: Philosophical and journalistic work, diary
Publisher: IDDK
Audiobook type: audiobook
Audio codec: MP3
Audio bitrate: 128 kbps
Playing time: 05:54:13
The Romans put marks on the faces of their convicts: “Cave furem.” There is no need to put anything on these faces, and without any mark everything is visible.
A cross-section of the revolution in Russia through the eyes of a very smart, impressionable, caustic writer who was full of words throughout this era of change.
And it’s difficult for me to evaluate the book, because how can one evaluate an era? How to evaluate documentary notes stored under the mattress, and then under the floor, and then even in the walls? Bunin apparently wrote them hastily and secretly, almost with bread soaked in milk, as did that bald man from Ulyanovsk, whom he hated so much. In general, Bunin hated many people, a lot of all sorts of dirt would be spilled on fellow writers, especially Gorky and Mayakovsky, and this was such a big minus for me. Bunin did not keep his opinions to himself... although... these were his personal notes, he could write whatever he wanted. But all this characterizes him as a very bilious person. It's always difficult for people like that.Why a commissioner, why a tribunal, and not just a court? This is because only under the protection of such sacred revolutionary words can one safely walk knee-deep in blood, and, thanks to them, even the most reasonable and decent revolutionaries, who are indignant at the usual robbery, theft, murder, who understand perfectly well that they must knit, dragging to the police a tramp who grabbed a passerby by the throat in ordinary times, they choke with delight in front of this tramp if he does the same thing in a time called revolutionary.
In general, these records are permeated with bitterness and hatred. There was not a single happy page, only pain and bile. And fear. And it’s time for me, along with the author, to hate the new government. From Bunin’s perspective, this hatred is probably closer to me than in Bulgakov’s equally bitter satire. Bulgakov mocks a lot, but here there is no humor, but very biting. Indeed - damned days, hopeless, Bunin writes that he does not live, he just sits and waits, waits and sits, every day passes in bewilderment, why no one comes and returns the way it was. Whether Bunin is sitting in Moscow, or in Odessa, visiting guests, collecting rumors, and the rumors are becoming more and more grotesque, which at any other time would not even be believed, just spit, but now - I believe it, I really want to believe it, to the point of idiocy and absolute hopelessness. Everything is believed. And that the Germans will come and overthrow the Bolshevik government, and that the White Czechs will come too, and that that useless French destroyer on the horizon of the sea (this has already been written) will save Odessa - I also believe.
And all this is due to an unbearable thirst for it to be the way you unbearably want it. A person raves like a feverish person, and, listening to this nonsense, all day long you still greedily believe it and become infected by it. Otherwise, it seems, he would not have survived even a week.
But everyone knows how it all ended, and every year the notes are angrier and more desperate. Apart from enjoying nature, Bunin had no joys left (so it seems). But Bunin knows how to talk about nature in such a way that if he gave him a weather forecast, everyone would listen. And a lot, a lot of thinking about it and without it, such a terrible lytdybr, but I like this format (I also know from Montaigne). By the way, I didn’t know that the Bolsheviks moved the time forward by several hours (sic!) - in the old days it was still day, and now it’s already twelve o’clock. Why did our people move an hour forward, two hours back? That government did not waste time on trifles, it immediately moved it forward by 5 hours.
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About the book “Cursed Days” Ivan Bunin
“Cursed Days” is a diary book. Ivan Bunin wrote both a work of fiction and journalism that reflected events in the former Russian Empire in 1918-1920. He described his personal impressions of the events of the revolution and the civil war that followed, skillfully reflecting an era that became catastrophic. In addition, the book can be considered as a historical source, because the experiences, moods and ideological positions that reigned in Russia at that time are conveyed with incredible accuracy.
First of all, to understand “Cursed Days,” it is worth remembering what the Russian Empire was for Ivan Bunin. For the author, this concept was associated with the subjective perception of home, where there is a family nest, parents, a warm and fragrant world of relatives, childhood friends, favorite books, memorable places, and schoolmates. However, in 1917, the patriarchal world of Ivan Bunin collapsed. In its place came the harsh and perverted reality of the revolution, then the civil war. He could not and did not know how to adapt, so what was happening around him was depicted as a real Boschian nightmare. This is how the events of those years in Moscow and Odessa are described.
The book is filled with bitterness and disappointment about what happened in his home country. The hero of the story is in constant fear for his life: on the family estate he risks being burned alive by a crowd of maddened peasants, in Moscow he risks being killed by a stray bullet. He wakes up and falls asleep to the sound of cannonade and does not know when this nightmare will end. What is happening is so disgusting to the narrator that he is ready to accept the German army as deliverance, which could reach Moscow and free it from the revolutionaries.
Ivan Bunin painstakingly records snatches of conversations, rumors, speculation, pictures of events and other details, trying to record at least on paper the world he is familiar with, or rather, what is left of it. This is the tragedy of “Cursed Days”: the tragedy of the entire people is documented here through the prism of the perception of one person who contemplates this tragedy with horror and powerlessness.
The novel fully demonstrates the writer’s anger at what is happening and the fear of living in a country to which he is accustomed and which he loves. This will be followed by emigration, the Nobel Prize and a new war, but these will be different memories of another period in the life of the last intellectual of Russia.
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Quotes from the book “Cursed Days” by Ivan Bunin
The Romans stamped the faces of their convicts: “Cave furem.” There is no need to put anything on these faces, and everything is visible without any branding.
What an old Russian disease this is, this languor, this boredom, this spoiledness - the eternal hope that some frog will come with a magic ring and do everything for you: you just have to go out onto the porch and throw the ring from hand to hand!
They say that the sailors sent to us from St. Petersburg were completely mad from drunkenness, from cocaine, from self-will. Drunk, they break into prisoners in the emergency room without orders from their superiors and kill anyone. Recently they rushed to kill a woman and a child. She prayed to be spared for the sake of the child, but the sailors shouted: “Don’t worry, we’ll give him a butter too!” - and they shot him too. For fun, they drive the prisoners out into the yard and force them to run while they shoot, deliberately making mistakes.
Tolstoy said that nine-tenths of bad human actions are explained solely by stupidity.
“I didn’t do anything, because I always wanted to do more than usual.”
The trouble is that my imagination is a little more vivid than others...
Crowds of outcasts, the scum of society, flocked to devastate their own home under the banners of different tribal leaders, impostors, false kings, atamans of degenerates, criminals, ambitious people...” This is from Solovyov, about the Time of Troubles.
Terrible morning! I went to Shpitalnikov (Talnikov, critic), he was wearing two pants, two shirts, and said that the “day of peaceful uprising” had already begun, the robbery was already underway; afraid that they will take away the second pair of pants.
Our children and grandchildren will not be able to even imagine the Russia in which we once (that is, yesterday) lived, which we did not appreciate, did not understand - all this power, complexity, wealth, happiness...
Yulia from “Power of the People” was given “the most accurate information”: St. Petersburg was declared a free city; Lunacharsky is appointed mayor. (City Governor Lunacharsky!) Then: tomorrow Moscow banks are handed over to the Germans; The German offensive continues... In general, the devil will break his leg!
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