“The Cursed Days”: Specificity of I.A. Bunin’s Work with Facts

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Anton V. Bakuntsev

PhD in Philology, Associate Professor at the Chair of Editing, Publishing and Informatics, Faculty of Journalism, Lomonosov Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia

e-mail: auctor@list.ru

Section: History of Journalism

The article is based on the report which the author read in the 4th International scientific conference “Synthesis of non-fiction and fiction in literature and art” in Kazan in May, 2012. We use “The Cursed Days” as an example to examine the main principles and methods of Bunin's work with actual material. The writer used different texts of newspaper publications as actual material and also his own diary notes of 1915—1922 and publicistic works written during the Civil war and the beginning of emigration. The author of the article compares the original works with their “equivalents” in “The Cursed Days” and shows how Bunin made literary transformations of the initial actual material.

Keywords: I.A. Bunin, “The Cursed Days”, actual material, literary transformation