Bunin and Nabokov. The story of rivalry

The names of the geniuses of the Russian literature Ivan Bunin and Vladimir Nabokov are connected to us by the language and an era, a scale of dating, life and creativity in emigration. But there is between these writers and the other, personal connection. In the new book of the Russian-American writer Maxim D. Shrar, an exciting plot of perennial and complex relationships between Bunin and Nabokov, while the history of Russian emigration from the 1920s before the 1970s. How are literary legends form? What stood behind the rivalry of two geniuses, and how was this rivalry affected modern Russian culture? This bright, uniquely unique book reveals entire layers of unknown archival materials, including the correspondence of the riot and nabokov.
A thorough analysis of painstakingly selected letters and diary records, argued, but unobtrusive conclusions, internal material dramaturgy and master ownership of them - all this gives a book with the qualities of good literature, exciting for any reader