The sun is dead

Ivan Shmelev wrote in France in 1922, in the first months of emigration in France. The book was reflected in recent events whose witness was a writer in the Crimea: a civil war, a “red” terror, hunger ... The epic brought European fame to the author, was recognized as one of the peaks of his work and was translated into several languages, Shmelev was twice nominated to the Nobel Prize of the Personal Award literature. “Read this if you have the courage,” Thomas Mann spoke about the book. Is there a worse book in Russian literature? - after several decades, Alexander Solzhenitsyn wrote. “I read the sun of the dead-for a long time, stretched out-put it off, was not afraid that he would end, was not afraid to read further, or I was afraid that I would miss something past my spiritual,” recalled the philosopher Ivan Ilyin. - This is one of the worst documents of human. It seemed to me that it was impossible to live in the world more from shame, it seemed that God was horrified that he created man. ”