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Artful Autobiography
Doren, Mark Van | February 14, 1934 issue

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The article focuses on the book "The Well of Days," by Ivan Bunin. This is the first book by Bunin to be published in America since the award to him of the Nobel prize for literature. It appears also to be the opening volume in a series which under the guise of another name, Alexey Alexandrovich Arseniev, will be Bunin's autobiography. Bunin has been too conscious of the autobiography as a literary form. His mind, running in fact wholly to form, has invented all sorts of irrelevant and intrusive "beauties" which get in the way of believing that this is the story of a specific Russian boy who grew up on a specific estate.

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WELL of Days, The (Book); AUTOBIOGRAPHY; BUNIN, Ivan; LITERARY form; NOBEL Prizes; LITERATURE
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