Cursed Days

4 hrs. 38 min.

Classics

Language Russian

Author Ivan Bunin

Narrator Vladimir Yeryomin

Description

“Cursed Days” are Bunin’s reflections on Russia and the Russian people, recorded in the form of a diary. In the book, the “cursed” days are the days of the Civil War and the Revolution. He describes everything happening around him in the first days of 1918 and up to June 1919. Bunin ponders the essence of the revolution, the great collapse of Russia, and people. He notices that with the arrival of Soviet power, what had been built for centuries is falling apart. The national catastrophe is rendered very vividly. Any revolutionary looks like a bandit. His hatred for the “Reds” is boundless. This is an audiobook of revenge and retribution, of longing for beauty—the kind of beauty that remained from his past life. Bunin filled the book with his pain, the torment of the coming exile, the pitch of hatred in which Russia burned during the days of the revolution, and all his love for that Russia that forever disappeared before his eyes in those terrible 1918–1919 days.