Ivan Bunin’s Early Prose: Source Studies, Textology, Attribution, Dating

Occupation: Senior Researcher
Affiliation: A. M. Gorky Institute of World Literature, Russian Academy of Sciences
Address: 25a Povarskaya Str., Moscow, 191069, Russia

Journal name

Izvestiia Rossiiskoi akademii nauk. Seriia literatury i iazyka

Edition

Volume 81 Issue 4

Pages

43-51

Abstract

The present paper represents a first attempt at the general idea of textology of Ivan Bunin’s early prose. The problematic issues of source studies, textual studies, dating, and attribution are considered. Also, the paper aims at giving a brief overview of the archive collections of Ivan Bunin’s materials as well as studying the problems of the choice of the main text of early prose works, and revealing the main difficulties in dating the writer’s early prose. The author presents a newly developed general methodology for attribution of anonymous or pseudonymously signed publications of conditionally non-fictional prose by Ivan Bunin (articles, correspondence) in the provincial newspapers of Orel, Kiev and Odessa. The main issues of source studies, textual studies, attribution and dating of the writer’s early prose studied in the paper are to reveal more specific problems and issues that will be solved during the preparation of the first academic Complete works and letters of Ivan Bunin.

Keywords

Ivan Bunin, early prose, source studies, textual criticism, attribution, dating

Acknowledgment

The research was carried out at the expense of the grant of the Russian Scientific Foundation No. 22-18-00347 “Ivan Bunin’s early work: poetry, prose, criticism, journalism, translations (1883–1902)ˮ

Received

28.09.2022

Publication date

28.09.2022

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25589

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GOST	Morozov S. Ivan Bunin’s Early Prose: Source Studies, Textology, Attribution, Dating // Izvestiia Rossiiskoi akademii nauk. Seriia literatury i iazyka – 2022. – V. 81. – Issue 4 C. 43-51 [Electronic resource]. URL: https://izv-oifn.ru/S160578800021455-6-1 (circulation date: 03.05.2024). DOI: 10.31857/S160578800021455-6
MLA	Morozov, Sergey "Ivan Bunin’s Early Prose: Source Studies, Textology, Attribution, Dating." Izvestiia Rossiiskoi akademii nauk. Seriia literatury i iazyka 81.4 (2022):43-51. DOI: 10.31857/S160578800021455-6
APA	Morozov S. (2022). Ivan Bunin’s Early Prose: Source Studies, Textology, Attribution, Dating. Izvestiia Rossiiskoi akademii nauk. Seriia literatury i iazyka 81(4), pp.43-51 DOI: 10.31857/S160578800021455-6

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