I feel very shaky...

"I feel very shaky..." — words from Ivan Bunin's memoirs about the day in 1933 when he was awarded the Nobel Prize. Bunin speaks of the instability of both literary fame and life in a foreign country, and of human... life in general. The foundation of this book consists of Bunin's journalism and memoirs written after his emigration from Russia in 1920. "In the 1920s, Bunin became one of the most prominent publicists of the Russian diaspora. His journalistic work remained in his writing later on, because he mainly recalled Russia — and he could and did not want to write dispassionately about what happened to his motherland." Dmitry Nikolaev, Elena Trubilova