I feel very unsteady...

«I feel very unsteady…» — words from Ivan Bunin's memoirs about the day in 1933 when he was awarded the Nobel Prize. Bunin speaks of the unsteadiness of both literary fame and life in a foreign country, and human life in general. The foundation of this book consists of Bunin's journalism and memoirs written after his departure from Russia in 1920. "In the 1920s, Bunin became one of the brightest publicists of the Russian diaspora. His publicistic style persisted in his work later on, because he mainly recalled Russia — and he could not and did not want to write dispassionately about what had happened to his homeland." Dmitry Nikolaev, Elena Trubilova