ILYIN IVAN (1883-1954) O t’me i prosvetlenii: Kniga khudozhestvennoi kritiki. Bunin – Remizov – Shmelev. [On Darkness and Enlightenment: A Book of Art Criticism.] Munich: [Printed by the Monastery of St. Job of Pochaev], 1959. First edition.

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– [8], 196 pp.: diagrams; 24.3 x 17.2 cm. In a printed publisher's cover. Good condition. Minor fading of the cover and creasing along the top edge. Ivan Alexandrovich Ilyin (1883-1954) was a Russian philosopher, writer, and publicist. A representative of the White movement and ideologist of the Russian All-Military Union (ROVS), he was a consistent critic of communist rule in Russia and a staunch adherent of the principle of irreconcilability in the fight against communism. The book grew out of a lecture course entitled 'New Russian Literature,' which Ilyin gave at the Russian Scientific Institute in Berlin in 1934. Eight lectures were devoted to the works of I.S. Shmelev, I.A. Bunin, D.S. Merezhkovsky, and A.M. Remizov.

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