Editing Ivan Bunin (section)

===Death===
On 2 May 1953, Bunin left in his diary a note that proved to be his last one. "Still, this is so dumbfoundingly extraordinary. In a very short while there will be no more of me&nbsp;– and of all the things worldly, of all the affairs and destinies, from then on I will be unaware! And what I'm left to do here is dumbly try to consciously impose upon myself fear and amazement," he wrote.

Ivan Alekseyevich Bunin died in a Paris attic flat in the early hours of 8 November 1953. Heart failure, [[cardiac asthma]] and pulmonary [[Sclerosis (medicine)|sclerosis]] were cited as the causes of death.<ref name="vinokur">{{cite web| url = http://www.vestnik.com/issues/2003/1112/win/vinokur.htm| title = Один из тех, которым нет покоя| publisher = www.vestnik.com| access-date = 1 January 2011| archive-date = 26 September 2011| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20110926213547/http://www.vestnik.com/issues/2003/1112/win/vinokur.htm| url-status = dead}}</ref> A lavish burial service took place at the Russian Church on [[:fr:Rue Daru|Rue Daru]]. All the major newspapers, both Russian and French, published large obituaries. For quite a while the coffin was held in a [[Burial vault (enclosure)|vault]]. On 30 January 1954, Bunin was buried in the [[Sainte-Geneviève-des-Bois Russian Cemetery]].<ref name="bio_7" />

In the 1950s, Bunin became the first of the Russian writers in exile to be published officially in the USSR. In 1965, ''The Complete Bunin'' came out in Moscow in nine volumes. Some of his more controversial books, notably ''Cursed Days'', remained banned in the Soviet Union until the late 1980s.<ref name="bookmix">[http://bookmix.ru/authors/index.phtml?id=105 Бунин И. А. Биография]. – bookmix.ru.</ref>