ABSTRACT
Modernism was confined to a comparatively small group of authors, many of whom prided themselves on keeping aloof from the political and social questions of the day. There were, however, a number of gifted prose writers anxious to continue the realistic tradition in close contact with the social tasks of that period. Whereas V. V. Veresayev and Alexey N. Tolstoy were adapted themselves in time, such important realists as Kuprin, Bunin, Shmelyov, Zaitsev, and Remizov preferred to emigrate and continue their work abroad. Veresayev can be regarded as the most reliable chronicler of the moods and dispositions of the intelligentsia between the nineties and the present period. He is one of the few prerevolutionary authors whose more recent novels, The Deadlock and Sisters, have been widely discussed in the Soviet press. He forms a link between the old and the postrevolutionary realism.
