Using her special literary form, Renata Lis tells about the emigrant years of the Russian classic, Nobel Prize winner Ivan Alekseevich Bunin. Following her hero, she goes to Moscow, Paris and Grasse, not adhering to strict chronology, since the book develops according to its own intriguing logic, where there is room for artistic images, personal reflections, and reportage notes. In one of the chapters, the author completely retreats into the shadows, giving his characters the opportunity to speak in full voice.Lis managed to create a surprisingly vivid portrait of Bunin, a man of flesh and blood, a familiar stranger, for which she was awarded and nominated for prestigious literary prizes in Poland.The book concludes with a chronology of the life and work of I.A. Bunin and a list of sources used by R. Lis when writing The image of the writer in the book by Renata Lis is far from the hagiographic sanctity of old canvases. In this colorful and carefully composed mosaic there is a place not only for sympathy, but also for irony, tragedy and tragicomism. The book is distinguished by the rarely seen attention to detail and the accuracy of the selected quotations, the sensitive attitude inherent in Bunin himself to nature and the sharpness of vision.'You're the boss of powshehny'Renata Lis is a modern Polish writer, the author of two biographical books: 'The Hand of Flaubert' (2013) and 'In the Ice of Provence. Bunin in Exile' (2015). The first book was nominated for the national literary Prize of Poland 'Nike', the second was awarded the literary award of the National Library of Poland 'Wings of Daedalus' and entered the final list of the Nike Prize. An excerpt from her latest book "Lesbos", imbued with the image of the ancient Greek poetess Sappho, was published in the St. Petersburg magazine "Zvezda". Essays on modern culture and literature by Renata Lis are published on the pages of the Polish magazine Ksenzki, the online publication Dvutygodnik and in the weekly Politika. Lives in Warsaw.