<b>By the Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature</b>

A much neglected literary figure, Ivan Bunin is one of Russia's major writers and ranks with Tolstoy and Chekhov at the forefront of the Russian Realists. Drawing artistic inspiration from his personal experience, these powerful, evocative stories are set in the late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Russia of his youth, in the countries that he visited and in France, where he spent the last thirty years of his life. In the title story, for example, a family's tour of fashionable European resorts comes to an unexpected end; 'Late Hour' describes an old man's return to the little Russian town in the steppes that he has not seen since his early youth; while 'Mitya's Love' explores the darker emotional reverberations of sexual experience. Throughout his stories there is a sense of the precariousness of existence, an omnipresent awareness of the impermanence of human aspirations and achievements.
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Presents stories which are set in the late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Russia.
The Gentleman from San Francisco and Other StoriesIntroductionThe Gentleman from San FranciscoThe Primer of LoveChang's DreamsTemir-Aksak-KhanLong AgoAn Unknown FriendAt Sea, at NightGraffitiMitya's LoveSunstrokeNightThe CaucasusLate HourVisiting CardsZoyka and ValeriaThe Riverside TavernA Cold Autumn
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Author won Nobel Prize for Literature in 1933

Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9780140185522
Publisert
1992-03-26
Utgiver
Vendor
Penguin Classics
Vekt
200 gr
Høyde
198 mm
Bredde
129 mm
Dybde
15 mm
Aldersnivå
00, G, 01
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
224

Biographical note

Ivan Alekseyevich Bunin (1870 – 1953) was the first Russian writer to win the Nobel Prize for Literature. The texture of his poems and stories, sometimes referred to as "Bunin brocade", is one of the richest in the language. His last book of fiction, The Dark Avenues (1943), is arguably the most widely read 20th-century collection of short stories in Russia.