IVAN BUNIN
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The Gentleman From San Francisco And Other Stories
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Powerful, evocative stories from the first Russian author to win the Nobel Prize in Literature.
Drawing artistic inspiration from his personal experience, these 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, 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; and ‘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.
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.
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