Ivan Alexejevič Bunin Libros

The gentleman from San Francisco, whose name was forgotten in Capri and Naples, was embarking on a two-year journey to the Old World with his wife and daughter. He felt entitled to this break, believing he had earned the right to enjoy life after years of hard work. At fifty-eight, he considered himself just beginning to truly live, having previously only existed, albeit comfortably, with his aspirations set on the future. His relentless work in the factories employing thousands of Chinamen had brought him success, and he now felt he had reached the status of his ideals, prompting him to take a pause for leisure. Like many of his peers, he planned to start his enjoyment with a trip to Europe, India, or Egypt. He was eager to reward himself for his labor, but also wanted his family to share in these experiences. While his wife lacked notable sensitivities, she was a passionate traveler, a trait common among elderly American women. His daughter, no longer young and somewhat fragile, needed the journey for her health, and he believed that travel often led to serendipitous encounters, like sitting next to a multimillionaire at dinner or admiring frescoes together.

This volume includes stories written over a period of forty-five years by Ivan Bunin (1870-1953), a major Russian prose writer and poet. The book opens with one of his best known early stories "Apple Fragrance". While poeticising the country estate life into which he had been born and which he loved for its lingering beauty even in its decline and impoverishment, Bunin was not blind to the shortcomings of this life. The theme that runs through his entire work is the theme of love. The boldness with which he describes love is combined with a classic clarity and perfection of verbal form, a style which was entirely novel and Bunin's own, and in which he remains unsurpassed. Included in this volume are his masterpieces "Light Breathing", "The Last Rendezvous", "Chang's Dreams", "Mitya's Love", "Sunstroke", and the stories from the book Shadowed Paths "Heinrich", "Tania", "Natalie", and others.

One of the great achievements of 20th-century Russian émigré literature, Dark Avenues —the culmination of a life’s work of unrelenting challenge to Soviet dogma—took Bunin’s poetic mastery of language, eventually known for its richness as "Bunin brocade," to new heights. Written between 1938 and 1944 and set in the context of the Russian cultural and historical crises of the preceding decades, this collection of short fiction centers around dark, erotic liaisons. Love in its many varied forms is the unifying motif in a rich range of narratives, characterized by the evocative, elegiac, elegant prose for which Bunin is rightly renowned.

In this second volume of his major work on Bunin, the neglected master of Russian letters, Thomas Marullo recreates his life in exile, chiefly in Paris, after escaping from his newly bolshevized country in 1920. Drawing from Bunin's correspondence, his diaries, and his stories, and translating most of these materials into English for the first time, Mr. Marullo gives us a vivid picture of a man suddenly and agonizingly without a country. Bunin's life and art, which depended so heavily on traditional Russian values, seemed to be overthrown in a moment, and the writer found himself marooned amidst Western culture, clinging to his old ideals. Through his writings we are also provided a window on the lively but despairing and often fractious community of Russian emigrés in Paris in the twenties, which included Stravinsky, Rachmaninoff Chafiapin, Prokofiev, Chagall, Kandinsky, Pavlova, Diaghilev, and Zamyatin. The volume ends in 1933, when Bunin became the first Russian to receive the Nobel Prize in literature. Mr. Marullo's first volume, Ivan Russian Requiem , was widely acclaimed. Gary Saul Morson of Northwestern "It engages the reader from the first page ...Marullo has an eye for the perfect quotation." Ruth Rischin, in the Russian Review , described the book as "elegantly crafted... a serious achievement."

Set against the backdrop of Moscow and Odessa in 1918 and 1919 these are the great anti-Bolshevik diaries of Ivan Bunin, the first Russian to be awarded the Nobel prize for literature. Originally published in 1936 but banned during the Soviet period, these diaries are now translated into English for the first time by the distinguished Professor of Russian History at the University of Notre Dame, Thomas Gaiton Marullo. Bunin despised the Bolsheviks, whom he believed were ruining his beloved country. In these diaries he recreates the time of revolution and civil war with graphic and gripping immediacy. His uncompromising truths are jolting. His pain and suffering in watching the overthrow of his country by ¿thugs¿ and the chaos of civil war, and his fears for the devastation of ¿patriarchal¿ Russian culture, consumed his days and receive vivid expression in his diaries. An original and important contribution to our understanding of this tumultuous period by a master of prose and a perceptive social critic.

Ivan Bunin, the first Russian Nobel laureate in Literature, is celebrated for his prose but has been overlooked in the realm of poetry. Despite receiving critical acclaim and honors like the Pushkin Prize, his poetic works have not garnered the attention they deserve. Esteemed contemporaries such as Blok, Gorky, and Nabokov recognized the quality of his poetry, highlighting its significance in the literary landscape. This book seeks to bring Bunin's poetic contributions to light, emphasizing their importance alongside his more recognized prose.

Soubor třinácti povídek představuje básníka, prozaika, esejistu a překladatele Jana Zábranu (1931-1984) jako mimořádného autora povídek, průkopníka užívání hovorového jazyka a slangu v české próze a významného prozaika let padesátých, kdy povídky vznikly. V knize je obsaženo sedm povídek již dříve knižně vydaných, jedna povídka publikovaná časopisecky a pět zcela neznámých prozaických textů. Hrdiny Zábranových povídek jsou většinou mladí lidé, pracující na počátku padesátých let v dělnických profesích či pohybující se na okraji společnosti. Povídky jsou dokonale vystavěné a mají strhující tah. Klíčový je též jejich jazyk, v jehož užívání byl Jan Zábrana suverénním mistrem.

The most complete collection of stories by Ivan Bunin about love. (0.745 kg.)

Die frühen, zwischen 1890 und 1909 publizierten Erzählungen spiegeln die literarische Entwicklung Bunins von seinen noch fast jugendlichen Anfängen bis zu der Zeit, als er in Russland bereits ein angesehener Autor war, der 1909 den prestigeträchtigen Puschkin-preis erhielt und Ehrenmitglied der Akademie wurde. Die vorliegenden Erzählungen zeigen mit großer Schärfe die tiefen wirtschaftlichen Probleme, den Hunger, den Niedergang des kleinen Adels, die erzwungene Auswanderung zahlreicher Bauern. Doch richtet sich der Blick unvoreingenommen auf die Menschen selbst, auf die manchmal skurrilen Landbewohner, die kleinen Momente von Glück und Trauer.