Dark Avenues Av Ivan Bunin

"The Gentleman from San Francisco" is easily the best known of Ivan Bunin''s stories and has achieved the stature of a masterpiece. But Bunin''s other stories and novellas are not to be missed. Over the last several years...

At once nostalgic for a bygone more innocent age and foreshadowing the turbulences of the twentieth century, Bunin's narrative is a triumph of bitter realism, shot through with the author's classical style and precision of language.

Ivan Aleksejevitsj Bunin (1870-1953) står på mange måter i en særstilling blant de russiske forfattere. Han er både klassiker og moderne forfatter og han debuterte i tsar-Russland i en tid som bar preg av oppbrudd og brytninger både i litteraturen...

<p>Ivan Bunin was the first Russian to win the Nobel Prize in Literature. For his poetry, he was twice awarded Russia''s highest literary honor, the Pushkin Prize. While Bunin''s prose writing is well known, his poetry-though...