Kjærlighetens Grammatikk 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.

Written between 1938 and 1944 and set in the context of a disintegrating Russian culture, this collection of short fiction centres around dark, erotic liaisons told in prose.

<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...