The Gentleman from San Francisco
And Other Stories
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…
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Weitere Autoren: Bunin, Ivan / Lund, Sophie
- ISBN: 978-0-14-196540-6
- EAN: 9780141965406
- Produktnummer: 17835550
- Verlag: Penguin Books Ltd
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 1992
- Seitenangabe: 224 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 1'910 KB
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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.
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