Review
"His translations are loyal in the fullest sense; each rises to the particular challenge of the author in question."" --The Moscow Times" on Hugh Aplin
Product Description
Considered one of the most influential authors of twentieth century Russian Literature, Ivan Bunin's "Dark Avenues" is the culmination of a life's work which unrelentingly questioned of the political doxa whilst taking his poetic mastery of language to dark new heights. 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 with a rich, elegiac poetics which probes the artistic limits of depicting desire.A prolific writer and fierce political activist, Bunin became the first Russian to win the Nobel prize for Literature in 1933 and was highly influential on his contemporary Russian emigres, Chekhov and Nabokov. The "Dark Avenues" is the zenith of his work and one of the most important Russian texts to come out of the twentieth century.
From the Publisher
New Translation of one of the greatest Russian texts of the 20th Century.
Includes photographs, a 10,000-word section on Bunin's life and works, with a longer chapter on Dark Avenues, anecdotes, critical perspectives, adaptations and spin-offs
Lavishly produced on natural, high-quality paper, and affordably priced
Contains stories never published before.
About the Author
Ivan Alekseyevich Bunin (1870-1953) was the first Russian writer to win the Nobel Prize for Literature. His last book of fiction Dark Avenues is arguably the most widely read 20th-century collection of short stories in Russia.
