Wolves and Other Love Stories

by Ivan Bunin

English (translation)Original Russian

Genres: Short Stories, Fiction

192 pages, Paperback

Published January 1, 1989

About the author

Ivan Alekseyevich Bunin (Russian: Иван Алексеевич Бунин) was the first Russian writer to win the Nobel Prize for Literature. He was noted for the strict artistry with which he carried on the classical Russian traditions in the writing of prose and poetry. The texture of his poems and stories, sometimes referred to as "Bunin brocade", is considered to be one of the richest in the language.

Best known for his short novels The Village (1910) and Dry Valley (1912), his autobiographical novel The Life of Arseniev (1933, 1939), the book of short stories Dark Avenues (1946) and his 1917–1918 diary ( Cursed Days, 1926), Bunin was a revered figure among anti-communist White emigres, European critics, and many of his fellow writers, who viewed him as a true heir to the tradition of realism in Russian literature established by Leo Tolstoy and Anton Chekhov.

He died November 8, 1953 in Paris.

Reviews

[Daniel Polansky]

Brief vignettes celebrating the raw potency of life, counterpoised against its bleak and brutal injustices. I delighted in the soaring descriptions of young love, oft-betrayed, and the ferocious intensity it offers to all of the surrounding experiences. Grand stuff by Russia's first Nobel prize winner for literature.

[David Tykulsker · Rating 3 out of 5]

Only the painful version, usually death or loss of uneven length and quality, usually set in Tsarist Russia.

[linh · Rating 2 out of 5]

same motifs. some definitely stood out. hopelessness, in love and in life, is a frequent theme.