Verzamelde werken 2 - Verhalen 1913-1930

by Ivan Bunin, Margriet Berg (Translator), Marja Wiebes (Translator)

Deel 2 van Ivan Boenins Verzamelde werken bevat 59 korte en langere verhalen uit de periode 1913-1930. Vertellingen over het Russische platteland worden nu afgewisseld met verhalen die zich afspelen in exotische landen, die Boenin bezocht na zijn definitieve vertrek uit Rusland in de zomer van 1918 als gevolg van de Russsiche revolutie, die hij verafschuwde. Beroemde verhalen 'Mitja's liefde', 'Een heer uit San Francisco' en 'De zaak Kornet Jelagin' en ultrakorte verhalen zoals 'De roos van Jericho' en het aangrijpende 'De kraanvogels' wisselen elkaar af.

Genres: Russia

577 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1930

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.