Niegdyś

by Ivan Bunin, Irena Bajkowska (Translator), Maria Leśniewska (Translator)

572 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1986

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

[Piotr · Rating 4 out of 5]

Niezwykle ciekawy zbiór, i naprawdę miałem kapitalny pomysł, by w którymś momencie czytać go równolegle ze książką Renaty Lis. Zmienia perspektywę - szczególnie wobec opowiadań napisanych już na emigracji. Moim zdaniem, siłą zbioru są teksty pisane jeszcze w Rosji - niezwykłej wręcz urody. Te emigracyjne - może to sprawa takiego akurat ich doboru - miały dla mnie taka drobną 'skazę' doraźności ... "felietonowości" (od razu przypomniał mi się Józef Roth).
Ale bez wątpienia - bardzo warto.