RUSSISCHE REVOLUTION: In der südrussischen Provinz spielen sich menschliche Dramen ab. So mündet in der Erzählung ›Ignat‹ pure Leidenschaft in eine Katastrophe, wird in ›Ein Verbrechen‹ im Wahn ein Mord begangen und scheitert in ›Vera‹ eine große Liebe. Der spätere Nobelpreisträger Iwan Bunin hat in den 1912 entstandenen fünf Erzählungen eine neue Stufe der Meisterschaft erreicht.
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.
Interessanter Einblick in Bunins Prosa, die sich vor allem durch schöne, atmosphärische Beschreibungen auszeichnen und diese mit einem Einblick in das russische Dorfleben um 1900 kombinieren, ohne dabei etwas Tieferes erzählen zu wollen.