Verzamelde werken 1 - Verhalen 1892-1913

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

Het proza van Ivan Boenin (1870-1953), waarin de ondergang van de Russische aristocratie een terugkerend thema is, bestaat voor een belangrijk deel uit verhalen. Deel 1 van zijn vierdelige Verzamelde werken bevat 32 verhalen uit de periode 1892-1913.

Genres: Russia, Literature

611 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1994

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

[Frederick · Rating 4 out of 5]

If you have always wanted to know what it would be like to live in the Russian countryside around 1900, this collection of short story will give you a clear but dark and gloomy picture. On the one hand beautiful descriptions of winter landscapes and endless plains, on the other hand a ruthless description of rural conditions.

[Jan Glas · Rating 5 out of 5]

Bunin is my latest crush in literature.

[Erwin · Rating 3 out of 5]

3.75