Иван Алексеевич Бунин Livres

The gentleman from San Francisco—nobody either in Capri or Naples ever remembered his name—was setting out with his wife and daughter for the Old World, to spend there two years of pleasure. He was fully convinced of his right to rest, to enjoy long and comfortable travels, and so forth. Because, in the first place he was rich, and in the second place, notwithstanding his fifty-eight years, he was just starting to live. Up to the present he had not lived, but only existed; quite well, it is true, yet with all his hopes on the future. He had worked incessantly—and the Chinamen whom he employed by the thousand in his factories knew what that meant. Now at last he realized that a great deal had been accomplished, and that he had almost reached the level of those whom he had taken as his ideals, so he made up his mind to pause for a breathing space. Men of his class usually began their enjoyments with a trip to Europe, India, Egypt. He decided to do the same. He wished naturally to reward himself in the first place for all his years of toil, but he was quite glad that his wife and daughter should also share in his pleasures. True, his wife was not distinguished by any marked susceptibilities, but then elderly American women are all passionate travellers. As for his daughter, a girl no longer young and somewhat delicate, travel was really necessary for her: apart from the question of health, do not happy meetings often take place in the course of travel? One may find one’s self sitting next to a multimillionaire at table, or examining frescoes side by side with him.

This volume includes stories written over a period of forty-five years by Ivan Bunin (1870-1953), a major Russian prose writer and poet. The book opens with one of his best known early stories "Apple Fragrance". While poeticising the country estate life into which he had been born and which he loved for its lingering beauty even in its decline and impoverishment, Bunin was not blind to the shortcomings of this life. The theme that runs through his entire work is the theme of love. The boldness with which he describes love is combined with a classic clarity and perfection of verbal form, a style which was entirely novel and Bunin's own, and in which he remains unsurpassed. Included in this volume are his masterpieces "Light Breathing", "The Last Rendezvous", "Chang's Dreams", "Mitya's Love", "Sunstroke", and the stories from the book Shadowed Paths "Heinrich", "Tania", "Natalie", and others.

Set against the backdrop of Moscow and Odessa in 1918 and 1919 these are the great anti-Bolshevik diaries of Ivan Bunin, the first Russian to be awarded the Nobel prize for literature. Originally published in 1936 but banned during the Soviet period, these diaries are now translated into English for the first time by the distinguished Professor of Russian History at the University of Notre Dame, Thomas Gaiton Marullo. Bunin despised the Bolsheviks, whom he believed were ruining his beloved country. In these diaries he recreates the time of revolution and civil war with graphic and gripping immediacy. His uncompromising truths are jolting. His pain and suffering in watching the overthrow of his country by ¿thugs¿ and the chaos of civil war, and his fears for the devastation of ¿patriarchal¿ Russian culture, consumed his days and receive vivid expression in his diaries. An original and important contribution to our understanding of this tumultuous period by a master of prose and a perceptive social critic.

In this second volume of his major work on Bunin, the neglected master of Russian letters, Thomas Marullo recreates his life in exile, chiefly in Paris, after escaping from his newly bolshevized country in 1920. Drawing from Bunin's correspondence, his diaries, and his stories, and translating most of these materials into English for the first time, Mr. Marullo gives us a vivid picture of a man suddenly and agonizingly without a country. Bunin's life and art, which depended so heavily on traditional Russian values, seemed to be overthrown in a moment, and the writer found himself marooned amidst Western culture, clinging to his old ideals. Through his writings we are also provided a window on the lively but despairing and often fractious community of Russian emigrés in Paris in the twenties, which included Stravinsky, Rachmaninoff Chafiapin, Prokofiev, Chagall, Kandinsky, Pavlova, Diaghilev, and Zamyatin. The volume ends in 1933, when Bunin became the first Russian to receive the Nobel Prize in literature. Mr. Marullo's first volume, Ivan Russian Requiem , was widely acclaimed. Gary Saul Morson of Northwestern "It engages the reader from the first page ...Marullo has an eye for the perfect quotation." Ruth Rischin, in the Russian Review , described the book as "elegantly crafted... a serious achievement."

Ivan Bunin, the first Russian Nobel laureate in Literature, is celebrated for his prose but has been overlooked in the realm of poetry. Despite receiving critical acclaim and honors like the Pushkin Prize, his poetic works have not garnered the attention they deserve. Esteemed contemporaries such as Blok, Gorky, and Nabokov recognized the quality of his poetry, highlighting its significance in the literary landscape. This book seeks to bring Bunin's poetic contributions to light, emphasizing their importance alongside his more recognized prose.

Soubor třinácti povídek představuje básníka, prozaika, esejistu a překladatele Jana Zábranu (1931-1984) jako mimořádného autora povídek, průkopníka užívání hovorového jazyka a slangu v české próze a významného prozaika let padesátých, kdy povídky vznikly. V knize je obsaženo sedm povídek již dříve knižně vydaných, jedna povídka publikovaná časopisecky a pět zcela neznámých prozaických textů. Hrdiny Zábranových povídek jsou většinou mladí lidé, pracující na počátku padesátých let v dělnických profesích či pohybující se na okraji společnosti. Povídky jsou dokonale vystavěné a mají strhující tah. Klíčový je též jejich jazyk, v jehož užívání byl Jan Zábrana suverénním mistrem.

Die frühen, zwischen 1890 und 1909 publizierten Erzählungen spiegeln die literarische Entwicklung Bunins von seinen noch fast jugendlichen Anfängen bis zu der Zeit, als er in Russland bereits ein angesehener Autor war, der 1909 den prestigeträchtigen Puschkin-preis erhielt und Ehrenmitglied der Akademie wurde. Die vorliegenden Erzählungen zeigen mit großer Schärfe die tiefen wirtschaftlichen Probleme, den Hunger, den Niedergang des kleinen Adels, die erzwungene Auswanderung zahlreicher Bauern. Doch richtet sich der Blick unvoreingenommen auf die Menschen selbst, auf die manchmal skurrilen Landbewohner, die kleinen Momente von Glück und Trauer.

Soubor šesti psychologických novel, které spojuje navzájem téma lásky a smrti.

Iwan Bunin ist in den 1920er-Jahren der wohl berühmteste russische Emigrationsschriftsteller in Paris. Die meisten der Erzählungen im Band Der Sonnenstich aber spielen in Russland. Bei einem leicht nostalgischen Unterton weisen sie eine meisterhafte epische Tiefe auf. An der ambivalenten Liebe zumeist junger Männer zu souveränen, eigenwilligen Frauen zeigen sich die Grenzen der Beherrschbarkeit des Lebens. Die Erzählung »Mitjas Liebe«, die Rilke und Thomas Mann faszinierte, zeichnet die Psychologie der unglücklichen Verliebtheit eines jungen Mannes nach. Fast noch paradoxer, elementarer zeigt sich die Liebe in der brillanten Geschichte von »Kornett Jelagin«, der vor Gericht steht, weil er eine Frau umgebracht haben soll. »Der Sonnenstich« schließlich erzählt von einer flüchtigen, rätselhaften Liebesaffäre auf einer Wolgareise.