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Collected Stories of Ivan Bunin
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Washington, USA (Washington Post): Graham Hettlinger's fluid new translations should help us rediscover an author who, like Chekhov, evocatively portrayed the vanishing world of Russia's large estates after the emancipation of the serfs in 1861. Born in 1870, Bunin witnessed as a child the disintegration of his aristocratic family's own estate. After the 1917 Revolution, he fled the Bolsheviks, never to return. Written between 1900 and 1944, almost all of the 35 stories in this collection – ranging from imagistic sketches and folk legends to tales of obsessive love and eroticism – are aching recreations of Bunin's homeland.
Translated from the Russian by Graham Hettlinger
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