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  • by Ivan Bunin
    £8.99

    Written between 1938 and 1944 and set in the context of a disintegrating Russian culture, this collection of short fiction centres around dark, erotic liaisons told in prose.

  • - The Poetry of Ivan Bunin
    by Ivan Bunin
    £10.49

    Ivan Bunin was the first Russian to win the Nobel Prize in Literature. For his poetry, he was twice awarded Russia''s highest literary honor, the Pushkin Prize. While Bunin''s prose writing is well known, his poetry-though highly praised by critics and contemporaries such as Blok, Gorky and Nabokov-has been unjustly ignored. This collection of over 100 verse translations is the first English language book of Bunin''s poetry. Spanning a long period of poetic output (1886-1952), this selection includes both published and unpublished poems. In a variety of forms, they cover an astonishing range of topics and reveal a writer with singular artistic precision and deep humanity.

  • by Ivan Bunin
    £12.99 - 18.99

    Denne samling indeholder et udvalg af den russiske nobelpristager Ivan Bunins bedste noveller. Det er et repræsentativt udvalg fra forfatterskabet, som spænder fra 1915 til 1949. Bunin fik som den første russiske forfatter Nobelprisen i 1933 med følgende begrundelse: “For den stringente artistiske færdighed, med hvilken han har videreført de klassiske russiske traditioner i prosadigtning.” Bunins noveller ligger tematisk og stilistisk i forlængelse af Tolstojs og Tjekhovs forfatterskaber, men han videreudvikler og forfiner stilen, og det sanselige og erotiske er mere fremtrædende. Stilen i novellerne er kendetegnet ved en lyrisk musikalsk tone, og beskrivelserne er præcise med en malers øje for detaljerne, men samtidig kontrollerede uden overflødige ord. De skaber en stemning, der underbygger personernes følelser og oplevelser. De centrale temaer er kærlighed, erotisk besættelse, desillusionering og livets forgængelighed, og de er typisk bygget op over en afgørende hændelse i hovedpersonens liv. Som eksempler på Bunins stilistiske rækkevidde kan nævnes ”Et let åndedræt”, hvor en ung piges tragiske skæbne udfoldes på mindre end seks effektive sider; den melankolsk ildevarslende ”Et koldt efterår”, som maler undergangen af det gamle Rusland i efterårsfarver; og Mitjas kærlighed, der indlevet skildrer et ungt og skrøbeligt sind. Bunins noveller er ikke bagateller, men højdepunkter i novellens historie.” – Ole Nyegaard i Efterskriftet. “ At læse Bunin er altid opløftende, fordi hans værker mere overbevisende end nogen anden russisk forfatters, med undtagelse måske af Pusjkins, bekræfter Pasternaks påstand om, at ’kunst, selv tragedie, er et vidnesbyrd om glæden ved at være i live.’” – David Richards

  • by Ivan Bunin
    £7.99

    At once nostalgic for a bygone more innocent age and foreshadowing the turbulences of the twentieth century, Bunin's narrative is a triumph of bitter realism, shot through with the author's classical style and precision of language.

  • - And Other Stories
    by Ivan Bunin
    £17.99

    Graham Hettlinger's brilliant translations of Bunin's stories in Sunstroke (2002) were widely acclaimed. In The Elagin Affair, Mr. Hettlinger continues to acquaint English-language readers with a Bunin they may not have appreciated. The Elagin Affair contains two of the author's greatest novellas, the title piece and "Mitya's Love," as well as a broad range of stories written between 1900 and 1940 and centered on themes of love, loss, and the Russian landscape, including several of Bunin's most haunting stories from his final collection, Dark Avenues.

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