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PublisherAlma Classics

ISBN-101847494749

ISBN-139781847494740

eBay Product ID (ePID)217606940

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Book TitleDark Avenues

Number of Pages352 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication Year2015

TopicClassics, Short Stories (Single Author), Literary

IllustratorYes

GenreFiction

AuthorIvan Bunin

FormatTrade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height1 in

Item Weight11.6 Oz

Item Length7.9 in

Item Width5.2 in

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Intended AudienceTrade

Reviews"Bunin can perhaps be viewed as the sensual celebrant of White Russian decadence, but he has the lyrical power of Turgenev and understands human relations with striking percipience. Highly recommended." - RTÉ "I do not know any other writer whose external world is so closely tied to another, whose sensations are more exact and indispensable, and whose world is more genuine and also more unexpected." - André Gide, "I do not know any other writer whose external world is so closely tied to another, whose sensations are more exact and indispensable, and whose world is more genuine and also more unexpected." --André Gide, "Bunin can perhaps be viewed as the sensual celebrant of White Russian decadence, but he has the lyrical power of Turgenev and understands human relations with striking percipience. Highly recommended." - RT "I do not know any other writer whose external world is so closely tied to another, whose sensations are more exact and indispensable, and whose world is more genuine and also more unexpected." - Andr Gide, "Bunin can perhaps be viewed as the sensual celebrant of White Russian decadence, but he has the lyrical power of Turgenev and understands human relations with striking percipience. Highly recommended." -- RTÉ "I do not know any other writer whose external world is so closely tied to another, whose sensations are more exact and indispensable, and whose world is more genuine and also more unexpected." --André Gide

Dewey Edition23

Dewey Decimal891.733

SynopsisAn achievement of twentieth-century Russian émigré literature, Dark Avenues --translated here for the first time into English in its entirety--by Ivan Bunin, Russia's first Nobel Prize winner., One of the great achievements of twentieth-century Russian .migr. literature, Dark Avenues . translated here for the first time into English in its entirety . took Bunin.s poetic mastery of language to new heights. Written between 1938 and 1944 and set in the context of the Russian cultural and historical crises of the preceding decades, this collection of short fiction centres around dark, erotic liaisons. Love . in its many varied forms . is the unifying motif in a rich range of narratives, characterized by the evocative, elegiac, elegant prose for which Bunin is renowned., One of the great achievements of twentieth-century Russian émigré literature, Dark Avenues --translated here for the first time into English in its entirety--took Bunin's poetic mastery of language to new heights. Written between 1938 and 1944 and set in the context of the Russian cultural and historical crises of the preceding decades, this collection of short fiction centres around dark, erotic liaisons. Love--in its many varied forms--is the unifying motif in a rich range of narratives, characterized by the evocative, elegiac, elegant prose for which Bunin is renowned., One of the great achievements of twentieth-century Russian migr literature, Dark Avenues --translated here for the first time into English in its entirety--took Bunin's poetic mastery of language to new heights. Written between 1938 and 1944 and set in the context of the Russian cultural and historical crises of the preceding decades, this collection of short fiction centres around dark, erotic liaisons. Love--in its many varied forms--is the unifying motif in a rich range of narratives, characterized by the evocative, elegiac, elegant prose for which Bunin is renowned.

LC Classification NumberPG3453.B9