This collection “Prose. Poetry” includes the best works of the classic of Russian literature Ivan Alekseyevich Bunin—one of the greatest masters of the short story in Russian literature and an outstanding poet. In 1933 he became the first Russian laureate of the Nobel Prize in Literature “for his truthful artistic talent, with which he recreated in prose the typical Russian character,” already while in exile. His works are valuable for us not only for their content, but also for the brilliance of the Russian language—something Ivan Alekseyevich loved and did not forget in exile, and which we so lack today.
Contents:
1. Stories:
Antonov Apples
Mitya’s Love
Dry Valley
Zakhar Vorobyov
Mr. from San Francisco
The Brothers
Rodion the Lyricist
The Grammar of Love
Dark Alleys
Clean Monday
A Sunstroke
Easy Breathing
Ida
Figures
2. Selected poems:
The pines grow fresher every day and get younger…
Three Nights
After the Flood
The pale night…
What a warm and dark dawn…
All the darker and curlier—the birch grove greens…
The Nightingales
The sunset is not yet gone in the distance…
Like a haze, I shut out the fields’ distance for half an hour…
No sun, but the ponds are bright…
Not soon—morning will be soon, not soon…
The fields smell of herbs, fresh grass…
Into the living room, through the garden and dusty curtains…
The pages of an open book run—run…
The last Bumblebee
And flowers, and bumblebees, and grass, and ears…
Asters are falling in the gardens…
Leaf Fall
Evening
A path weaves through the snow, through the wide steppe…
In the departing field
Frosty breath of the blizzard…
Frost
On the window, silvery with hoarfrost…
Twilight
A dense green fir stand by the road
I’ll wake, I’ll wake—outside the windows, in the garden…
Winter night is dim and cold…
The Moon