Dark Avenues. Novellas and Stories
25 hrs. 42 min.
Language
Russian
Author
Ivan Bunin
Author
Ivan Bunin
Narrator
Vasiliy Kupriyanov
Narrator
Vasiliy Kupriyanov
Description
Ivan Alekseyevich Bunin is one of the greatest masters of the short story in modern Russian literature and an outstanding poet. In 1933, he became the first Russian laureate of the Nobel Prize in Literature. The disc features a collection of stories, “Dark Alleys,” which became the peak of the writer’s late work. “All the stories in this book are only about love—about its ‘dark’ and most often very gloomy and brutal alleys,” Bunin wrote in one of his letters to N.A. Teffi.
Love in Bunin’s prose is a mysterious element that is incompatible with life; an intrusion into the everyday world of the otherworldly; “a solar blow,” carrying such tension of inner forces that neither life nor the human personality can contain.
Even if you have read Ivan Bunin’s collection “Dark Alleys,” listen to these stories performed by the brilliant actress, People’s Artist of the RSFSR, Alla Demidova—and new facets of the marvelous prose style of classical literature from the late 19th century to the first half of the 20th century will be revealed to you.
Love in Bunin’s prose is a mysterious element that is incompatible with life; an intrusion into the everyday world of the otherworldly; “a solar blow,” carrying such tension of inner forces that neither life nor the human personality can contain.
Even if you have read Ivan Bunin’s collection “Dark Alleys,” listen to these stories performed by the brilliant actress, People’s Artist of the RSFSR, Alla Demidova—and new facets of the marvelous prose style of classical literature from the late 19th century to the first half of the 20th century will be revealed to you.
Contents
Novellas and short stories
The Rose of Jericho
Profanity
Departure
Winter Sleep
Gothams
Meteor
Third Class
Temir-Aksak-Khan
Night of Renunciation
A Mad Artist
About Fool Emelya, who turned out to be the cleverest of all
The End
The Reapers
Midnight Glare
Transfiguration
Distant
An Unknown Friend
In a Certain Kingdom
Fire Devouring
An Unurgent Spring
The City of King of Kings
A Saint
Name Day
Scarab Beetles
Music
The Blind Man
Flies
The Neighbor
Bast Shoes
Glory
Inscriptions
Hare
The Book
Mitenka’s Love
The Solar Blow
Ida
Mordovian Sarafan
The Case of Cornet Yelagin
Night
A Burden
Many Waters
A Terrible Story
The Desecrated Savior
In the Garden
God’s Tree
Snowdrop
First Love
The Loveliest of the Sun
On Such a Night
Bernard
Dark Alleys
Dark Alleys
The Caucasus
Ballad
Steppe
Muse
Late Hour
Rusya
Beauty
Little Fool
Antigone
Smaragd
Guest
Wolves
Visiting Cards
Zoyka and Valeria
Tanya
In Paris
Galya Ganskaya
Heinrich
Natalie
On a Certain Familiar Street
River Tavern
Kuma
Beginning
Little Oak Trees
Mademoiselle Clara
Madrid
The Second Coffee Pot
Iron Wool
Cold Autumn
The Steamboat “Saratov”
Raven
Camargue
One Hundred Rupees
Revenge
Swings
Clean Monday
Chapel
In Spring, in Judea
An Overnight Stay
The Rose of Jericho
Profanity
Departure
Winter Sleep
Gothams
Meteor
Third Class
Temir-Aksak-Khan
Night of Renunciation
A Mad Artist
About Fool Emelya, who turned out to be the cleverest of all
The End
The Reapers
Midnight Glare
Transfiguration
Distant
An Unknown Friend
In a Certain Kingdom
Fire Devouring
An Unurgent Spring
The City of King of Kings
A Saint
Name Day
Scarab Beetles
Music
The Blind Man
Flies
The Neighbor
Bast Shoes
Glory
Inscriptions
Hare
The Book
Mitenka’s Love
The Solar Blow
Ida
Mordovian Sarafan
The Case of Cornet Yelagin
Night
A Burden
Many Waters
A Terrible Story
The Desecrated Savior
In the Garden
God’s Tree
Snowdrop
First Love
The Loveliest of the Sun
On Such a Night
Bernard
Dark Alleys
Dark Alleys
The Caucasus
Ballad
Steppe
Muse
Late Hour
Rusya
Beauty
Little Fool
Antigone
Smaragd
Guest
Wolves
Visiting Cards
Zoyka and Valeria
Tanya
In Paris
Galya Ganskaya
Heinrich
Natalie
On a Certain Familiar Street
River Tavern
Kuma
Beginning
Little Oak Trees
Mademoiselle Clara
Madrid
The Second Coffee Pot
Iron Wool
Cold Autumn
The Steamboat “Saratov”
Raven
Camargue
One Hundred Rupees
Revenge
Swings
Clean Monday
Chapel
In Spring, in Judea
An Overnight Stay
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