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Iván Bunin

The Gentleman from San Francisco, and Other Stories

Drawing artistic inspiration from Bunin's personal experience, these powerful, evocative stories are set in the late nineteenth— and early twentieth-century Russia of his youth, in the countries that he visited and in France, where he spent the last thirty years of his life. In the title story, for example, a family's tour of fashionable European resorts comes to an unexpected end; 'Late Hour' describes an old man's return to the little Russian town in the steppes that he has not seen since his early youth; while 'Mitya's Love' explores the darker emotional reverberations of sexual experience. Throughout his stories there is a sense of the precariousness of existence, an omnipresent awareness of the impermanence of human aspirations and achievements.
73 printed pages
Publication year
2019
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