Ivan Bunin

Una Aldea", es uno de los libros m s controvertidos y conocidos de Iv n Bunin, el primer autor ruso en ser galardonado con el premio Nobel de Literatura. La novela transcurre a principios del siglo XX, en una peque a aldea rusa, lugar de nacimiento del propio Bunin, durante la Revoluci n de 1905. Los protagonistas son Tijon y Kuzma Illich, dos hermanos campesinos, uno, peque o comerciante borrachuzo, y otro aspirante a escritor, son el reflejo de la Rusia de la poca. A trav s de estos hermanos, Bunin retrata de forma bella e implacable los tiempos convulsos por los que pasaban millones de habitantes del Imperio Ruso, y de las tremendas dificultades para sobrevivir en una tierra f a y dura. La narraci n amarga, realista e incisiva de Bunin convirtieron a "Una Aldea" en una de las novelas m s controvertidas entre los escritores y pol ticos rusos despu s de su publicaci n. * Iv n Bunin (1870, Voroneje, Rusia Central - 1953, Par s), fue el primer escritor ruso en ser galardonado con el premio Nobel de Literatura. Curs estudios en la Universidad de Mosc y en el a o 1903 recibi el Premio Pushkin de la Academia rusa por sus traducciones del poeta estadounidense Henry Wadsworth Longfellow y de los poetas ingleses Lord Byron y Lord Alfred Tennyson. En los a os que precedieron a la primera guerra europea, viaj por Italia, Turqu a, Palestina, Egipto, Grecia, Argelia, T nez. Tras la Revoluci n bolchevique de 1917, se estableci en Par s. En 1933 recibir a el Premio Nobel de Literatura. Entre sus obras m s destacadas se encuentran "El se or de San Francisco y otros cuentos" (1916) y las novelas "Una aldea" (1910) y "El amor de Mitya" (1925).

"Temnye allei" (1937-1945) - samaja izvestnaja kniga Bunina, sostojaschaja iz rasskazov o ljubvi, etot sbornik sam pisatel schital svoim luchshim tvoreniem. Navernoe, nikto ni do, ni posle Bunina ne sozdal v literature takoj jarkoj, zhivoj i raznoobraznoj "entsiklopedii ljubvi". Dlja Bunina ljubov - kak solnechnyj udar. Ispytat eto chuvstvo khotja by raz v zhizni dano ne kazhdomu, eto i velikoe schaste, i dorogoe serdtsu vospominanie, a poroj i strashnaja tragedija, oborachivajuschajasja smertju. Kazhdaja iz novell, sostavljajuschikh etot sbornik, - otdelnaja istorija ljubvi. Samye izvestnye rasskazy "Temnykh allej" - "Genrikh", "Chistyj ponedelnik", "Natali", "V Parizhe", no, bez somnenija, vy, chitaja etu vdokhnovennuju, uvlekatelnuju knigu, sami vyberete tu istoriju, kotoraja naibolee sozvuchnaja vashemu serdtsu.

Poeticheskij sbornik predstavlen imenami urozhentsev Voronezhskogo kraja ili zhiznenno i tvorcheski svjazannykh s nim: Sergej Marin, Mikhail Milonov, Kondratij Ryleev, Dmitrij Venevitinov, Aleksej Koltsov, Ivan Nikitin, Ivan Bunin, Andrej Platonov, Osip Mandelshtam, Aleksej Prasolov, Anatolij Zhigulin - imenami, znachimymi dlja otechestvennoj kultury. Synovja raznykh epokh, raznovelikie svoimi darovanijami, oni, davno ili nedavno ushedshie, ostajutsja v russkoj literature, kotoraja khranit i ukrepljaet dukhovnye osnovy narodnoj zhizni. Sostavlenie i esse V. V. Budakova.

Considered one of the most influential authors of twentieth century Russian Literature, Ivan Bunin's "Dark Avenues" is the culmination of a life's work which unrelentingly questioned of the political doxa whilst taking his poetic mastery of language to dark new heights. 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 with a rich, elegaic poetics which probes the artistic limits of depicting desire. A prolific writer and fierce political activist, Bunin became the first Russian to win the Nobel prize for Literature in 1933 and was highly influential on his contemporary Russian emigres, Checkov and Nabokov. The "Dark Avenues" is the zenith of his work and one of the most important Russian texts to come out of the twentieth century.

V nastojaschee izdanie voshli izbrannye avtobiograficheskie sochinenija klassika russkoj literatury Ivana Alekseevicha Bunina. Eto zametki, otryvki iz zapisnykh knizhek, "Odesskij dnevnik", v kotorom izlagajutsja sobytija oseni 1905 goda, khronika nobelevskikh dnej i tekst rechi, proiznesennoj Buninym pri vruchenii samoj prestizhnoj literaturnoj premii, a takzhe esse, ozaglavlennoe avtorom "Kak ja pishu" i raskryvajuschee sekrety literaturnogo masterstva. Eti materialy okhvatyvajut gody, prozhitye Buninym v Rossii, a takzhe period emigratsii i javljajutsja bestsennym istochnikom neizvestnykh shirokomu chitatelju faktov i podrobnostej o zhizni i tvorchestve velikogo prozaika.

The Village, Ivan Bunin's first full-length novel, is a bleak and uncompromising portrayal of rural life in south-west Russia. Set at the time of the 1905 Revolution and centring on episodes in the lives of a landowner and his self-educated peasant brother, the book follows characters sunk so far below the average of intelligence as to be scarcely human. A triumph of bitter realism, Bunin's cruel, lyrical prose reveals the pettiness, violence and ignorance of life on the land, foreshadowing the turbulences of Russia in the twentieth century.

Ivan Aleksejevitsj Bunin (1870-1953) står på mange måter i en særstilling blant de russiske forfattere. Han er både klassiker og moderne forfatter og han debuterte i tsar-Russland i en tid som bar preg av oppbrudd og brytninger både i litteraturen og i samfunnet forøvrig. Kjærlighetens dramatikk og andre fortellinger rommer åtte noveller som tematisk spenner fra det før-revolusjonære Russland og i skildringer av landlivet i romantiske vendinger, til kjærlighet og seksualitet med et særlig blikk på det fundamentale i samlivet og det forpliktende i kjærligheten.

"The Gentleman from San Francisco" is easily the best known of Ivan Bunin's stories and has achieved the stature of a masterpiece. But Bunin's other stories and novellas are not to be missed. Over the last several years a great many of them have been freshly and brilliantly translated by Graham Hettlinger. Together, along with four new pieces, they are now published in a one-volume paperback collection of Bunin's greatest writings. In Mr. Hettlinger's renderings readers will see why Bunin was regarded by many of his contemporaries as the rightful successor to Tolstoy and Chekhov as a master of Russian letters.

The first Russian to be awarded the Nobel Prize for literature, Ivan Bunin is often considered the last of the great Russian masters. Already renowned in Russia before the revolution, he fled the country in 1920 and lived the remainder of his life in France, where he continued to write for thirty years. Bunin made his name as a short-story writer with such masterpieces as ""The Gentleman from San Francisco,"" the title piece in one of his collections and one of the stories in this volume. His last book of stories, Dark Avenues, was published in the 1940s. Among his longer works were a fictional autobiography, The Life of Arseniev (1930), and its sequel, Youth (1939), which were later collected into one volume, and two memoirs, The Accursed Days (1926), and Memories and Portraits (1950). He also wrote books on Tolstoy and Chekhov, both of whom he knew personally. Bunin, in fact, serves as a link-both personal and literary-between Tolstoy, whom he met as a young man, Chekhov, a close friend, and Vladimir Nabokov, who was influenced by Bunin early in his career and who moved in the same émigré literary circles in the twenties and thirties. Bunin achieved his greatest mastery in the short story, and much of his finest work appears in this volume-the largest collection of his prose works ever published in English. In Robert Bowie's fine translation, with extensive annotations and a lengthy critical afterword, this work affords readers of English their first opportunity for a sustained encounter with a Russian classic, and one of the great writers of the twentieth century.

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. Bunin's sensual, elaborate, and highly rhythmic prose has proven deeply resistant to earlier translations. In these new stories, Mr. Hettlinger captures both the music and the grace, as well as the literal meaning, of Bunin's renowned prose. The Elagin Affair contains three of the author's greatest novellas, the title piece, "Mitya's Love," and "Sukhodol" 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. Praise for Sunstroke, Graham Hettlinger's first translations of Ivan Bunin: "Bunin is, unaccountably, the least translated of the great Russian writers (and his best work ranks with that of Turgenev and Chekhov). This splendid volume takes an important step toward righting a long-standing wrong."—Kirkus Reviews "Graham Hettlinger's new translation...gives us a Bunin startling in his vividness, sensuality, and restraint."—Virginia Quarterly Review "Vibrant...a fine introduction to Bunin's work and a reminder of its importance."—New York Sun

The Nobel PrizeDwinning author's great anti-Bolshevik diary of the Russian Revolution, translated into English for the first time, with an Introduction and Notes by Thomas Gaiton Marullo. A harrowing description of the forerunners of the concentration camps and the Gulag. Marc Raeff

”The Gentleman from San Francisco” is easily the best known of Ivan Bunin's stories and has achieved the stature of a masterpiece. But Bunin's other stories are not to be missed. In Sunstroke, Graham Hettlinger has selected the “Gentleman” and twenty-four other stories and translated them afresh—several for the first time in English. The result is a collection that is remarkable in its crystalline prose, surprising in its vibrancy. It includes, among others, “Raven,” “Cold Fall,” “Muza,” “Styopa,” “Antigone,” ”In Paris,” and “Late Hour.” Never has the last of the great “gentry” writers and the first Russian to win the Nobel Prize for Literature received a more caring and passionate translation. Sunstroke confirms Bunin's stature as one of the greatest—and most neglected—Russian writers of the twentieth century.