Ivan Bunin - (Paperback)

About the Book

"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 tr...

Book Synopsis

"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.

Review Quotes

"Ivan Bunin...is one of the finest story writers of the twentieth century, a master of tone and experiment." --Gary Saul Morson

"[Bunin is] one of the great literary masters of the twentieth century...[his is a] powerful and pellucid art." --Cynthia Ozick, author of The Pagan Rabbi and Other Stories

"Russian exile Bunin (1870-1953), who won the Nobel Prize in 1933, becomes stunningly accessible in this beautiful new translation." --Publishers Weekly

"The translation is graceful and essentially accurate." --Richard Lourie, The Wall Street Journal

"Emotional intensity in remembrance that recalls Proust....Stunningly accessible...beautiful new translation." --Publishers Weekly

"Fluid new translations...this piercingly lyrical collection renders fully the passion of the human heart and the power of memories." --LELIA RUCKENSTEIN, The Review of Higher Education

"Now we have a new and comprehensive volume of [Bunin's] fiction, Collected Stories of Ivan Bunin, beautifully translated by Graham Hettlinger." --New York Sun

"[Hettlinger's translations] are a joy to read." --Slavic and East European Journal

About the Author

Ivan Bunin won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1933. After the Russian Revolution, he spent his remaining years in exile in France. Graham Hettlinger lives in Bethesda, Maryland.