Full Description
"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.
Contents
Part 1 Acknowledgements ix
Part 2 Introduction xi
Part 3 Sunstroke 3
Part 4 Summer Day 13
Part 5 Raven 15
Part 6 Sky Above a Wall 23
Part 7 Ida 25
Part 8 Cranes 36
Part 9 Caucasus 38
Part 10 The Hunchback's Affair 44
Part 11 Ballad 46
Part 12 First Class 54
Part 13 Cold Fall 56
Part 14 Calf's Head 62
Part 15 The Gentleman from San Francisco 64
Part 16 Little Fool 91
Part 17 Muza 94
Part 18 Old Woman 103
Part 19 Rusya 105
Part 20 Old and Young 118
Part 21 Styopa 123
Part 22 On One Familiar Street 130
Part 23 Antigone 133
Part 24 Zoyka and Valeriya 144
Part 25 In Paris 160
Part 26 The Eve 173
Part 27 Late Hour 175
Part 28 Notes 183
