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
