| Sunstroke: Selected Stories Contributor(s): Bunin, Ivan (Author) |
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ISBN: 1566634261 ISBN-13: 9781566634267 Publisher: Ivan R. Dee Publisher OUR PRICE: $26.96 Product Type: Hardcover Published: January 2002 Annotation: 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. Ivan Bunin is undoubtedly the greatest Russian writer whom no one reads.... It is time to recognize that this politically and culturally incorrect avatar of the Russian gentry was truly a major writer. --American Scholar |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Short Stories (single Author) |
| Dewey: FIC |
| LCCN: 2001052563 |
| Physical Information: 0.86" H x 6.02" W x 8.68" (0.88 lbs) 205 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Russia |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher 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. |