Description
In these luminous stories, a master of Russian prose explores the borderlands between memory and dream, beauty and grief, love and its inevitable loss. The title story unfolds through the consciousness of a ship captain’s dog, whose fragmented recollections trace his master’s long descent from happiness into ruin—a meditation on longing and disillusionment rendered with devastating clarity.
Across the collection, Bunin turns his precisely observant eye on the textures of life: the bittersweet pleasures of the Russian countryside, the melancholy of exile, the way time strips away everything we hold most dear. His prose moves between the sensory and the philosophical with effortless grace, finding in small, intimate moments the weight of entire lives.
Written during the early decades of the twentieth century, these stories established Bunin as one of the defining voices of Russian literature—a writer whose work transcends its era to speak with undiminished power to any reader who has known beauty, or loss, or the ache of the irrecoverable past.
Details
Publisher - Wildside Press LLC
Language - English
Case Bound - Cloth
Contributors
By author
Ivan Bunin
Published Date - 2026-03-20
ISBN - 9781667665924
Dimensions - 22.9 x 15.2 x 1.5 cm
Page Count - 208
Perfect Bound
Contributors
By author
Ivan Bunin
Published Date - 2026-03-20
ISBN - 9781667665917
Dimensions - 22.9 x 15.2 x 1.2 cm
Page Count - 208
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