The Life of Arseniev
Author: Ivan Bunin
Translator: Hee-won Lee
Publisher: Jakgajeongshin
Hardcover | 324 pages | 195*140mm
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About This Book
Written during Bunin's period of self-imposed exile in 1927-28, this
work belongs to a popular 19th-century Russian genre: the
autobiographical novel. These novels typically depict the narrator's
childhood as a joyous time, lived amidst the bucolic Russian landscape.
Bunin (1870-1953) carries on the tradition: Arseniev is born into the
shabby gentry (like Bunin) and weathers youth's storms in the heart of
his loving yet eccentric family. Although Bunin won the Nobel
Prize for Literature, he is not well known in the West-a shame given
the elegance of his prose. Aside from some lengthy passages of cloying
sentimentality, Bunin writes evocatively of the period just before the
Russian Revolution. This is a nice companion to Ivan Bunin: Russian
Requiem 1885-1920 (LJ 6/1/93), with an excellent introduction by Wachtel
(Slavic languages, Northwestern Univ.). Recommended for Russian
literature collections. --Diane Gardner Premo
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