Night of denial : stories and novellas
The first Russian to be awarded the Nobel Prize for literature, Ivan Bunin is often considered the last of the great Russian masters. Already renowned in Russia before the revolution, he fled the country in 1920 and lived the remainder of his life in France, where he continued to write for thirty years. Bunin made his name as a short-story writer with such masterpieces as "The Gentleman from San Francisco," the title piece in one of his collections and one of the stories in this volume
Print Book, English, 2006
Northwestern University Press, Evanston, Ill., 2006
Fiction
718 pages ; 20 cm.
9780810114036, 0810114038
66527000
Night of Denial
Stories and NovellasBy Ivan Bunin
NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY PRESS
ISBN: 978-0-8101-1403-6Contents
The Grammar of Love..................................3First Love...........................................15In Paris.............................................17On the Night Sea.....................................29Antonov Apples.......................................39Drydale..............................................59Way Back When........................................135A Passing............................................145The Snow Bull........................................154The Saviour in Desecration...........................158The Sacrifice........................................161Transfiguration......................................167The Gentleman from San Francisco.....................172The Saints...........................................198Zakhar Vorobyov......................................215Glory................................................235Ioann the Weeper.....................................245I'm Saying Nothing...................................253Noosiform Ears.......................................268The Mad Artist.......................................283Sempiternal Spring...................................295In a Never-Never Land................................310An Unknown Friend....................................313The Hare.............................................324The Cranes...........................................326The Calf's Head......................................328The Elephant.........................................330Indulgent Participation..............................332The Idol.............................................338The Consecration of Love.............................340Somber Pathways (Linden Lined).......................410Sunstroke............................................416Shere Monday.........................................425The Cold Fall........................................443Night................................................448The Case of Cornet Elagin............................462Light Breathing......................................507Aglaia...............................................514Temir-Aksak-Khan.....................................526Night of Denial......................................531Notes................................................535Afterword............................................625On Translating Bunin.................................707Acknowledgments......................................717
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