Antonov Apples. The Life of Arsenyev

I. A. Bunin occupies a special place in the history of Russian literature. A true master of words, the first Russian Nobel laureate, creator of exemplary, "brocade" prose, in the precise definition of V. V. Nabokov. He remained aloof from... fashionable literary trends: "he was not in a hurry to live up to the era," — said G. Adamovich. Possessing an extraordinary gift for sensing the beautiful, Bunin reflected in his work the eternal and elusive beauty of the world, which sometimes illuminates life with a mysterious light. This publication includes stories and novellas by Bunin from different years, as well as the novel "The Life of Arsenyev," written in exile. These works evoke the feeling of momentary emotional experience in the frozen time of pre-revolutionary Russia, in the frozen magnificence of a bygone era.