Dark Alleys

The prose of Ivan Bunin is always about love. About love for Russia, nature, and woman.

For Bunin, true feeling is an unattainable summit that a person strives for, dreaming of understanding, unity with another person, with the world, but never truly gains it forever, until the end of their days. The collection "Dark Alleys" includes stories and tales about fatal love, passion that later turns into loss and is therefore tragic.

Only moments of love, lifting a person to the peak of happiness. And then inevitably comes the fall. Inevitable and catastrophic. Forever destroying the harmony of this world.