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One of the great achievements of 20th-century Russian �migr� literature, Dark Avenues—the culmination of a life’s work of unrelenting challenge to Soviet dogma—took Bunin’s poetic mastery of language, eventually known for its richness as "Bunin brocade," to new heights. Written between 1938 and 1944 and set in the context of the Russian cultural and historical crises of the preceding decades, this collection of short fiction centers around dark, erotic liaisons. Love in its many varied forms is the unifying motif in a rich range of narratives, characterized by the evocative, elegiac, elegant prose for which Bunin is rightly renowned.
- Sales Rank: #1848948 in Books
- Brand: Brand: Oneworld Classics
- Published on: 2008-10-01
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 7.50" h x 1.00" w x 5.00" l, .70 pounds
- Binding: Paperback
- 350 pages
- Used Book in Good Condition
Review
"An astonishing writer whose work cries out for rediscovery."� �—New York Sun
"His translations are loyal in the fullest sense; each rises to the particular challenge of the author in question."� —The Moscow Times on Hugh Aplin
About the Author
Ivan Bunin (1870–1953) was the first Russian writer to win the Nobel Prize for Literature. Dark Avenues, his last book of fiction, is arguably the most widely read 20th-century collection of short stories in Russia. Hugh Aplin is head of Russian at Westminster School and has translated a number of Russian classics, including Chekhov's The Story of a Nobody and Three Years and Dostoyevsky's The Double, The Eternal Husband, and Poor People.
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A Russian de Maupassant
By Luc REYNAERT
As the artist in `Galya Ganskaya' states, `I spent two springs in Paris, imagined myself to be a second Maupassant when matters of love were concerned.' While Ivan Bunin's themes in this bundle of short stories are largely the same as those of de Maupassant, their treatment is different.
Amorous encounters
Ivan Bunin's dark avenues of carnal love are mostly a combination of short amorous/carnal encounters/one night stands (Loyka and Valeria, Styopa, The Simpleton, A Visitor, The Beginning, Calling Cards, A Riverside Inn, Heinrich, Vengeance, Galina Ganskaya, Upon a Long-Familiar Street, The Oaklings, Antigone, Pure Monday) or pure `paid intercourses' (Miss Klara, Madrid, The Steamer Saratov) .
Other themes are reminiscences of former loves and lovers (A Late Hour, Rusya, Dark Avenues), a love triangle (Caucasus), the fate of a son from a former marriage (A Beauty), adolescent love (Natalie) and `animal' stories (Iron Coat, Wolves).
`The Raven' is a variant of `First Love' by Ivan Turgenev, while war (the only socio-political issue in this bundle) lays at the heart of `A Cold Autumn'.
These stories shine through their unexpected U-turns (sexual and relational) with sudden surrenders and abrupt endings.
Women and Men
In Bunin's stories women are more emotionally involved than men. As a former beloved woman says in `Dark Avenues: `Youth passes for everyone but love is a different matter.' They can also be inconsistent (Mura), but are mostly victims (and certainly if they are maids) of irresponsible male behavior.
While some men feel `secret wounds', because they have been abandoned by their wife (In Paris), torn away from a girlfriend (Rusya) or experienced a dying love (A Late Hour), most of them flee away from their responsibility like thieves in the night after having satisfied their sexual drive or after taking brutal revenge.
Bunin and de Maupassant
The stories of both authors cover mainly the same social background of the bourgeoisie and the upper classes. But, while de Maupassant criticizes directly and severely their hypocrisy, Bunin's stories don't have the aim to transcend the level of pure individual emotional feelings.
Technically, de Maupassant's stories are rough diamonds, while those of Bunin are polished gems.
The stories of both authors should not be missed.
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Uneven but occasionally brilliant short stories on sex and death
By S. Smith-Peter
I am somewhat ambivalent about this collection of short stories. The theme is, without a doubt, the link between sex and death. When I started reading the collection, it was as if I was hearing the lowest note on the piano. Then in the next story I heard it again. "That's interesting," I thought. Then it came again. And again. "Enough already," I thought. I mean, yes, there is a connection between sex and death, but at the same time there's also a connection between sex and life and between not having sex and death.
The worst stories are those in which a woman is abused in some way and then falls in love with her tormentor and lives a life of sacrifice for no apparent reason. However, there are also truly great stories, like "In Paris" or "Pure Monday", which have very real and likable female characters that have complex feelings and are capable of love that is believable and moving.
The collection includes the Russian original of the title story, "Dark Avenues," which is about a nobleman who meets the former serf girl he used to love. In English it didn't move me much. In Russian, though, it was clear how much he was influenced by Pushkin. Also, the Russian dialogue is far more expressive, because it shows that she still referred to him formally, while he spoke to her informally, thus highlighting the social gap between them. The story was written in 1938 and I couldn't help but feel all the archaic vocabulary was at least partly an attempt to make the present go away, if only for the space of the story. The theme of nobleman mistreating a lower class girl, which is in this story and others, has links to the Russian Revolution. It's almost as if Bunin was writing these stories in a mood of both celebration and repentance.
There is a very useful short biography of Bunin at the end that puts his work in a larger context, as well as a list of further reading. Foreign words and terms are glossed in helpful footnotes.
As an introduction to Bunin's stories, I'd recommend the Northwestern University Press volume, Night of Denial. However, reading this collection is an excellent way to get a deeper sense of the themes of the collection as a whole.
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