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Sunstroke: Selected Stories
by
Ivan Bunin,
Ivan Bunin, Graham Hettlinger (Goodreads Author)
The Gentleman from San Francisco is easily the best known of Ivan Bunin s stories and has achieved the stature of a masterpiece. But Bunin s other stories are not to be missed. In Sunstroke, Graham Hettlinger has selected the Gentleman and twenty-four other stories and translated them afresh several for the first time in English. The result is a collection that is remarkab...more
Hardcover, 205 pages
Published
March 28th 2002
by Ivan R. Dee Publisher
(first published 1995)
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Love is like a sunstroke: it heats heavily and unexpectedly. There are no happy ends in Bunin stories, because love is always a tragedy. The stronger the feelings, the deeper love hurts. True love can't last for a long time. Otherwise, it becomes a tiresome habit.
I have loved Bunin since first discovering him while studying in Russia. Hettlinger's carefully crafted translations best capture Bunin's essence, the play of light and dark that runs throughout his prose. I'm thrilled that these stories can now be enjoyed by a wider audience.
I have read better translations of the same stories in the past. Otherwise I would have given it five stars.
one of my favorite stories...
when you had gone, my heart was broken.
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Ivan Alekseevich Bunin, born October 22, 1870 in Voronezh, was the first Russian author to be awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature (1933). The award cited "the strict artistry with which he has carried on the classical Russian traditions in prose writing."
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