Ivan Bunin’s first published work, The Village is a bleak and uncompromising portrayal of rural life in south-west Russia.
ISBN:
9781847492838
Author:
Ivan Bunin
Page:
165
Binding:
Soft cover
Publication date:
2017
Format:
Book
Publisher:
ALMA BOOKS
Language:
English
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Description
Set at the time of the 1905 Revolution and centering on episodes in the lives of two peasant brothers – “characters sunk so far below the average of intelligence as to be scarcely human” – it reveals the pettiness, violence and ignorance of life on the land. At once nostalgic for a bygone more innocent age and foreshadowing the turbulences of the twentieth century, Bunin’s narrative is a triumph of bitter realism, shot through with the author’s classical style and precision of language.