Dark alleys. Stories and poems

Ivan Alekseevich Bunin (1870-1953)-writer, poet, honorary academician of the St. Petersburg Academy of Sciences, the first Russian Nobel Prize laureate (1933)

Bunin early life began an independent life: in the youth years he worked in the youth newspapers, offices, wandered a lot. Since 1920 he lived in France.

“I have been looking for a combination of beautiful and eternal in this world,” Bunin wrote. His first poetic collection was published in 1891. Later the collection “Listopad”, along with the translation of “Songs of Gayavat”, was marked by the Pushkin Prize of the St. Petersburg Academy of Sciences (1903) and gained the glory of the “poet of the Russian landscape”.

Bunin's debut as a prose writer took place in 1893, when his story “Village Sketch”, later called “Tanka”, was printed in the St. Petersburg journal “Russian Wealth”. After acquaintance with the manuscript, the editor of the magazine wrote to the twenty -year -old author that over time a big writer will come out of him... I. A. Bunin’s prose is unusually picturesque, colorful, deep.

Bunin wrote: “There is no separate from us Nature, every movement of air is the movement of our own life ”...

The book includes stories and poems by I.A. Bunin studied at school.