Mitina Love. Bunin I.

The best stories and novels of Bunin. They belong to different periods of his work and different genres - from "pure" realism to stylization under fairy tales and legends. Their heroes become the poor peasants, then thirsting for love (or at least a short hobby) of men and women from privileged strata of society, or the inhabitants of the distant, exotic East.

But two topics that have always prevailed in the work of Bunin remain unchanged - the topic of passion and the theme of death. The passion of love, the passion of power, the passion of art, the passion of pride, the passion of faith - and death, plunging people, cities and empires - here, in essence, what was interested in Bunin...