Bunin, Ivan Alekseevich
Bunin, Ivan Alekseevich ( 1870 – 1953 ),Russian prose writer and poet. The son of gentry from Voronezh in central Russia, he worked as a young man as assistant editor of a provincial newspaper. His first poem was published in 1887 , his first stories in the early 1890s, and his first collection of prose, To the Edge of the World, in 1897 . In the early years of the 20th cent. he attained great popularity. Love and rural life are prominent themes, and he was a consistent opponent of Modernism . Among his best works of the period are The Village ( 1910 ), Sukhodol ( 1911 ), and The Gentleman from San Francisco ( 1914 ). In these years he travelled widely in Europe, Asia, and Africa. Totally opposed to the October Revolution, he left Russia in 1918 , eventually reaching France and permanent exile. The Accursed Days ( 1925 ) is a diary of the post-revolutionary period, The Life of...
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