The Village (Cyclopedia of Literary Places)
At a glance:
- Author: Ivan Bunin
- First Published: 1910
- Type of Work: Novel
- Type of Plot: Social criticism
- Time of Work: Early twentieth century
- Genres: Long fiction, Social realism
- Subjects: Twentieth century, Villages, Poetry or poets, Brothers, Adultery, Ambition, Cruelty, Russia or Russian people, Peasantry or peasants
- Locales: Russia
Places Discussed
Durnovka (door-NOF-kah). Fictional Russian village in which the novel is set. Its name might be translated into English literally as “Evil Town” or “Illville,” and Ivan Bunin clearly intends it to represent all that he regards as being wrong with Russian rural society in the last days of the czars. Durnovka is probably based to some degree upon the real village of Ognyovka, where Bunin himself lived. It is a generic peasant village of the period but also a symbol of all Russia, of all that Bunin perceives as being wrong with Russia at the time.
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