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The Elagin Affair. And Other Stories.

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Description for The Elagin Affair. And Other Stories. Hardcover. Num Pages: 270 pages. BIC Classification: DQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 222 x 160 x 26. Weight in Grams: 488.
Graham Hettlinger's brilliant translations of Bunin's stories in Sunstroke (2002) were widely acclaimed. In The Elagin Affair, Mr. Hettlinger continues to acquaint English-language readers with a Bunin they may not have appreciated. Bunin's sensual, elaborate, and highly rhythmic prose has proven deeply resistant to earlier translations. In these new stories, Mr. Hettlinger captures both the music and the grace, as well as the literal meaning, of Bunin's renowned prose. The Elagin Affair contains three of the author's greatest novellas, the title piece, "Mitya's Love," and "Sukhodol" as well as a broad range of stories written between 1900 and 1940 and centered on themes of love, loss, and the Russian landscape, including several of Bunin's most haunting stories from his final collection, Dark Avenues. Praise for Sunstroke, Graham Hettlinger's first translations of Ivan Bunin: "Bunin is, unaccountably, the least translated of the great Russian writers (and his best work ranks with that of Turgenev and Chekhov). This splendid volume takes an important step toward righting a long-standing wrong."—Kirkus Reviews "Graham Hettlinger's new translation...gives us a Bunin startling in his vividness, sensuality, and restraint."—Virginia Quarterly Review "Vibrant...a fine introduction to Bunin's work and a reminder of its importance."—New York Sun

Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
Ivan R Dee, Inc United States
Number of pages
270
Condition
New
Number of Pages
270
Place of Publication
Chicago, United States
ISBN
9781566636414
SKU
V9781566636414
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About Unknown
Born in 1870, Ivan Bunin fled Russia soon after the Bolshevik Revolution to spend the remainder of his life in France. A critically acclaimed poet and translator as well as prose writer, he received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1933. Today he remains one of Russia's most cherished authors. Graham Hettlinger lives in Bethesda, Maryland.

Reviews for The Elagin Affair. And Other Stories.
Hettlinger's English translations of Bunin's stories contain the power of the original.
William L. Morris
The Buffalo News
This volume is a gift.... Simply superb - preserving the beauty and power of Bunin's prose.
Russian Life
The closest approximation to Bunin's original Russian....a valuable new resource for both teachers and students of Russian literature.
Slavic and East European Journal
“Cascading beauty and psychological luminance.... Bunin writes with shrewd intensity.”
Donna Seaman
Booklist
A worthy addition to the archive of great Russian writers of the 19th and 20th centuries.
Kirkus
Hettlinger has rescued from antiquated and clumsy English…the works of Ivan Bunin.
Thomas Gaiton Marullo
Moscow Times
Bunin’s real talent is for portraying the stunning blunt force of desire, in bracingly old-fashioned stories about people struck senseless by passion.
Gregory Cowles
The New York Times
Rich and wonderfully layered.... Even better than Bunin’s most famous story ‘The Gentleman from San Francisco.'
John Casey
Virginia Quarterly Review
Hettlinger succeeds in...bringing out elements previous translators have not been able to capture.
Diane C. Donovan, editor, Midwest Book Review
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