Last Love Affair (Essays by Ivan Bunin)

Author: Ivan Bunin
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Publish Date: 1997-03-01
Features: The author devoted over eight years to this collection, considering these works as his most mature in terms of artistry. On the surface, they seem unrelated, yet they share a common theme: love, life, and death. Bunin believed that love, even unrequited love, is a great happiness. He seemed to revisit old dreams and communicate with his lost world through hidden paths in his heart. Russian critics remarked that the love depicted in The Paths is merely a mask, concealing the author's profound attachment to his homeland. This attachment, Bunin believed, is most profoundly expressed in his best work, Monday of Purgatory. The Paths is both the author's tragedy and the source of his happiness.