Last Love Affair: Essays by Ivan Bunin

Author: Ivan Bunin (Russia)
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Publish Date: 1997-03-01
Features: The author devoted over 8 years to this collection, considering these works as artistically mature. On the surface, they seem unrelated, but 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 soul. 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 best expressed in his best work, Monday of Purgatory. The Paths is both the author's tragedy and the source of his happiness.