Ivan Bunin was the first Russian writer of the twentieth century to be award the Nobel Prize in literature. Like many other Russian writers, he emigrated after the Revolution and never returned to his homeland; The Life of Arseniev is the major work of his emigre period.In ways similar to Nabokov's Speak, Memory, Bunin's novel powerfully evokes the atmosphere of Russia in the decades before the Revolution and illuminates those Russian literary and cultural traditions eradicated in the Soviet era. This first full English-language edition updates earlier translations, taking as its source the version Bunin revised in 1952, and including an introduction and annotations by Andrew Baruch Wachtel.
- ISBN10 081011187X
- ISBN13 9780810111875
- Publish Date 26 October 1994
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 10 February 2015
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Northwestern University Press
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 254
- Language English