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 migr period...
So Arsenyev's love died, remaining at the same time forever in him, with him - in the form of Memory, a non-depleting source of all creativity. And the final note on the last page of Arsenyev's Life is the voice of the writer, echoing the words written about fifty years ago in...