Arsenyev’s life

Happy childhood in the old estate. A painful adolescence poisoned by the state learning in the provincial gymnasium. The wanderings of a young man who already realized his poetic gift, by cities and towns of the endless Russian Empire. First work. The first big love, the first gap ... and the language is an incomparable Bunin language, which makes the reader not only as if in reality see what is happening with the hero, but also literally hear every sound described by the writer, feel every taste and smell.
Work on the work It went slowly and difficult, from 1927 to 1933, however, the success of Arsenyev’s life, first in the Russian abroad, and then translated into other languages, surpassed all expectations and became one of the main reasons for the award of the Nobel Prize Bunin.
The collection also includes a cycle of stories "Shadow of the Bird"