The Elagin Affair: And Other Stories - Hardcover

Hettlinger's English translations of Bunin's stories contain the power of the original. -- William L. Morris * The Buffalo News * This volume is a gift.... Simply superb - preserving the beauty and power of Bunin's prose. * Russian Life * The closest approximation to Bunin's original Russian....a valuable new resource for both teachers and students of Russian literature. * Slavic and East European Journal * "Cascading beauty and psychological luminance.... Bunin writes with shrewd intensity." -- Donna Seaman * Booklist * A worthy addition to the archive of great Russian writers of the 19th and 20th centuries. * Kirkus * Hettlinger has rescued from antiquated and clumsy English...the works of Ivan Bunin. -- Thomas Gaiton Marullo * Moscow Times * Bunin's real talent is for portraying the stunning blunt force of desire, in bracingly old-fashioned stories about people struck senseless by passion. -- Gregory Cowles * The New York Times * Rich and wonderfully layered.... Even better than Bunin's most famous story `The Gentleman from San Francisco.' -- John Casey * Virginia Quarterly Review * Hettlinger succeeds in...bringing out elements previous translators have not been able to capture. -- Diane C. Donovan, editor, Midwest Book Review * Bookwatch *

Graham Hettlinger's brilliant translations of Bunin's stories in Sunstroke (2002) were widely acclaimed. In The Elagin Affair, Mr. Hettlinger continues to acquaint English-language readers with a Bunin they may not have appreciated. The Elagin Affair contains two of the author's greatest novellas, the title piece and "Mitya's Love," as well as a broad range of stories written between 1900 and 1940 and centered on themes of love, loss, and the Russian landscape, including several of Bunin's most haunting stories from his final collection, Dark Avenues.