Alamedas oscuras

Considered by the author to be his best work, the Dark Alamedas cycle constitutes a milestone in 20th-century Russian prose: the last exponent of the long 19th-century literary tradition initiated by Pushkin -a farewell to that patriarchal Russia of nobles and peasants, of serfs and landowners , farms, carts, stately homes and religious celebrations-, is also an exploration, a search for the appropriate language and style to narrate the intimacy of love relationships. Iván Bunin, one of the most exquisite writers of his land, condenses in these stories all his vital and artistic experience and reaches heights of beauty, sensitivity and conciseness.