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...past, placed together in one compact volume, seem extremely uneven. This book contains such material as Eugene O'Neill's Desire Under the Elms, Yeats's The Land of Heart's Desire, excerpts from André Gide's Journals. It contains masterpieces like Ivan Bunin's Gentleman from San Francisco and unfamiliar stories like Roger Martin Du Card's smoldering Confidence Africaine. Examples of the work of writers unknown in the U.S. (e.g., Chilean Poetess Gabriela Mistral and Finnish Novelist Frans Eemil Sillanpää) are alone enough to make it a valuable...
...ELAGHIN AFFAIR AND OTHER STORIES-Ivan Bunin-'Knopf ($2.50). The Nobel Prize winner digs into his trunk for a new collection of short stories. Some of them go back...
...Grammar of Love" contains ten stories, eight of which had not been translated into English before. They vary greatly in subject matter and demonstrate Bunin's work at widely different times of his career. The central theme of the collection, however, is love. His treatment is realistic and the reader is impressed emotionally, psychologically, and philosophically by the power of the author to transmit these instinctive feelings and thoughts by a mere description of material things. It is by allusion and implication that these realistic descriptions become more than more enumerations and the subtle skill of Bunin in arranging...
...Bunin has attained a realism that many of his contemporaries strive to do by more circuitous means and psychological devices but his product is more natural, readable, and understanding...
GRAMMAR OF LOVE-Ivan Bunin-Smith & Haas ($2). Ten characteristic short stories by the author of The Gentleman from San Francisco and 1933 winner of the Nobel Prize...