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...WELL OF DAYS-Ivan Bunin- Knopf ($2.50). Three months ago few U. S. readers had ever heard of Ivan Alexeyevich Bunin. Now, by grace of his recently-won Nobel Prize (TIME, Nov. 20), the U. S. public is aware of his name if not of his books. To take advantage of his sudden fame, Publisher Knopf rushed two Bunin reprints (The Gentleman from San Francisco, The Village) through the press, last fortnight brought out his latest (translated) novel, The Well of Days. Readers of this grave, sensitive but unmodern autobiographical novel may now see what Author Bunin is about, will...
...Gentleman from San Francisco, by Ivan Bunin...
Ivan Alexeyevich Bunin, 1933 Nobel Prize winner in Literature, is a 63-year-old White Russian, self-exiled from Russia 16 years ago, now living with his 20-year-old adopted daughter in a modest villa at Grasse, France. Writer of the old school, called "the last heir to the Russian realist tradition of the 19th Century," Bunin has long had a big reputation in Russia, where he won the Pushkin prize for poetry (1890), was an honorary member (with Maxim Gorki and the late great Anton Chekhov) of the exclusive Academy of St. Petersburg. Enthusiastic Russians rank Bunin with...
Alone among Russian émigré writers, who have generally lost both prestige and potency after being cut off from their native country, Author Bunin has tuned his exile's harp with increasing skill, today stands head & shoulders above other White Russian writers. Unlike the Pulitzer, the Nobel Prize is never awarded for any particular book; like his predecessors, Bunin is being honored for cumulative excellence. His best-known book is the volume of short stories, The Gentleman from San Francisco, in which the title-story is a grotesque fantasy of a rich American who voyages to Europe...
Said happy Ivan Alexeyevich Bunin: "I am thrilled at the prospect of going to Stockholm on Dec. 11 to receive the honor at the hands of King Gustaf. I certainly can use the money...