ivan bunin writes flash

reading: Tyomnye Allei (The Dark Avenues / Shadowed Pathways, according to another translation ) by Ivan Bunin (1870-1953). flash fiction at its best, and i had no idea.

Bunin bits:

• About the Soviet government he wrote: "What a disgusting gallery of convicts!"

• He was the first Russian to win the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1933.

• Bunin was a strong opponent of the Nazis and reportedly sheltered a Jew in his house in Grasse throughout the occupation.

• His tempestous private life in emigration is the subject of the internationally acclaimed Russian movie, The Diary of His Wife (2000).