Lot Essay
Bunin left Russia in 1920 and was the first Russian to receive the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1933.
Details
IVAN ALEKSEEVICH BUNIN (1870-1953)
Typed manuscript in Russian, on squared paper, with corrected galley proofs, signed with autograph annotations, 1926, 3pp, 4°, entitled 'Strashnyi rasskaz (A Terrible Story)', an impressionistic tale of two strangers in the grounds of a big house, the terrible, motiveless murder of a lonely old woman in the house and a final reflection on the most terrible thing of all - man and his soul (creased on folds, some thumb soiling and fading).
Typed manuscript in Russian, on squared paper, with corrected galley proofs, signed with autograph annotations, 1926, 3pp, 4°, entitled 'Strashnyi rasskaz (A Terrible Story)', an impressionistic tale of two strangers in the grounds of a big house, the terrible, motiveless murder of a lonely old woman in the house and a final reflection on the most terrible thing of all - man and his soul (creased on folds, some thumb soiling and fading).
Literature
First published in the Parisian magazine Zveno (Link), no.156, 5 February 1926.