About the book: year / Ivan Bunin (1870–1953) - the first Russian Nobel Prize laureate (1933), an outstanding master of words, an impeccable stylist. The writer is characterized by an understanding of love as a fatal force, love-passion. Lovers have only moments. For I. Bunin, a true feeling is always an unattainable peak that a person strives for, but never achieves forever, until the end of his days. This is the tragedy of human existence, doomed not to fulfill its main purpose - to love..