The Village by Ivan Bunin (Translated by Galya and Hugh Aplin)
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Overview: A new translation of Nobel Prize–winner Ivan Bunin’s first novel set during the 1905 Revolution in southwest Russia.
This is a bleak and uncompromising portrayal of the lives of two peasant brothers, “characters sunk so far below the average of intelligence as to be scarcely human.” With brutal honesty it reveals the pettiness, violence, and ignorance of rural farm life. At once nostalgic for a bygone, more innocent age and foreshadowing the turbulences of the 20th century, this wrenching novel is a triumph of bitter realism.
The novel’s title had to do with an idea formulated by one of its characters, a local self-styled eccentric named Balashkin. According to the latter, Russia as a whole amounts to one huge Village and “the fate of its wild and poor peasantry is the fate of the country as such.” “My novel depicts the life of rural Russia; along with one particular village it is concerned with life of Russia as a whole”, Bunin told Odessky Listok newspaper in 1910.
Genre: Fiction > General Fiction/Classics > Cultural > Russia > 20th Century
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