The Dark Allies: Stories and Stories

“The Dark Allies” by Ivan Bunyin is the greatest masterpiece in Russian literature of the proza about love, which the author himself considered his best and most perfect work. This is a unique, sensual and vibrant collection of stories in which the writer put the topic of passion, delicacy and rocco attraction into absolute, creating a real encyclopedia of the human heart. The book contains stories of love in all its manifestations — from the last year's explosion on the Volga river to the deep, passed through decades of feeling. The collection opens the same name story **"Dark Allies"** - a gorgeous meeting of the elderly general and his first love, a simple farmers who became the owner of a permanent yard. On the pages of the book are developing tragic and beautiful stories: a condemned novel in the “Pure Monday”**, questioned by the sun and fatality of the “Sunshine”**, a penetrating drama in the “Caucasian”** and a tremendous sadness in the “Russia”**. For Bunyin, love is always the highest point of human being, but at the same time the horror, a catastrophe that rarely ends with a happy end, leaving only a sweet and painful memory. Bunyin writes incredibly juicy, plastic and cinematographic language. He virtuously translates the odors of autumn, the sharks of rain drops, the warmth of the female skin and the dark shadows of noble plantations. This collection is not just stories about relationships, it is an enchanting hymn of glowing beauty, youth and the only explosion of feelings for which it is worth living. ** About what the book in three words:** Passion, Memory, Tragedy. To all the lovers of the perfect Russian slogan, the deep psychological prose and those who want to feel the whole palette of the strongest, beautiful and fatal love in world literature.