Ivan Bunin

Light Breathing

Título original: Лёгкое дыхание

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Año
1916
Capítulos
1

Sobre la obra

The story opens in a cemetery, at a cross bearing the photograph of the schoolgirl Olya Meshcherskaya - beautiful, carefree and full of life. Bunin reconstructs her short story not in order but through separate episodes. A brief text about youth, beauty and what remains after a person is gone.

Índice

  1. Capítulo 1

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Historia de la obra

Bunin wrote the story in 1916, and it was published the same year.

Contexto

The story is set in a provincial town in pre-revolutionary Russia. It is very short but dense: the order of the episodes and the recurring details matter.

Datos curiosos

  • The psychologist Lev Vygotsky analysed the story's composition in detail in his book The Psychology of Art.