Light Breathing

作品简介

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.

目录

1. I第1章

创作经过

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

背景

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.

趣闻

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