The Village (Summarized Edition)

The Village (1910) is Bunin's unsparing panorama of provincial Russia, following the peasant brothers Tikhon and Kuzma through labor, drink, violence, and thwarted hope while the 1905 unrest flickers at the margins. In chiselled, economical prose that blends late-Realist precision with Naturalist determinism, Bunin builds an episodic social anatomy; landscapes, luminous yet indifferent, counterpoi...