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The Village (Bunin novel)

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The Village (???????, Der?vnya) is a short novel by a Nobel Prize-winning Russian author Ivan Bunin written in 1909 and first published in Sovremenny Mir journal (St.-P., ##3, 10?11, 1910) under the title Novelet (???????). The Village caused much controversy at the time; it was highly praised among others by Maxim Gorky (who from then on regarded the author the major figure in Russian literature) and is now generally regarded as Bunin's first masterpiece. Composed of brief episodes in the Russian provinces at the time of the Revolution of 1905 and set in the author's birthplace, it told the story of the two peasant brothers, one a brute drunk, the other a gentler, more sympathetic character. Bunin's realistic portrayal of village life jarred with the idealized picture of 'unspoiled' peasants which was common in the mainstream Russian literature, and offended many with characters some of which "sunk so far below the average of intelligence as to be scarcely human".

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