This realist wrote about individuals driven toward death in such short stories as "Dreams of Chang," about a dog watching its master drink himself to death because of his unfaithful wife, and about doomed erotic liasons in his collection Dark Avenues.  The story "Antonov Apples" is his only work with an optimistic outlook on life, while 1910's The Village is his only novel.  For 10 points-- identify this author of "The Ge
This realist wrote about individuals driven toward death in such short stories as "Dreams of Chang," about a dog watching its master drink himself to death because of his unfaithful wife, and about doomed erotic liasons in his collection Dark Avenues.  The story "Antonov Apples" is his only work with an optimistic outlook on life, while 1910's The Village is his only novel.  For 10 points-- identify this author of "The Gentleman from San Francisco," who in 1934 became the first Russian to win a Nobel Prize in Literature.
This realist wrote about individuals driven toward death in such short stories as "Dreams of Chang," about a dog watching its master drink himself to death because of his unfaithful wife, and about doomed erotic liasons in his collection Dark Avenues.  
Ivan Bunin