For 10 points, name this author of "The Gentleman from San Francisco".
In one novella by this author, Sonka mocks the title character, whom she has a crush on, even as she thinks he is sleeping with Parasha, and the unnamed steward assures that title character his books will wait for him, as he tries to induce him to sleep with Alyonka. In another novella by this author, which features several repetitions of the phrase "Quand meme pour toujours", the title character and his lover have wedding rings inscribed with the date March 26 to commemorate the first time they sleep together. In addition to writing novellas about a youth obsessed with and abandoned by the actress Katya, Mitya's Love and about a young hussar who murders his actress lover Sovnoskaya, The Elagin Affair, this author wrote a short story in which the devil watches the passage of a ship through the Strait of Gibraltar as it brings back the body of the title character, who is carried in a soda-water box to a steamer after he dies in a hotel on Capri. For 10 points, name this author of "The Gentleman from San Francisco". 
In one novella by this author, Sonka mocks the title character, whom she has a crush on, even as she thinks he is sleeping with Parasha, and the unnamed steward assures that title character his books will wait for him, as he tries to induce him to sleep with Alyonka.
Ivan Alekseyevich Bunin 