In one work by this man, a retired army officer claims that "everything passes, everything is forgotten," to which an innkeeper counters that not everything is forgotten.
In one work by this man, a retired army officer claims that "everything passes, everything is forgotten," to which an innkeeper counters that not everything is forgotten. In addition to that work about the lost love between Nikolai and Nadezhda, he wrote a novel which sees Rodka poisoned by his wife, the Bride, who eventually becomes Kuzma's housekeeper and is seduced by Tikhon. This author of "The Dark Avenues" and the autobiographical The Life of Arseniev, also wrote "The Elaghin Affair" and the novel The Village. In another of his works, a soda-water crate is used as a makeshift coffin, and after becoming bored of looking at churches, the title millionaire dies of a heart attack on Capri. For 10 points, identify this first Russian winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature, the author of "The Gentleman from San Francisco".
In one work by this man, a retired army officer claims that "everything passes, everything is forgotten," to which an innkeeper counters that not everything is forgotten.
Ivan Alekseyevich Bunin