About this audiobook
The "God's Tree" of Ivan Bunyin is the last lifelong collection of stories of the great Russian writer and the first Nobel Prize laureate in literature. The book released in Paris became a quintessence of the Bunyin prose: it is a surprisingly poetic, mature and prolonging farewell to the unreversibly gone, pre-revolution Russian. The collection represents a mosaic of short stories, road notes, philosophical miniatures and lyrical drawings. The title story "God's Tree" puts the tone of the whole book, addressing the image of the old peasant Jacob - the carrier of genuine popular wisdom, living in absolute harmony with nature. In other works of the collection (such as "Idol", "Tely's Head", "Snowbird", "Rose of Yerichon") Buin with a philigrate accuracy raises the paintings of the village livestock, noble plantations, the odors of flowering gardens and the frozen Russian winters. But behind this external painting is the profound tragicism of the artist, cut off from his homeland: through the crystal purity of the Bunin slug clearly sound the themes of the rapid flow of time, loneliness, inevitable death and the eternal secret of human being. In these stories there is almost no dynamic story — they are struck from the thinest sounds, semi-tones, fragrances and deep psychology, turning reading into pure aesthetic meditation. Who to read: to the appreciators of the perfect Russian language, the thick and atmospheric lyrical prose, as well as to everyone who wants to feel the stunning nostalgia of the past era through the prism of Nobel skill.
