The Gentleman from San Francisco and Other Stories

Translated by D.H. Lawrence S.S. Koteliansky and Leonard Woolf Ivan Alekseyevich Bunin (1870-1953) was the first Russian author to receive the Nobel Prize for literature. The theme of the title story which describes the death of a wealthy American in the island of Capri has distinct links with the more famous treatment of this subject - Death in Venice by Thomas Mann. Bunin wrote: The idea of a story [called initially] 'Death on Capri' came to me and in four days I finished the piece. Everything else San Francisco included was pure fantasy. Nothing in it was real apart from the fact that once a certain American had really died after dinner in Quisisana hotel. The collection consists of the following stories: The Gentleman from San Francisco Gentle Breathing Kasimir Stanislavovitch Son