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KUPRIN, Aleksandr Ivanovich (1870-1938). Elan. Raz

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Belgrade: [M. Pavlenko i I. Papova], 1929 [1928]. 161 pp. 8vo (225 x 150 mm). Rebound in flowered cloth with the original wrappers mounted within. Condition: repairs to mounted endpages; mounted wrapper thumbsoiled. Provenance: Yakov Moiseevich Tsvibak. One of 2000 copies. presentation copy, warmly inscrbed. Kuprin was an enormously popular Russian writer of action and adventure stories. His admirers included Bunin, Chekhov and Gorky. Tolstoy reportedly wept when reading one of his stories and Vladimir Nabokov called him the Russian Kipling. Plagued by alcoholism, Kuprin was not afraid to write about the seamier side of contemporary life. He left Russia after the Bloshevik Revolution and settled in Paris where he lived and worked in relative obsurity. Homesick, he finally returned to Moscow in 1937 at the height of the Great Purge.

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