The Life of Arseniev
First edition | |
| Author | Ivan Bunin |
|---|---|
| Language | Russian |
| Genre | autobiographical novel |
| Publisher | Sovremennye zapiski |
Publication date | 1930 |
| Publication place | France / United States |
Published in English | 1933 |
The Life of Arseniev: Youth (Russian: Жизнь Арсеньева. Юность) is an autobiographical novel by Nobel Prize-winning Russian author Ivan Bunin seen by many as his most important work written in emigration. It is Bunin's only full-length novel.
The novel was written and published in parts in the course of the 12 years, in 1927-1939, in France. In 1952 the New-York-based Chekhov Publishers released the first complete edition of the novel.