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Ivan Bunin

Light Breathing

Original title: Лёгкое дыхание

On youth, lightness and how fragile happiness is.

Text in the original /Interface:

The light breathing dissolved into the world.

The story opens in a cemetery, at a cross bearing the photograph of the schoolgirl Olya Meshcherskaya - beautiful, carefree and full of life. Bunin reconstructs her short story not in order but through separate episodes. A brief text about youth, beauty and what remains after a person is gone.

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