The Perception of I.A. Bunin’s Work in Vietnam

Ivan Bunin was the first Russian writer, who won the Nobel Prize in literature. However, Vietnamese readers knew him rather late: it was in 1987 that stories by the famous master of artistic language were translated into Vietnamese for the first time. So, as compared with other Russian classics, the history of perception of Bunin's work in Vietnam is not very long. His works are still little-known to a broad readership, but at the same time, the writer managed to gain recognition by “elitist” Vietnamese reader. This article analyses the features of perception of Ivan Bunin’s work (on the whole, his stories) in the “elitist” Vietnamese readership, from the time of publication of his stories in Vietnamese up to 2019. The basis of the analyses are articles and researches on the writer’s work, including senior theses and master’s theses by graduates of higher education institutes, as well as Bunin’s works’ translations into Vietnamese.