This is a list of all short stories published by Nobel Prize for Literature laureate Ivan Bunin.
[1] At eight [in the evening] Bunin started reading his finely written story about mother and son.
Mother is being starved to death, while her son, a loafer and a slacker, just drinks, then dances drunk on her grave and after that goes and lays himself upon rails and gets both his legs cut off by the train.
Were listening: Kotsyubinsky, who's got an ailing heart, Tcheremnov, a tuberculosis sufferer, Zolotaryov, a man who cannot find his own self, and me, whose brain aches, not to speak of head and bones.
Afterwards we were arguing a lot about the Russian people and its destiny...[15]