one of my nephews' 'fall'. I partly borrowed his recount, which, incidentally, had nothing whatsoever tragic about it." Bitsilli, apparently was not convinced. In his April 5, 1936, letter, Bunin remarked that some people's suggestion that Mitya's Love was closer to Ivan Turgenev's prose was more realistic. As for Tolstoy's style of writing, there was "not a single note in it that would be in any way similar [to this]", he wrote. "Ethereal, light of touch, modernist and poetic," the book was as far removed from Tolstoy's prose as it could be, Bunin argued. References 1925 Russian novels Novels by Ivan Bunin