Ivan Bunin’s tale “In Paris” portrays the fate of two Russian émigrés: a former White Army general and a young woman compelled to work as a waitress. Their late-found love brings them brief happiness, yet it is inevitably doomed to a tragic end.

Bunin masterfully conveys the atmosphere of the Parisian émigré community, the sense of loneliness in exile, and the longing for a lost homeland. The work’s psychological depth and attention to detail make it a symbolic testimony to the destiny of an entire generation.