The novel “The Life of Arsenyev” was written by a great Russian writer in a foreign land, written in the memory of the heart about the most intimate. Few writers have managed to achieve the density of text, such visual power and spirituality that this book is distinguished by. Why today are we again offering the reader I. A. Bunin’s novel “The Life of Arsenyev”? Because this book is about the main thing - about the homeland and love. Or rather, about the triumph of love over oblivion. Today it is worth re-reading this wonderful book in order to once again comprehend the words of its author: “Life, perhaps, is given to us solely to compete with death, a person even fights with it from behind the grave: it takes away his name - he writes it on the cross, on a stone, she wants to cover his experience with darkness, and he tries to animate it in words.”