In France Bunin published many of his pre-revolutionary works and collections of original novellas, regularly contributing to the Russian emigre press. According to Vera Muromtseva, her husband often complained of his inability to get used to life in the new world. He said he belonged to "the old world, that of Goncharov and Tolstoy, of Moscow and Saint Petersburg, where his muse had been lost, never to be found again." Yet his new prose was marked with obvious artistic progress: "Mitya's Love" ("Митина любовь", 1924), "Sunstroke" ("Солнечный удаp", 1925), "Cornet Yelagin's Case" ("Дело коpнета Елагина", 1925) and especially "The Life of Arseniev" ("Жизнь Аpсеньева", written in 1927–1929, published in 1930–1933) were praised by critics as bringing Russian literature to new heights. Konstantin Paustovsky called "The Life of Arseniev" an apex of the whole of Russian prose and "one of the most striking phenomena in the world of literature."