"Sunstroke": a short summary. "Sunstroke" - I. Bunin's story about incredible love

What is Bunin's story "Sunstroke"? Of course, about love, otherwise it can not be. Or rather, not about love - whole, clear and transparent, but about the infinite set of its facets and shades. Looking through them, you clearly feel how immense and unquenchable are human desires and feelings. These depths frighten and inspire. Here, the transience, swiftness and charm of every moment are acutely felt. Here they fall and drown - there can not be a happy ending a priori. But at the same time, there is an indispensable ascent to that unattainable true love. So, we present to your attention the story "Sunstroke". A summary of it will be set forth below.

Unexpected acquaintance

Summer. On one of the Volga steamers, he and she meet. This is how Bunin's unusual story, "The Sunny Impact," begins. She is a young, charming little woman in a light "canvas" dress. He is a lieutenant: young, light and carefree. After a month of lying under the hot sun, Anapa returns home to her husband and her three-year-old daughter. He sails on the same boat. Three hours ago, each of them lived his simple life, not suspecting the existence of each other. And suddenly…

After lunch in the "bright and hotly lit dining room" they go out onto the deck. Ahead - impenetrable darkness and lights. A strong, soft wind is constantly beating in the face. The ship, describing a wide arc, approaches the pier. Suddenly, he takes her hand, brings it to his lips and whispers that he must go. What for? Where? He is silent. It is clear without words: they are on the threshold of a risky, crazy and at the same time so seductive enterprise that there is simply no power to give up and leave. And they go ... Does this concise come to this? "Sunstroke" is still full of events.

Hotel

A minute later, having collected the necessary, passed the "sleeping room", stepped on the deep sand and silently sat down to the cabman. Infinite, soft from the dust road. We passed the square, some places of interest and stopped near the illuminated entrance of the district hotel. They climbed the old wooden stairs and found themselves in a large, but terribly stuffy, hotly hot day after sun. Around clean, neat, on the windows - white curtains dropped. As soon as they crossed the threshold, and behind them the door closed, the lieutenant hurried to her, and both of them, not remembering themselves, gasped in the kiss. Until the end of their days they will remember this moment. Never before and after anything like this have not experienced in his life, neither he nor she ...

Eclipse or sunstroke?

Ten o'clock in the morning. Outside the window is sunny, hot and sure, as happens only in the summer, a happy day. Slept a little, but she, washed and dressed in a second, was shining with the freshness of a seventeen-year-old girl. Was she embarrassed? If so, very little. From it emanated the same simplicity, merriment and already discernment. The lieutenant offered to go on together, but she refused, otherwise everything will be spoiled. Having nothing like what happened to her, there was not, and there will be no more. Maybe it was an eclipse, or maybe something happened with them, similar to a "sunny blow".

He surprisingly easily agreed with her. Happy and carefree brought her to the pier, just to the very departure of the pink steamer. In the same mood he returned to the hotel. However, something has already changed. The room still could smell her - it smelled of her expensive cologne. On the tray was still her cup of unapproved coffee. The bed was not cleaned yet, and the screen was still pushed aside. All to the last centimeter was full of it - and empty. How so? The lieutenant's heart sank. What a strange road adventure! After all, nothing special in this, in fact, ridiculous woman, or in this fleeting meeting - all this is not the first time, and yet something is wrong ... "Indeed, just some kind of sunstroke!" Story And A. Bunin does not end there.

New feelings

What else will tell us the summary? "Sunstroke", the story of IA Bunin, further narrates about the new feelings of the protagonist. Memory of the smell of her tan, her linen dress; Memory of the living, so happy and at the same time simple sound of her voice; The memory of the recent experienced pleasures with all its sensuality and feminine seductiveness - it was still alive in it immensely, but it has already become secondary. In the first place came a different feeling, hitherto unknown to him, which he had never even suspected, on the eve of this amusing acquaintance for one night. He could not explain what kind of feeling he was. Memories became an insoluble torment, and all further life, whether in this forgotten town of God, or elsewhere, seemed now empty and meaningless. Horror and despair seized him.

It was necessary to do something urgently, to be saved from obsession, not to look ridiculous. He went into the city, walked through the bazaar. Soon he returned to the hotel, went into the dining room - big, empty, cool, and gulped down two or three glasses of vodka. Everything was good, everything felt immeasurable joy and happiness in everyone, and in this summer heat, and in this complex mixture of market odors, and his heart was unbearably aching and torn to pieces. He needs her, and only she, at least for one day. For what? To tell her to tell her everything that he has in his heart - about his enthusiastic love for her. And again the question: "Why, if nothing can be changed in his or her life?" He could not explain this feeling. He knew one thing - it's more important than life itself.

Telegram

Suddenly an unexpected thought came to him - to send her an urgent telegram with one single phrase, that his whole life now belongs only to her. This will not at all help him get rid of the torment of sudden, unexpected love, but will definitely ease his suffering. The lieutenant rushed headlong to the old house, where there was post and telegraph, but stopped halfway in horror-he does not know her name or surname! Not once he asked her, and at dinner, and at the hotel, but every time she laughed, calling herself Marya Marevna, then an overseas princess ... An amazing woman!

Summary: "The Sunny Impact", IA Bunin - Conclusion

Where should he go now? What to do? He returned to the hotel tired and shattered. The room has already been cleaned. There was not a single trace of her - only a hairpin on the night table. The day of yesterday and this morning seemed like affairs of a long time ago ... This concludes our brief summary. "Sunstroke" - one of the amazing works of I. Bunin - ends with the fact that in the soul of the lieutenant there is the same emptiness and despair. In the evening he gathered, hired a cab driver, it seems, the same one that brought them at night, and came to the pier. Over the Volga stretched "blue summer night," and the lieutenant sat on the deck, feeling old for ten years.

Once again I want to recall that the article is devoted to Ivan Bunin's story "The Sunny Impact". The content conveyed in brief can not reflect the spirit, the feelings and emotions that invisibly soar in every line, in every letter of the story, and which make you suffer immensely along with the characters. Therefore, reading the work in full is simply necessary.