The story of "Yama", AI Kuprin. Summary ("Pit" by chapters)

This story for six years, wrote Alexander Kuprin. The summary of the "Pit" can be quite poor. In spite of the slippery subjects, this work contains a lot of touching details, nice sketches and important details. The author found this topic long before the beginning of the work and for two years thought over it carefully. The theme of corrupt love has never been revealed by Russian writers as deeply as Kuprin did. The summary of "Pit" has in the iconic events and the main turns of the plot, but even through them you can see how chaste this chastity is written with chastity and with what love for mankind.

Composition

The story consists of three unequal parts. The first, where the reader gets acquainted with the characters, has twelve chapters. Already here it becomes clear that there will not be a single plotline here, so diverse content is submitted. Kuprin "Yama" is an absolutely artistic work, despite the publicistic positioning: the absence of the main character, the chronicle of the pictures of the chosen layer of the social environment, the observance of the details and the seeming descriptiveness.

The second part is more massive, and it's not accidental. In seventeen chapters the conflicts are ripening, the exits are being sought, the culmination of hopelessness is brewing. Likhonin and Platonov continue to polemicize about the reasons for the viability of such a social ulcer as prostitution. Subtle nuances of the master of Russian prose can not reveal in the story "Yama" a short summary. The fate of Lyuba, like a guinea pig on medical experiments, an example: how can this be in brief?

Content

Through the narrative descriptiveness, through all the not too seemingly related episodes, the author's philosophical conception is passing. A small man can not defeat social evil, because he himself is an episode in this endless world. That is why he named his work Kuprin "Yama". The brief content of the story - the tragedy in the lives of women living in a double-edged establishment, which for the most part resulted in a bitter fate - every woman has her own. In the third part there are only nine chapters, during which the action does not collapse, but develops quickly, in order to place the points in the last chapter at the end of each tragedy.

Before we begin to disassemble Kuprin's story "Yama", a brief summary of the chapters, one should note the story lines between the chapters and the parts. One of the main ones is the experiment of the student Likhonin with Anyone. The reader will have to decide whether he acted out of true love and Christian compassion, or just curiosity pushed him to the role of the ruler of fate. Throughout the second part of the story, the history of these relations is considered, not letting other characters out of sight.

The form

This novel Kuprin provided many features of the novella, especially the last two parts, inserting episodes other than the plot (trader Horizon, singer Rovinskaya and lawyer Ryazanov). The naturalistic nature of such genres, very fashionable only half a century before Kuprin's writing this story, has here all the signs of high artistic quality, especially in this respect the first part. The main thing for the reader is the author's approach to the topic: honest, not indifferent. Deeply sympathetic, revealing the positions of this artist-humanist, who raised the "base" to an unthinkable height, that's how the author himself showed himself and his story - Kuprin, "Yama".

The summary of the reviews was, of course, very different. People do not like to look at themselves from the side of objectivity, and those who are "not in the subject", that is - outsiders, usually do not go into such a medium, disdain. Yes, those social problems that are raised in the story, of course, are impartial. However, the power of art is praised here by Kuprin, and public viciousness is flaunted, and it is conceived about a new system of education and upbringing that eradicates the existing ignorance. Here, and dreams of a revolution, and the strength of the Russian character, and the eternal theme of the isolation of the intelligentsia from the people - all this Kuprin. "Pit". A summary can hardly accommodate this immensity.

Images

Inhabitants of the Anna Markovny's establishment come off the pages, as if alive, Krupin characterized them so artistically and brightly. Here a gallery of different types: meek and quiet Manya Little; If sober, in all miserable Pasha; Desperately in love with thief Tamara; Immersed in another book Zhenya. Portraits are so colorful, so static. Only Zhenya and Lyuba have a steeply developing line in the narrative, the rest are a swamp. This is not due to the fact that Kuprin could not twist everything in the story. It just would not fit the truth of life. The whole life of these women is not quite human, they live on the level of instincts. That is why the writer Kuprin - "Yama" called it his work.

The summary of the chapters does not allow enough to say enough about other seemingly minor characters, such as the housekeeper Elza Eduardovna, hostess Anna Markovna, her henpecked husband Isai Savvich. But Kuprin wrote these images absolutely masterfully accurately. And the Platonov reporter, whose mouth speaks the author himself - is also an image worthy of deep disclosure. Spiritual poverty of the society will also remain behind the scenes, if we select a short content in the story "Yama".

Institution

Anna Markovna has an institution not from the chic, but also from the last: a soldier, thieves and other "golden company" come here for a half-ruble. However, customs and lifestyle are almost the same everywhere. The difference in payment. The action begins with the fact that late at night Anna Markovna gathered guests: the reporter of Platonov and privat-docent Yarchenko. Guests continue the conversation started on the way, although the girls already expect them.

Platonov is his own person here, but he has never entertained a single inhabitant, he has an interest almost professional - to understand this small and stuffy world from within. The whole horror is that society does not perceive this as horror: everyday life of petty bourgeois, and only. Here, contrasts such as piety and crime coexist. Bouncer Simeon is religious to the extreme, which does not prevent him from hitting and robbing the girls. The housekeeper is the last hyena with her powerless subordinates, but she loves her daughter madly, she is kind and generous with her.

Zhenya

A girl appears. Which both customers and friends in the craft like and respect - it is beautiful, mocking, bold and independent, as far as it is possible. This is Zhenya. She worries that the girl Pasha on the brink, because already more than ten customers have passed through her.

Zhenya says that as soon as Pasha fainter and hysterical, the mistress again sends her to the guests, because Pasha is in demand (even in an easy degree of oligophrenia distinguishes the sick with indomitable sexuality, with the girl that case).

Lichonin

Platonov forked out, which gives Pasha a break. Students go to the numbering with the ladies, and Lichonin (anarchist) and Platonov continue the conversation about the fact that such a social evil is indestructible. The latter tells a lot about the local girls, and Lichonin sympathizes. It's a man of action. He decides to save at least one girl from here.

Platonov dissuades, because I am sure that soon the girl will come back with an even greater emotional wound. Zhenya agrees with Platonov. But Lichonin did not calm down: he asked Lyuba whether she would like to leave from here with him and open, for example, her dining room. Lichonin pays for her daily allowance and the next day requires Anna Markovna Lyubin passport in exchange for a yellow ticket.

A responsibility

Student Lichonin did not expect that the hardships for the liberation of Luba would cost him so much. His friends, however, agreed to help him in the adaptation of the girl: Lichonin himself undertook to teach her history, geography and arithmetic, take her to the theater, to exhibitions and lectures, Nejeradze teaches her music and reads the poem Rustaveli, Simanovsky - physics, chemistry and history of culture. The results are very modest, although the means and time are overwhelming. In addition, Anna Markovna literally robbed Lichonin before returning him Lubin's passport.

Students try to treat Lyuba as a sister, but she does not understand, she considers disrespect, ceases to feel desirable, beautiful and feminine. She refuses all claims, because she is attached to Likhonin, but her love strains that. He already dreams of catching one of his friends with Anybody to have a reason to leave. The burden turns out to be beyond his power. And so, as Platonov and Zhenya had predicted, Luba returned back.

Rovinskaya

The famous singer Rovinskaya, a beautiful and talented woman, in company with friends, among whom Baroness Tefting, Chaplinsky and Rozanov, misses, travels around the city's evil places. A few eloquently described institutions clearly show that the institution of Anna Markovna - not the only "pit" in the city.

The summary of the scene in the brothel with the German women: prostitutes do not even understand that they live an indecent life. They do not see sin in their occupation, because permanent lovers, like these dirty Russians in neighboring institutions, they do not have, and what they earn, they put in a bank for a future decent life. It's just a job they have. Business, nothing personal.

The power of art

Anna Markovna was not without a scandal, but the situation is much warmer, we can say - sincere. The ladies first quarreled, and Tamara understood the French speech of the Baroness and answered in a pure Parisian dialect that, yes, yes, we really did know - in Kharkov, where you were also a chorus like me, but were not a baroness. It was her, the future Baroness, who was in the choir one of the lyrical tenors ...

But Tamara has a thief Senechka. She loves him. After the angry speeches of Tamara, Zhenya, drunk Mani Little, the situation is heating up. The ladies are going to leave, but in parting, Rovinskaya decides to sing a romance. She knows well what to take any audience. And she succeeds. Everyone is shocked and perplexed, but Zhenya falls to her knees and kisses the hands of the one she just angrily denounced. Great is the power of art. Zhenya weeps, Rovinskaya raises her and tries to kiss her. Zhenya whispers something to her, and Rovinskaya says that it's nothing, you need to be treated for a few months, and everything will pass.

Revolt

Zhenya confesses to Tamara that she is infected with syphilis, but hides it from everyone, because she wants to infect more of these two-legged inhuman people. They shower the curses of their perverted customers. And then they leave everything as is, that is, Zhenya does not go to treatment. She remembers the person to whom her own mother sold her at the age of ten. Zoya remembers the teacher, who promised to drive her out of school if she does not listen.

And then Lyuba comes back. But the housekeeper does not want to let her in, swears and fights. Zhenya rushes into the fray for a friend. From the neighboring rooms, other girls run out with screams, hysterics reign in the house. After a while, Simeon comes with friends and influences the situation physically. Girls calm down.

Repentance

To the Wife comes the Cadet Gladishev, only to her. But today she does not hurry to caress the boy, she confesses that she is sick, and says that the other will not spare him, because all prostitutes hate their clients and never regret anyone. She says goodbye to the boy forever and goes to the port to Platonov in the morning to warn him that his acquaintances are infected: Ramses, who shot himself when he learned of a shameful illness, and blamed himself only because he took a woman without love, and Sabashnikov .

Zhenya repents, she no longer dreams of infecting more of these terrible males, because she understands that they are also people, each with their own sorrows and problems. Platonov can not comfort the girl. And on the third day, Zhenya was found hanged. Everything moves to the denouement: the most piercing moment of the story was the episode of Jeni's repentance. This for his story chose Kuprin's summary. "Yama" as such is curtailed, everything is in decline. The housekeeper bought Anna's place from Anna Markovna, and now she can not do anything with the events that happen, which do not just cast a shadow on the institution, they envelop him with a bad name.

Tamara and the rest

The girl was offered to become an assistant to the new mistress, with the condition that her warm friend Senechka abandoned the house. Tamara is looking for Rezanov and Rovinskaya, who help to bury Zhenya in the Orthodox rite, despite the fact that she is a suicide. Following Zhenya, Pasha dies, which exhausted the exhausting work into a final dementia. She is taken to a madhouse where she dies almost immediately. Tamara is also not so simple. She earns the trust of a notary and mixes him with sleeping pills into a drink. Then he lets in the apartment a nice friend Senechka, who opens the safe. Senechka is arrested in a year, and he gives the police Tamara.

Vira dies absurdly: her lover, the military man, committed embezzlement of the treasury and decides to shoot himself. Faith is ready to share his fate. They nicely say goodbye to life with a luxurious feast, after which the man resolutely kills Vera, and himself - no, he does not work. In the fight, Manya the Little One perishes. And the whole end comes to the institution, when two offended fighters come to the rescue soldiers - a whole hundred. Thus ended his story Kuprin. The summary of "Pit" is also quite interesting, although, of course, there are not enough talented details captured by the writer.