The writer Ivan Alekseevich Bunin is a prominent representative of the literary creativity of an entire era. His merits on the literary front are appreciated not only by Russian critics, but also by the world community. Everyone knows that in 1933 Bunin received the Nobel Prize in Literature.

The difficult life of Ivan Alekseevich left its mark on his works, but in spite of everything, the theme of love runs like a red stripe through all his work.

In 1924, Bunin began to write a series of works that were very closely related to each other. These were separate stories, each of which was an independent work. These stories are united by one theme - the theme of love. Bunin combined five of his works in that cycle: “Mitya’s Love”, “Sunstroke”, “Ida”, “Mordovian Sundress”, “The Case of Cornet Elagin”. They describe five different cases of love appearing out of nowhere. That same love that strikes to the very heart, overshadowing the mind and subjugating the will.

This article will focus on the story “Sunstroke”. It was written in 1925, when the writer was in the Maritime Alps. The writer later told Galina Kuznetsova, one of his lovers, how the story originated. She, in turn, wrote it all down in her diary.

A connoisseur of human passions, a man capable of erasing all boundaries in the face of a wave of feelings, a writer who mastered words with perfect grace, inspired by a new feeling, easily and naturally expressed his thoughts as soon as any idea arose. The stimulator could be any object, any event or natural phenomenon. The main thing is not to waste the sensation received, and to fully surrender to the description, without stopping, and perhaps without completely controlling yourself.

Plot of the story

The storyline of the story is quite simple, although we should not forget that the action takes place a hundred years ago, when morals were completely different, and it was not customary to write about it openly.

On a wonderful warm night, a man and a woman meet on a ship. They are both warmed up with wine, there are magnificent views around, the mood is good and romance emanates from everywhere. They communicate, then spend the night together in a nearby hotel and leave when morning comes.

The meeting is so amazing, fleeting and unusual for both that the main characters did not even recognize each other’s names. This madness is justified by the author: “neither one nor the other has ever experienced anything like this in his entire life.”

The fleeting meeting impressed the hero so much that he could not find a place for himself after parting the next day. The lieutenant realizes that only now he understands what happiness can look like when the object of all desires is nearby. After all, for a moment, even if it was that night, he was the happiest man on earth. The tragedy of the situation was also added by the realization that most likely he would not see her again.

At the beginning of their acquaintance, the lieutenant and the stranger did not exchange any information; they did not even recognize each other’s names. As if dooming himself in advance to one and only communication. The young people secluded themselves with one single purpose. But this does not discredit them; they have a serious justification for their actions. The reader learns about this from the words of the main character. After spending the night together, she seems to conclude: “It’s as if an eclipse has come over me... Or, rather, we both got something like sunstroke...” And this sweet young woman wants to believe.

The narrator manages to dispel any illusions regarding the possible future of the wonderful couple and reports that the stranger has a family, a husband and a little daughter. And the main character, when he came to his senses, assessed the situation and decided not to lose such a beloved object of personal preference, suddenly realizes that he cannot even send a telegram to his night lover. He knows nothing about her, neither name, nor surname, nor address.

Although the author did not pay attention to a detailed description of the woman, the reader likes her. I want to believe that the mysterious stranger is beautiful and smart. And this incident should be perceived as sunstroke, nothing more.

Bunin probably created the image of a femme fatale who represented his own ideal. And although there is no detail either in appearance or in the internal filling of the heroine, we know that she has a simple and charming laugh, long hair, since she wears hairpins. The woman has a strong and elastic body, strong small hands. The fact that a subtle aroma of perfume can be felt close to her can indicate that she is well-groomed.

Semantic load

In his work, Bunin did not elaborate. There are no names or titles in the story. The reader does not know what ship the main characters were on, or in what city they stopped. Even the names of the heroes remain unknown.

Probably, the writer wanted the reader to understand that names and titles are not important when it comes to such a sublime feeling as falling in love and love. It cannot be said that the lieutenant and the married lady have a great secret love. The passion that flared up between them was most likely initially perceived by both as an affair during the trip. But something happened in the soul of the lieutenant, and now he finds no place for himself from the surging feelings.

From the story you can see that the writer himself is a personality psychologist. This is easy to track by the behavior of the main character. At first, the lieutenant parted with his stranger with such ease and even joy. However, after some time, he wonders what it is about this woman that makes him think about her every second, why now the whole wide world is not nice to him.

The writer managed to convey all the tragedy of unfulfilled or lost love.

Structure of the work

In his story, Bunin described, without affectation or embarrassment, a phenomenon that the common people call treason. But he was able to do it very subtly and beautifully, thanks to his writing talent.

In fact, the reader becomes a witness of the greatest feeling that has just been born - love. But this happens in reverse chronological order. The standard scheme: checking in, making acquaintances, walks, meetings, dinners - all this is thrown aside. Only the acquaintance of the main characters immediately leads them to the climax in the relationship between a man and a woman. And only after parting does satisfied passion suddenly give birth to love.

“The feeling of the pleasures he had just experienced was still alive in him, but now the main thing was a new feeling.”

The author conveys feelings in detail, placing emphasis on such little things as smells and sounds. For example, the story describes in detail the morning when the market square is open, with its smells and sounds. And the ringing of bells can be heard from the nearby church. It all seems happy and bright, and contributes to unprecedented romance. At the end of the work, all the same things seem unpleasant, loud and irritable to the hero. The sun no longer warms, but scorches, and you want to hide from it.

In conclusion, one sentence should be quoted:

“The dark summer dawn faded far ahead, gloomily, sleepily and multi-coloredly reflected in the river... and the lights floated and floated back, scattered in the darkness around”

This is what reveals the author’s concept of love. Bunin himself once said that there is no happiness in life, but there are some happy moments that you need to live and appreciate. After all, love can appear suddenly and disappear forever. As sad as it may be, in Bunin’s stories the characters constantly break up. Perhaps he wants to tell us that there is great meaning in separation, because of it, love remains deep in the soul and diversifies human sensitivity. And all this really looks like sunstroke.

Ivan Alekseevich Bunin

"Sunstroke"

They met in the summer, on one of the Volga ships. He is a lieutenant, She is a lovely little, tanned woman (she said she was coming from Anapa). “...I’m completely drunk,” she laughed. “Actually, I’ve gone completely crazy.” Three hours ago I didn’t even know you existed.” The lieutenant kissed her hand, and his heart sank blissfully and terribly...

The steamer approached the pier, the lieutenant muttered imploringly: “Let's get off...” And a minute later they got off, rode to the hotel on a dusty carriage, went into a large but terribly stuffy room. And as soon as the footman closed the door behind him, both of them suffocated so frantically in the kiss that they remembered this moment for many years later: neither one nor the other had ever experienced anything like this in their entire lives.

And in the morning she left, she, a little nameless woman, jokingly called herself “a beautiful stranger,” “Princess Marya Morevna.” In the morning, despite an almost sleepless night, she was as fresh as she was at seventeen, a little embarrassed, still simple, cheerful, and already reasonable: “You must stay until the next ship,” she said. “If we go together, everything will be ruined.” I give you my word of honor that I am not at all what you might think of me. Nothing even similar to what happened has ever happened to me, and there never will be again. It was as if an eclipse had come over me... Or, rather, we both got something like sunstroke...” And the lieutenant somehow easily agreed with her, took her to the pier, put her on the ship and kissed her on the deck in front of everyone.

He returned to the hotel just as easily and carefree. But something has already changed. The room seemed somehow different. It was still full of her - and empty. And the lieutenant’s heart suddenly sank with such tenderness that he hurried to light a cigarette and walked back and forth around the room several times. There was no strength to look at the unmade bed - and he covered it with a screen: “Well, that’s the end of this “road adventure”! - he thought. “And forgive me, and forever, forever... After all, I can’t, for no apparent reason, come to this city, where her husband, her three-year-old girl, and in general her whole ordinary life are!” And this thought struck him. He felt such pain and such uselessness of his entire future life without her that he was overcome by horror and despair.

“What is this with me? It seems that this is not the first time - and now... What's special about it? In fact, it looks like some kind of sunstroke! How can I spend the whole day without her in this outback?” He still remembered all of her, but now the main thing was this completely new and incomprehensible feeling, which did not exist while they were together, which he could not even imagine when starting a funny acquaintance. A feeling that there was no one to tell about now. And how to live this endless day, with these memories, with this insoluble torment...

It was necessary to escape, to occupy oneself with something, to go somewhere. He went to the market. But at the market everything was so stupid and absurd that he fled from there. I went into the cathedral, where they sang loudly, with a sense of duty fulfilled, then walked for a long time around the small neglected garden: “How can you live peacefully and generally be simple, careless, indifferent? - he thought. “How wild, how absurd everything is everyday, ordinary, when the heart is struck by this terrible “sunstroke,” too much love, too much happiness!”

Returning to the hotel, the lieutenant went into the dining room and ordered lunch. Everything was fine, but he knew that he would die tomorrow without hesitation, if by some miracle he could return her, tell her, prove how painfully and enthusiastically he loves her... Why? He didn’t know why, but it was more necessary than life.

What to do now when it is no longer possible to get rid of this unexpected love? The lieutenant stood up and resolutely went to the post office with the already prepared phrase of the telegram, but stopped at the post office in horror - he did not know either her last name or her first name! And the city, hot, sunny, joyful, reminded Anapa so unbearably that the lieutenant, with his head bowed, staggered and stumbled, walked back.

He returned to the hotel completely defeated. The room was already tidy, devoid of the last traces of her - only one forgotten hairpin lay on the night table! He lay down on the bed, lay with his hands behind his head and looking intently in front of him, then he clenched his teeth, closed his eyes, feeling tears rolling down his cheeks, and finally fell asleep...

When the lieutenant woke up, the evening sun was already yellowing behind the curtains, and yesterday and this morning were remembered as if they were ten years ago. He got up, washed, drank tea with lemon for a long time, paid the bill, got into the cab and drove to the pier.

When the ship set sail, the summer night was already blue over the Volga. The lieutenant sat under a canopy on the deck, feeling ten years older. Retold Natalia Bubnova

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I propose to talk about the story of I.A. Bunin "Sunstroke".

Story by I.A. Bunin's “Sunstroke” (you can read it in full here: text) was written at the beginning of the 20th century. Many phenomena and objects of that time have already disappeared from our lives, but the events themselves could have happened anywhere and anytime.

What happens in the story? Nameless heroes - a lieutenant and his casual acquaintance - get off the ship in an unfamiliar city on the Volga. Their flaring passion, as it seems at first, is the culmination of the story, and parting after a night of love is the obvious denouement. However, these events are just the beginning. Only after the hero accompanies the “beautiful stranger” to the ship does he realize that he can no longer live without her, and that he will not be able to find her. The hero’s senses are extremely heightened, he feels invisible connections between everything in the world around him: the color of the tan on his beloved’s hand - and the smell of the sun, the swaying of hot air. Everything around speaks of a lover found and lost - and that everything is useless and meaningless without her. The culmination of the story is not the night of passion itself, but the realization of how meaningless life is and how endless time is without a beloved.

The plot is described in more detail in the section (but we recommend that you read the full text of the work, because it is quite short). You can also listen Audiobook in a wonderful acting performance.

There are only two heroes in the story - the lieutenant and the stranger. We don’t learn details about their lives before the meeting: maybe because now, for this meetings, the whole past is unimportant. They don't have names, as often happens with Bunin. Perhaps because the names Not needed: there is only He and She. The heroes might not even tell each other what their names are. We know that this is exactly what the heroine does, and her silence leaves no hope for a happy continuation of the love story.

In “Sunstroke,” as in many of Bunin’s works, we see features of various genres, including epic narrative and lyrics. However, the emotional, spiritual principle at some point begins to prevail over events. At first, the actions of the characters are described from the author’s point of view, but as the lyrical plot unfolds external action gives way internal: the perception of the hero is conveyed more and more clearly and clearly. It is through his eyes that we see the county town; the hero’s internal evolution is in the spotlight. Let us note the special intensity of spiritual events in the work: the hero becomes a different person within one day. By the way, this allows researchers to identify elements in the story short stories- a short story with fast-paced action and an unexpected ending. Thus, before us a story with a very strong lyrical component and features of a novella.

The problematic of “Sunstroke” is connected with one of the central issues of Bunin’s work - the essence of love. According to Bunin, love is an elemental force that knows no laws. It's always happiness and disaster at the same time, it's both a gift and a gift(here the ambiguity of the title is revealed). Now the hero, who has known true feeling, is forever fenced off from other people who do not know it. These people are much happier than him, they don’t suffer like that, but they didn’t experience this blinding flash either.

The problem of the story is supported leitmotif of the sun and the details associated with it: heat, light, radiance, a tan on the beloved’s hand, the shine of water, the buttons of a jacket red-hot from the heat, the flaming face of the hero. All these details constantly bring us back to the central theme - a great, burning and unbearable feeling for a person.

Ivan Alekseevich Bunin wrote the story “Sunstroke” in 1925, while in the Maritime Alps. This story, like many other works of Bunin written in exile, has a love plot. The author in this work shows that mutual feelings can stir up a series of love experiences.

Bunin thought a lot about the title of the story. There were two poorly chosen titles for the story, which the author himself considered simple and completely obvious. They did not reflect Bunin’s mood, the first reported on the events taking place, the second indicated the possible name of the heroine. This is how the writer came up with the idea for the third and most successful title, “Sunstroke.” This title simply screamed about the feeling that the main character experienced, such a sudden, bright feeling that instantly captures a person and, as it were, burns him to ashes.

In the work, the author does not give a clear description of the characters in the story, everything is extremely vague, no names, no ages. In this way, the writer seems to elevate his main characters above their environment, conditions and time. The characters in the story are the lieutenant and his companion. Having previously been strangers, after spending one day together, they felt such a sincere, pure feeling that they had not experienced before. But on the way, the lovers encountered obstacles and the machinations of fate, and they involuntarily said goodbye. Bunin wanted to show that gray everyday life is very harmful for love, they only destroy it.

Bunin tells the story of a fleeting romance that arose between a lieutenant and a married lady. He delves into all the intricacies of the inflamed passion that arose between the heroes, who, after spending the night without even knowing each other’s names, are forced to part. The lieutenant was so captivated by his fellow traveler that after parting he felt melancholy and spiritual emptiness. Sitting in the empty cabin, he felt that he had aged ten years. But what aggravated his condition was confusion and bewilderment. He did not know how to find the lady of his heart and confess to her about his feelings and no longer sees life without her.

Bunin's narrative style is very "dense". He is a master of the short genre; in a small volume, he manages to fully reveal all the images of his characters and convey the whole essence of his plan and plot.

I. A. Bunin never spoke about happy love. The story “Sunstroke” is no exception. He believed that the union of souls is a completely different feeling, incommensurate with passion. True love comes and goes as suddenly as sunstroke.

Option 2

We know nothing about the characters in this short story. He is a lieutenant. Judging by the mention of the deserts of Turkestan, he returns from the extreme south of the Russian Empire. She is a young lady who has a husband and a three-year-old daughter somewhere. Among the characters in the story, we can also mention the footman “in a pink shirt” and the cheerful cab driver. In the evening he took two people to the hotel, and on the next ship he brought one officer in a cab. That's all. The rest of the story is occupied by a description of the feelings of a young rake in a Volga town scorched by the sun.

Why didn't she want to continue the journey together? Apparently, she understood the difference between the passion that gripped them and love. Then the vulgarity of the illegal relationship between a married woman and a young officer would begin. From this we can draw another conclusion: she is older and more experienced. The love affair will remain a secret, remembering which she will not be so bored while away the winter evenings in some provincial town. And what happened to them will not happen again. Then, if they don’t break up, “everything will be ruined.”

The lieutenant's wanderings around an unfamiliar town deserve a separate discussion. Everything seems too ordinary and boring to him compared to what he has just experienced. Perhaps it’s too early to call him a rake. The young man is in love. Maybe this happened to him for the first time. The sun blinds him, the air suffocates him. But he is sincerely mistaken. The beautiful woman gave him a feeling of happiness. And it’s good that it won’t last long. Now he knows what it is, but has not yet experienced disappointment. She gave him a future.

Perhaps the beautiful stranger does not have such a happy family life. Otherwise she would not have gone to the resort alone. Girls were married off early, and she did not have time to experience anything like this before she walked down the aisle. That evening she gave vent to her feelings for the first time. What makes so many assumptions and impressions arise after reading just a few pages? After all, an ordinary everyday situation is described. But the author paid such attention to subtle, seemingly insignificant details that thanks to this the story seems to become larger, depicting not a provincial town and two people who accidentally got off the ship there, but the whole country. One can also say about the painting of Bunin, who painted both a picture and a story at the same time. But this painting shows not only the external features of the characters, but also their subtlest experiences.

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Illustration for I. A. Bunin’s story “Sunstroke”

In the works of Ivan Alekseevich Bunin, love is always tragic, and sometimes it does not save, but leads to death. The heroes of his famous works do not know family and quiet happiness, so as not to break the love boat in everyday life.

Story "Sunstroke" amazing and varied in its own way. The writer analyzes it a serious personal problem: a choice that carries consequences. The heroes make their choice and find themselves far from each other, without hope of reunion.

This work tells about the unexpected love that broke out between the main characters - a lieutenant and a beautiful stranger. Ivan Bunin does not give them names in order to show that they are ordinary people, and their story is not at all unique. The couple is not ready for a big and bright feeling, and they have absolutely no time to understand it, since they only have one night, which they spend enjoying each other. When the time comes to say goodbye, the lieutenant does not think about the mortal melancholy that will attack him after his beloved leaves the ship forever. As if before his eyes, his whole life passes, which is measured, assessed now from the height of the tender feeling that imprisoned him in chains.

The meeting of the lieutenant and the stranger became a “sunstroke” for both of them: blinded with passion, and then devastated their souls. I.A. Bunin shows us that every person has a need to love and be loved, but in his story this love is devoid of illusions. Not every person can take on such great responsibility - be in love. For the heroes of this story, love turned out to be an immense happiness that they could not afford.

"A beautiful stranger…"

It is obvious that with this work the author wanted to show the dramatic outcome of love. Bunin never wrote about happy love. In his opinion, reunion and kinship of souls is a completely different feeling that has nothing to do with passion that rises to the skies. True love, as has already been said, comes and goes suddenly, like sunstroke.

Meanwhile, each of us is free to choose what to do in a given situation. The meeting of heroes was an attempt to drown out the alarming voice of a yearning heart.

The love that the lieutenant realized too late almost destroys him, deprives him of the joy of life; he feels "ten years older." As if looking for salvation from the surging tenderness, he rushes into the city, wanders through the market, passes people and feels terribly alone. This bittersweet feeling prevents him from thinking and looking at the world soberly. He knows for sure that he will never meet his stranger again.

The love that Bunin describes in his works has no future. His heroes will never be able to find happiness; they are doomed to suffer. “Sunstroke” once again reveals Bunin’s concept of love: "Having fallen in love, we die..." .

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