Bunin, Rusya: a brief summary. Beloved by us, like no other lover will not be

In Grasse, on the Cote d'Azur, during a terrible war Bunin came inspiration. He wrote a collection of short stories "The Dark Alley," which he later considered his best work. These heart-rending stories of love, which always ends tragically. This is what gives all stories multidimensionality and content. The second part of the collection opens with a short story Bunin - "Rusya", a brief description of which describes the sudden love of two very young girls and young men.

Unplanned stop

The train just drove away from Moscow and suddenly stopped at Podolsk, waiting for the counter courier. From the compartment came two, solid ladies and gentlemen, who stopped at the half-open window. The man suddenly said that in his youth he lived in these boring places, working as a tutor. The lady with some virulence suggested that there was a bored girl there. The man agreed only in part. He said that the girl was not bored at all, and at night they rode on an old leaking boat over a swampy swampy lake. And all around - only silence, a squeak of mosquitoes, and everywhere dragonflies fly. The lady continued to question the appearance of the girl with a certain amount of jealousy and resentment, because she had never heard of her before. So continues his story Bunin "Rusya". The summary will consist in showing inevitability of the fast end of this hardly arisen love. The man responded dryly to the questions of his wife about the appearance of the girl, who was dark, dark and strict in her face, as in icons, with a long black scythe and walking about in poverty in a simple yellow sarafan. Outwardly she looked like a mother who was a strange and melancholic woman, silent. In her society, a young man, who was a tutor to their youngest son, felt tense. The train started, and the husband and wife went into the compartment. The woman continued to question why they did not marry. To get rid of him, the man said rather rudely that he had left, and it was all over.

Flushed memories

My wife quickly fell asleep, and my husband lay and smoked, and before him from the depths of the subconscious surfaced precious pictures of the past, which he seemed to hide for ever, but who stood up now vyav. So Bunin's story "Rusya" continues (the short story can be described by the words of another poet: my former one rose like yesterday). Here is the summer rain. Rusya, all drenched in the fresh fragrant rain and endlessly beautiful, runs into the room, and the young man, distraught with unspeakable happiness, rushes to take off her wet shoes. And when a cock came running in at that time black with a metallic-green ebb, everything remained in my memory. The most insignificant detail.

How did the novel begin?

Rusya was the first to pay attention to the young man. She had the first desire to draw his attention. Her feeling seemed to induce not expecting anything young man. He only responded to her actions, not showing initiative himself. As Bunin shows, Rusya (a brief account of the story about this says), with all the unspent zeal of youth, gave herself to the feeling that came to her. She flirted with the young man, flirting, asking him what he read, ironically on every occasion, waiting for an answer, and finally invited him to go on a boat. Afraid of refusing her feelings, she learned a constant mocking tone in the conversation: Well, I'm not interested in me, and I do not really need it.

First trip by boat

Only on the boat, when a young man threw out a huge horror from it, Rusya spoke for the first time simply, as they would say now, without "jokes", and they first looked into each other's eyes. Rusya had been struck by beauty before, but now he thought about her for the first time with tenderness. And she took his cap, pressed it to her breast and promised to protect it. Again the boy's heart trembled. Suddenly an unreliable old boat began to crumble, and the young people involuntarily turned out to be very close. Kisses were inevitable in this unaware that she creates, couples. This is what Bunin says. Rusya, the short content of the story, shows this in its entirety, completely forgot in her happiness.

Going at night

The next day in the garden, Rusya asked him if he loved. And, not realizing the report, the young man lied that from the first meeting. And after all, as Bunin shows, there was no such thing. The girl initially interested him a little. Only the efforts that she made caused his attention and a reciprocal feeling. At night Rusya (Bunin) - a brief summary can not miss this detail - being careful, because her mother is watching her, she came to a boat with a rug so that they did not freeze and swam to the other shore. The young people were all alone. And again Rusya took the initiative, spread out the rug and pulled the young man to her. Subtle and chaste will describe Bunin the manifestation of their love and the naive words of Rus, that now they are married. The happiness of both was fragile and unbearable - this is a short summary of the story "Rusya". Bunin found such words about the young couple that you believe in the purity and naivety of youth.

The Shameful End

It took only a week, and the young people sat in the house and looked at the pictures. Suddenly, with a soft step into the room, Rus's mother burst in with a scarecrow in her hands, frightened by sparrows, and fired, then struck the young man on the forehead and began shouting loudly that Rusya would forever remain with her: "Choose a daughter, or he or I."

Back in the car

Yes, all this was, but only twenty years ago. Remained the bitterness of the unfulfilled. In the restaurant he drank a lot, his wife was familiar and inevitable, with which he did not experience the fullness of life. A common dozen women, with whom one can only exist peacefully. The happiness that Bunin described ("The Dark Alley", "Rusya"), the brief content of the story shows that he does not and never will. The inevitability of the end must be remembered even in the sweetest moments. Love is one of our most tragic feelings.