"Lilac Bush" (Kuprin), summary - a story of one love

2024 Author: Leah Sherlock | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 05:25

What is the story of Kuprin "The Lilac Bush" about? Of course, about love … As you know, the theme of love is the main theme in the work of Alexander Kuprin. The author once again invites the reader to join in thinking about this amazing and infinitely many-sided feeling. This time, in the story “The Lilac Bush” (Kuprin, read the summary below), love is a glass filled to the brim with clean water. It is transparent, quiet, crystal-clear, without impurities and precipitation. You admire it and want to drink it to the bottom. "Does this happen?" - you ask. It happens. So, "Lilac Bush" (Kuprin), summary …

The lectures at the military academy are over, and the young, bankrupt officer Almazov is returning home. This is how the story “The Lilac Bush” (Kuprin) begins, a summary of which youyou are reading now. Shifted eyebrows, a scowling face, a nervously bitten lower lip… The wife understood from the first second that a misfortune had happened, but did not immediately disturb him with questions. Perhaps, "God alone and Almazov's wife" knew the downside of the young officer's studies: difficult exams, failures in admission, and even the utopian idea of entering the Academy. But only she sacredly believed in him, kept him cheerful, gave him hope and said that the impossible does not exist. Only she saved and denied herself the most necessary in order to surround him with the necessary comfort and coziness. And only she was his personal secretary, reader, draftsman and copyist …

Five minutes have passed. He was silent and nervously broke the burnt matches from the ashtray into small pieces. Vera sat down on the back of her chair, gently hugged him and gently started a deliberately unpleasant conversation … It turns out that the night before he was finalizing his drawing - an instrumental survey of the area - and accidentally planted a bright green spot. How to proceed? After all, it is impossible to hand over the plan in this form, and he decided to finish the bushes in this place. Came out great and almost no stain.

However, the professor was a terrible pedant and also a German. He drew attention to the bushes and expressed his belief that they did not really exist. He has known this area for more than twenty years and is one hundred percent sure that he is right. Almazov was ashamed to admit his sloppiness, and he argued with the professor that the bushes "are present" in that place. Tomorrow they ride there together…

The story "The Lilac Bush" (Kuprin), its summary continues the thoughts of the protagonist. What to do? Shame, shame and unprecedented humiliation. Vera quickly got up, ran to the table, then to the chest of drawers. I began to open boxes, some boxes. She took out her simple “inheritance” - earrings, a ring and a bracelet, put it in her purse and said resolutely: “Let's go … if there are no such stupid bushes, then they should be planted right now”

They handed over jewelry to the pawnshop and bought lilac bushes with the proceeds, hired workers. At night, all the bushes were planted…

The next day, Vera's soul was anxious and restless. She could not stand it and went outside. Seeing from a distance the lively, bouncing gait of her beloved husband, she realized that in this story they had won. Probably, now lilac will forever remain a favorite flower, she thought, as they walked down the street together, holding hands and laughing non-stop, as if there was no one around but them…

Once again, I would like to remind you what this story, which was written by A. Kuprin, is called, " Lilac bush". The content, summarized briefly, cannot convey all the subtlety and depth of feelings of the main characters, so reading the original is a must.