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Streszczenie książki Udar słoneczny i tęsknota za domem
- 8 min czytania
- 10 parts
- Nagranie wkrótce
A widow spends a day at a Madrid fair and comes home with a secret she cannot wash away.
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Udar słoneczny i tęsknota za domem — najważniejsze informacje
Streszczenie: 8 min czytania
- Czas czytania
- Około 5 h 55 min4 h 45 min fast, 7 h 5 min slow
- Długość
- Liczba słów: 84 900
- Poziom trudności w bibliotece
- Średni longer sentences, everyday words
- Pierwsze wydanie
- 1889by Emilia Pardo Bazán
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Udar słoneczny i tęsknota za domem in short
Sunstroke follows Asís Taboada through one reckless day at the San Isidro fair and the days after it: shame, denial, a scrubbing bath, Commander Pardo's theories and the steady pull of a charming Andalusian. Homesickness follows Doña Aurora, her son Rogelio and the servant Esclavitud Lamas as love, class and fear of scandal tangle in a single Madrid apartment. You keep a sharp view of how society judges women by appearances, how heat, drink and loneliness loosen reason, and how longing for a place or a person can reshape a life.
What Udar słoneczny i tęsknota za domem is about
A woman wakes in a darkened Madrid bedroom with a headache like a drill, and her maid has a quick explanation: sunstroke. Asís Taboada, a widowed marchioness of thirty-two, nods at once. But a voice inside her refuses the excuse. What did she do the day before?
Sunstroke and Homesickness joins two short novels by Emilia Pardo Bazán, the Galician countess who wrote at the end of the nineteenth century. Both are set in Madrid among people from Galicia. In the first, a lady spends a day at a pilgrimage fair with a charming man from Cádiz. In the second, a mother, her delicate son and a homesick servant share one apartment and one growing worry.
Dla kogo. Readers who enjoy Spanish fiction with sharp humor, lively street scenes and women who test the rules will find plenty here. It also suits anyone curious about Galicia or the ache of homesickness.
The story in 10 parts
Key idea 1 · free to read
A guilty conscience speaks louder than a headache
Asís wakes with pain drilling through her temples. Her maid, nicknamed the Devil, brings linden tea and a ready explanation. It must be sunstroke, she says, because the day before was hot enough to drop birds from the sky. Asís agrees at once.
Then a second voice speaks inside her, and it will not accept the sun as the culprit. It lists the facts of her life like a lawyer. She is thirty-two, a widow, a loving mother and a careful lady, and still she has done something foolish.
She thinks ahead to her confessor, the stern Jesuit Father Urdax, and wonders how to put this into polite words. She decides to rehearse the whole account in her head, and that rehearsal becomes the story, told by a narrator who winks at us.
The body mends in an hour, but the conscience takes far longer to be satisfied.
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A quarrel about Spanish savagery sets everything moving
At the Duchess of Sahagún's weekly gathering, Commander Gabriel Pardo, a fellow Galician and an artillery officer, picks a fight.
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Small yeses lead Asís to the fair
The next morning is the feast of San Isidro, and Asís sets out for Mass in her mantilla.
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The noisy fair turns into a rolling sea
As the afternoon goes on, Asís feels the ground sway.
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Pacheco keeps coming back and Pardo talks theory
When Asís returns from dinner with two old-fashioned aunts, Pacheco is waiting in her hall.
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A mother watches her son from the window
The second novel opens on Calle Ancha de San Bernardo in Madrid, where Doña Aurora Nogueira de Pardiñas lives across from the university.
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A homesick servant arrives with a letter and a secret
One cold October morning Rogelio meets a young woman in mourning talking to the cabman Martín.
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Mother's fear grows as the two young people draw close
Esclavitud's beauty flowers, with green eyes, fair braids and a saintly look.
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Both stories ask what home and honor cost
The two novels mirror each other.
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A teasing narrator, sharp humor and strong symbols
Pardo Bazán tells Sunstroke largely through Asís's own thoughts, as a confession, with the narrator stepping in to comment.
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Characters, plot and themes
Main characters
- Asís Taboada A widowed marchioness from Vigo, proud of her good name, who longs to act freely and to stay respectable at once.
- Diego Pacheco A witty, idle young gentleman from Cádiz who charms everyone and wants the lady he meets at a duchess's gathering.
- Gabriel Pardo A Galician artillery commander and eccentric thinker who attacks social hypocrisy and carries a private sorrow about a niece.
- Doña Aurora Pardiñas A widowed judge's wife who dotes on her son, loves her home region, and will do anything to protect him.
- Rogelio Her twenty-year-old son, a delicate, joking law student who longs to be seen as a man.
- Esclavitud Lamas A young Galician servant, ashamed of her birth and sick with homesickness, who wants only to serve people from home.
- Don Gaspar Febrero An elegant retired judge past eighty, with a crutch and a remarkable memory for bygone years, who is charmed by the new servant.
- Don Nicanor Candás A sharp-tongued Asturian prosecutor who pretends to be deaf and loves needling his friends with the news.
How it ends (spoiler)
In Sunstroke, Asís plans to leave Madrid but gives in when Pacheco comes to say goodbye, and the two spend the night together. By morning they are discussing marriage, and he plans a trip to Cádiz to win his father's approval. In Homesickness, Doña Aurora moves Esclavitud to Don Gaspar's home and takes Rogelio by train to Galicia. Esclavitud watches the train go and resolves never to see another sunrise, and the narrator hints that she takes her own life.
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Pytania o Udar słoneczny i tęsknota za domem
What is Sunstroke and Homesickness about?
It joins two short novels. Sunstroke follows a widowed marchioness whose day at a Madrid fair changes her life. Homesickness follows a mother, her delicate son and a young Galician servant who longs for home.
What does morriña mean in Homesickness?
Morriña is the Galician word for homesickness. In the story Esclavitud describes it as a bone that falls out of place and drains the spirit, making a person sad, thin and unable to eat.
Who are Asís, Pacheco and Pardo in Sunstroke?
Asís Taboada is a widowed marchioness from Vigo. Diego Pacheco is a charming, idle gentleman from Cádiz. Gabriel Pardo is her fellow Galician and friend, an artillery commander who argues about society and morality.
Is Sunstroke and Homesickness easy to read?
Yes is not needed here: both novels move quickly, with lively dialogue, comic scenes and short chapters. The narrator speaks warmly and plainly, and the fair, the old judges' circle and the servants' banter keep each scene clear.
When was Sunstroke and Homesickness written and is it true to life?
Pardo Bazán wrote both novels in the late nineteenth century. They are fiction, yet they draw on real Madrid places, festivals, customs and the lives of Galician families living far from home.
Zacytuj to wydanie
Pardo Bazán, Emilia. Sunstroke and Homesickness. Library of Alexandria, 2026, libraryofalexandria.com/products/sunstroke-and-homesickness.
Pardo Bazán, E. (2026). Sunstroke and homesickness. Library of Alexandria. https://libraryofalexandria.com/products/sunstroke-and-homesickness (Original work published 1889)
Pardo Bazán, Emilia. Sunstroke and Homesickness. Library of Alexandria, 2026. https://libraryofalexandria.com/products/sunstroke-and-homesickness.
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author = {Pardo Bazán, Emilia},
title = {Sunstroke and Homesickness},
publisher = {Library of Alexandria},
year = {2026},
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note = {First published 1889}
}
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