Summary
A provincial landowner, his vital years irrevocably surrendered to the relentless currents of time, finds himself tragically ensnared by an incandescent, yet ultimately ephemeral, fascination with a vivacious young woman. Against the melancholic grandeur of a fading twilight, a fleeting, almost spectral, connection flickers into being, born more of wistful longing than any genuine prospect of reciprocation. This nascent, unbidden attraction serves as a cruel, unyielding mirror, reflecting the protagonist's encroaching senescence and the profound, cavernous emptiness that has come to define his solitary existence. The harrowing realization of this nascent 'romance's' inherent futility, its fundamental impossibility, dawns upon him with a chilling, soul-crushing clarity. He retreats, not merely to the physical confines of his desolate abode, but into the abyssal depths of his own shattered aspirations, the very architecture of his hopes crumbling around him in a silent, devastating collapse. It's a stark, poignant portrayal of desire's ultimate impotence against the inexorable march of time and the crushing, isolating weight of profound solitude, culminating in a resonant symphony of despair.
A provincial landowner, no longer a young man, is hopelessly attracted to a beautiful young girl at sunset. Realizing the futility of this novel, the hero returns to his empty house with , experiencing the collapse of his hopes.
