I spent a week, using the morning and evening, and on my way back and forth to work, carefully re-reading the world's famous book The Red and the Black.
This is based on the influence of Maugham's essay "Reading is a Refuge to Carry With You," which he says Stendhal and Balzac are two of the greatest masters of world literature he most admires, and points out that each masterpiece shapes the author's ideal self. For example, Jullien in this masterpiece is the self that Stendhal most expects, expecting perfect and conquering love, and heroism that wants to break the stereotypical reality of social classes.
It is also based on the fact that Da Yan said that she recently wanted to read this book, hoping that we would read it together and share our reading experience, and promote her to complete the literary masterpiece review assignment to be written.
Reading this book many years ago, I only felt that it was an unequal love story between two commoners and nobles, and after re-reading it, I truly understood the power and value of this book, which is also the charm that has lasted for hundreds of years.
Stendhal (1783-1842), aged sixty, was the most famous and representative Critical Realist writer in France of the nineteenth century, representing the Works of the Red and the Black and the Abbey of Bama.
Born into a family of middle-class French lawyers, Stendhal underwent an overly harsh education from an early age, was also influenced by his maternal grandfather, and enjoyed reading literature. He developed the habit of being sensitive and thoughtful, good at understanding the people and things around him, and had joined the army, so he slowly formed a multiple personality of intelligence and pride, but also hating reality and worshipping heroism.
There are many different interpretations and interpretations of the name of this work "The Red and the Black", which was originally called "Jullien", but only changed to a more realistic and critical, contradictory and antagonistic name when it was published.
"Everyone has a grave at the bottom of their heart to bury their loved ones." "Language is used to cover up people's minds." "My dream is worth fighting for myself, and my life today is by no means a cold copy of my life yesterday." These are all golden sentences that everyone in the work of "The Red and the Black" is familiar with.
My personal understanding is that "red" represents light and ideals, and also represents the red revolutionary forces of Napoleon's army that the author reveres, which is the righteous force that represents the common people. Black represents the feudal, ugly, and dark forces of reality, and also refers to the black robes of the restoration of the dynasty at that time, and also represents the selfish and corrupt aristocratic class that criticizes the cloak of religion.
"The Red and the Black" depicts Yu Lian, the son of a carpenter born in a small french country and living at the bottom, who was bullied by two brothers who only worked brute force, because he liked to read, and became the most disliked object of his father Sohair, who only cared about money. But Jullien was determined to grow up to be a man, and he was an aspiring young man who grew up after the French Revolution, like the generation influenced by the new youth magazine in the popular "The Age of Awakening" a while ago, although he was born humble but admired Napoleon, and had great ambitions from an early age, as he said: "In all undertakings, there is a need for intelligent people, in the era of Napoleon's rule, I will be an officer; in the future priests, I will be a bishop." ”
God favored the ambitious Jullien, with his innate memory, he could recite the entire Bible in Latin, successfully entered the home of mr. Dreyner, the mayor of the local outbreak household, became a governess, and from then on, step by step, he counterattacked the path of the aristocratic circle.
After becoming a governess, because she was not seen as a coward by a woman, she boldly touched Madame's hand and began to bravely pursue the simple and kind Madame Reina, until the two sides fell madly in love, and finally found by Mr. Reina, and had to be forced to leave, with the help of Madame and the local priest, to study at the seminary in the city.
In the seminary, Jullien saw that behind the sacred black robe, there were all dirty gangs and power and money transactions. But Jullien remained studious and became a proud protégé of Father Pilar of the seminary. Unfortunately, Pilar became a victim of the religious rights struggle, and was forced to resign, before leaving, successfully introduced Jullien to the Marquis de Lamore as a secretary, and finally fell in love with the Marquis's daughter Mathilde, until the unmarried pregnancy was revealed, coupled with The fact that Madame Reyna was forced to write a letter to expose, the Marquis was angry, and Jullien finally fell into prison when he reached the top of the flying yellow Tengda, and was finally sentenced to death and lost his young life.
The most classic thing is that Jullien's case has aroused widespread concern in society, especially the majority of women, different people represent different classes, and their reactions and performances in human nature, money, power, friendship and other aspects deeply portray human nature and the actual psychological state of people's existence at that time.
Although this work is a long production of 400,000 words, each chapter is short and concise, relatively easy to read, and step by step, it is tense in the whirlpool of love and political struggle of Lian's lone army. Each chapter is preceded by quotations from other famous writers' golden phrases or poems. For example, the first chapter of the small town begins with Hobbes's "Enlarge millions of beings together, remove the broken, and the cage is not so lively." “
I don't know if this was written by the original author or added by the new translation, which has a wonderful use for the opening point.
The author's superb creative techniques make the novel echo from the beginning and end of many latitudes, such as humble birth, and violent death; Sohair's father, who appears shortly after the beginning, and the mayor skillfully negotiate the code, successfully pushing Jullien to the door of the aristocratic class, until the end of the reappearance, or for money; and Mrs. Rayner from the time of revenge to true love, to the end of the continuous killing of her, the two sides still only love each other, three days after the death of The Reyn Mathilde has always had a heroic love plot of Queen Margaret in her heart, and after Lian's death, she dressed in black and kissed Yulian's head, restoring the scene of Queen Margaret's once divine love.
This is a literary masterpiece worth reading and collecting, not only because of its superb creative technique, depicting and presenting complex interpersonal relationships and class struggles, but also truly reflecting the social characteristics of that era, but also because of the long and unforgettable love story.
As critics have said, Stendhal wrote not only fiction, but history.