The Last Briton: Love, War, and the End of British Rule in India describes the love and careers of several Britons and Indians under British precarious rule over India in the 1940s. The author, Deborah Baker, not only sketches us of the magnificent turbulent situation, but also shows the inner struggles of different characters with a delicate and delicate writing characteristic of women. The mystery of the Himalayas, the charm of literature, and the British government's call for young British people to go to India have led to a greater or less intersection between the geologist John, the cartographer Michael, the writer Westan, the painter Nancy, and the Indian poet Sudin.
* John Auden was born into an upper-middle-class British family of doctors. During a welsh vacation, his father patiently explained to him how early geologists could tell how fossils were from cambrian, Ordovician, or Silurian. This was perhaps his first interest in geology.
He formed the Indian Mountaineering Club and aspired to one day climb Mount Everest. He enjoyed geological exploration and later became a pioneer of geologists in the Himalayas. His heart is full of wandering and confusion about love and faith, just like his attitude towards his motherland and India.
* Westerstein was John's younger brother, the famous English poet W. Wester. H. Auden! He's 3 years younger than John, loves to bite his fingers, has pretty bad table manners, sings hymns out loud in the shower, and indulges in studying poop. But he can always show his innocent side in front of his mother and gain her favor. He is also more confident and cheerful. Many times, it was 6-year-old Westerstein who led 9-year-old John around strange places.
Auden's remarkable achievements in poetry are recognized as the most important English poets after Eliot, and a famous homosexual. P.S. he is also the only of several major characters who can baidubaike.
The Hidden Law's Hidden Law
The Hidden Law does not deny the hidden law and does not deny it
Our laws of probability, our laws of probability
But takes the atom and the star instead of putting atoms, stars and people
And human beings as they are, all treated as they really are,
And answers nothing when we lie. It ignores it when we lie.
Michael spent a full year surveying and mapping detailed maps of two small islands outside the Great Barrier Reef. He studied stereoscopic measurement and went to Switzerland to survey for the Alps. He then went to Berlin to learn precision stereoscopiers and aerial photogrammetry techniques, where he met his future wife, Erica Halman. After that, he and John participated in the survey of the Himalayas. During World War II, he worked for the Air Force and the Navy as a photo interpreter, anticipating fighters and situations by taking photographs of enemy bases.
Westan introduced his brother John and classmate Michael Spence to the painter Nancy Sharp. So they were not only partners in the exploration of the Himalayas, but also competitors in the pursuit of Nancy.
Nancy Sharp is the only female figure to focus on, a graduate of london's Slade Academy of Fine Arts, and since then she has aspired to turn the resentment and anger accumulated in her youth into art. As a student at the Academy of Fine Arts, her work was well received by The Times and the Manchester Guardian.
She ran away from her fiancé, was enthusiastic about all kinds of parties, reveled in wanton revelry, and constantly broke up with people. In the end, Bill, a young man who was always confident and able to express his opinions, was chosen to marry. After marriage, the life of her husband and godson once shattered her ideal of living for art. During the air raids on London in World War II, he was part of the ambulance station and accompanied the ambulance to pick up the wounded.
In fact, Nancy was one of the most underrated painters of her time. She is favored by many men, which shows her outstanding talent and unique charm. In addition to John, Michael, and Louis McNees, he was fascinated by him. Even if there have been inseparable feelings, they are all extramarital affairs. McNees was also a British writer, and both he and Westan were known as the "Oxford Four" in the 1930s.
In my opinion, the love of artists is too confusing and chaotic. Maybe this is not an emotion that ordinary people like me can understand.
Sudinjinat Data is a Bengali, handsome, witty and wealthy man. But his family's wealth was built up through alliances with Indian occupiers. When he was less than 30 years old, he accompanied Tagore to Los Angeles, but the trip was not very successful and ended early.
He was a melancholy poet whose soul was torn between his hatred of the British Empire and his deep love of European literature.
He organized the magazine "Acquaintance" and founded the Kolkata organization "Acquaintance Ada", which allowed people of insight with distinct personalities and good debates to express their opinions and continue to have dialogue. The central figure of Ada is called the Sun, and Sudin is the Sun of "Acquaintance Ada".
The marriage arranged by her parents was not happy, her wife was not educated, and the couple did not have a common language. This seems to be an eternal estrangement between the two. He met the 27-year-old painter Shera Bonnaji at the age of almost 40. Sheila was humorous, pretty, and a little melancholy, and deeply attracted Sudin. Although they grew closer and closer, Sudin felt that he could not bring Happiness to Sheila, so he introduced her to his closest friend John. Seeing that John and Sheila knew and fell in love and entered into marriage, Sudin's heart was entangled and complicated. That's damn love.
The author's brilliant pen is full of flowers, the world war, the autonomy of India, the partition of India and Pakistan, the struggle of small characters, the game between big people, always thrilling everywhere. The twists and turns of the love story under the fire of war let us see the complexity of human nature in the entanglement of interests.