I think many times, people meet each other like trains roaring through the middle of the night. We looked at the man behind the dimly dim car window and glanced hastily. Before it was too late to see clearly, the other party had disappeared from sight. - "Lisbon Night Train"
There will always be a moment in life when we feel lonely, but we can't get rid of loneliness.
Therefore, some people become habits when they are lonely, and finally reconcile with loneliness, just like the Japanese writer Haruki Murakami.
There are also some people, obviously troubled by loneliness, but still have no hesitation in fighting against loneliness, and finally meet another lonely person in loneliness and get healed.
Curing a lonely person requires another lonely person, and this understanding of loneliness comes from the famous Swiss writer Pascal Messier's novel "Night Train in Lisbon".
If I were to make a comment about this book, I would say that it is a book that can enter your soul.
The book tells a story about escaping and finding my true self, which in turn triggered my reflections on life and my understanding of loneliness.
This is a philosophical book that can really enter my heart, and it is also a book of life, and after reading this book, I will have the desire to read it again.
I always feel that the protagonist's behavior in the book seems to be a walk-and-go journey, seemingly to find the answers that his heart wants to know, but in fact, his real purpose is not so.
As a best-selling book in many countries, "Lisbon Night Train" has lived up to expectations and won people's reputation.
The novel tells such a story, and the protagonist of the story is named Raimond Golegris.
Golegris was an ancient language teacher at the Liberal Arts Secondary School, who grew up poor and later became a professional teacher because of his love of ancient languages.
He has been conscientious since he started teaching, and he is the most reliable and one-eyed person in this school.
Now in his fifties, Legris has been teaching at the school for more than thirty years, and his work is remarkable, and even the students have nicknamed him "Omniscient." ”
But such a rigid person, such a step-by-step, non-flexible person, but in the year of confusion, he met a strange Portuguese woman and had a brief relationship with her.
It was a short time together, like a chance encounter in life, which should have been no intersection, but unexpectedly left a shadow in Golegris's mind.
This shadow, this encounter, suddenly awakened Golegris, who was like a soul pot empowerment, and suddenly began to dislike the existing life.
He thought that his life was like this, talking about retirement on this three-foot podium, but he did not expect that a chance encounter actually made him look back at his current self from the end of his life.
Golegris came to a bookstore and happened to see a book that suited him perfectly, and in this way, he was attracted by the book "The Alchemist of Words" and decided to leave the pulpit where he had been for more than thirty years and turn to find another life.
The book of The Alchemy of Words opened the door for Golegris to seek out the Portuguese doctor and get the answers he wanted.
In this way, the omniscient teacher embarked on a walk-and-go journey that ended in Lisbon.
The city of Lisbon is a city with a lot of stories, a city where Golegris first came, but he was no stranger.
Coming to the city, Golegris's goal is to find Prado, the author of The Alchemist of Words, and to know the story about him.
In the front of the novel, the protagonist's travel seems to be a blind and unplanned derailed trip, but in fact, such a beginning is not abrupt.
In fact, this kind of writing, the writer Maugham wrote in his famous work "The Moon and Sixpence".
The protagonist of "Lisbon Night Train", Gregorys, and Strickland in "The Moon and Sixpence" are the same kind of people, the difference is that one is to reflect on life, and finally to feel life, and the other is to reflect on life, jump out of the shackles of life, and pursue another pursuit.
Both people made the right choice for themselves at the right time, but they took different paths.
In them, we can always see the pain and tearing feeling of human growth, and we can also see the way to fight loneliness after people's loneliness.
In fact, looking back at these two people with similar fates, we will find that whether it is Golegris or Strickland, both of them are loners and loners.
The hearts of both of them are longing for someone to understand, and they are also eager for someone to truly cure their loneliness.
Golegris cured of his loneliness and chose to visit the experiences of his fellow Prado to constantly reflect and change himself.
Strickland chose to embark on a road that could not be turned back, fighting for the ideal in his heart, but even if the ideal could provide him with passion and nourishment, he could not fill the emptiness and loneliness in his heart.
So Strickland finally met a woman who knew herself on the island and gave birth to her own child, and his life suddenly ceased to be a gap in the past, but became complete.
So at this time, it is not difficult for us to find that life is lonely, and to cure a lonely person needs another lonely person.
Each of them can find the man in life who heals his loneliness, and we will certainly find it.
If you are also the lonely person, if you have ever wanted to escape loneliness, want to escape from the mediocrity of life, free to choose your own life, if you are like me looking for a companion in life, you must read "Lisbon Night Train".
Goriegris' night train trip to Lisbon is a journey to find the companions of life.
A man, a teacher who has a successful career and loves what he has taught, abandons everything he once had and turns to an unknown answer, no doubt requires courage and determination.
These Golegris have them all. He traveled to Lisbon to visit the friend of the Portuguese doctor Prado, intending to find the ultimate answer to life.
Golegris travels to Lisbon and finds the Blue House Clinic where Prado once lived, where he meets Prado's sister and learns a lot about Prado.
The story begins in the Blue House, which opens up a dialogue-style narrative, and when the author writes this story, he writes the content of "The Alchemist of Words" while constantly interspersed with Golegris's perceptions and what he sees and hears.
In a suspenseful way, the novel vividly and vividly shows us the life of a god man, a person whom everyone admires, Prado.
Golegris not only visited Prado's sister, but also went to find many of Prado's former friends and relatives, such as Prado's only friend, George, and Father Bartholomew, Prado's teacher, whom Prado once admired, and in these kisses, as well as in their correspondence and memories, we become more and more clear about Prado's image.
Gregorys was not satisfied, he wanted to know the whole truth, so while watching "The Alchemist of Words", he visited a number of people related to Lado, such as Prado's former girlfriend Maria and Estefonia.
The memories of these people, in tandem, show Prado's life very well, and also make Golegris understand Prado more deeply.
In the process of Golegris's search for the root cause again and again, we also found again and again that prado was full of contradictions, but he also had his own aura.
For example, Prado once had parents who loved him very much, and his family was rich, but what made him angry was that his father, who was a judge, was always sick, and his controlling mother always disrespected his ideas.
His parents cared for him and shielded him from the wind and rain, so that he could grow up safely and not touch things that he should not know.
But Prado was not destined to be a naïve child, he had his own ideas, and the love and deeds of his parents made him rebellious and resistant.
So he could take charge of his own life, and Prado decided to be a good doctor and cure his father's illness.
It's just that Prado is too precocious and too thoughtful, his ideas are outrageous, he does a lot of things that others don't expect, he speaks more blatantly, to criticize the church.
Prado has been lonely since childhood, because he lacks the understanding of his family and even more lacks friends.
So such a lonely child he has his own quirks, so he has few friends after adulthood, and George is the most suitable friend, but this friend in the end also because of the two sides' different ideas and insistence, but also because of some things, the two people have contradictions, this friendship is gone.
Prado died to save someone who shouldn't be saved, but Prado believes that no matter what this person does, no one has the right to decide whether a person lives or dies, even if this person is a bad person, even if he is extremely evil.
In fact, prado has been fighting for what he insists on all his life, he opposes the oppression of others, does not want to be controlled by the so-called church, he wants to have his own thoughts and freedom.
He was afraid of death, but he felt that death might be another way for people to live, thinking that it was a gift from God. So he said, "Funerals are someone else's business, it has nothing to do with the dead." ”
It is such a deviant person, who has done a lot of things that normal people can't do, he is lonely all his life, but he can always meet the right person at the right time, but in the end he can't avoid the fate of death.
And Golegris, by exploring the path that Prado has traveled and the life he has experienced, is like re-living, a spiritual journey.
Those who once couldn't think clearly, and the lonely and lonely life was like finding the hope of life and the meaning of life.
It is such a trip to Lisbon, it is like experiencing another life, and the answer to life can only be seen in the journey.
In our lifetime, we will always meet different people, and we will always meet some faces that we have never known, but no matter what, we cannot fully understand a person through images, and if we want to truly understand a person in life, then go to the road he has walked and see what he has experienced.
We are all in the red dust, but at the same time we are anxious, if you also want to escape from loneliness and find companions in life, you may wish to read "Lisbon Night Train".