tiger! tiger! As brilliant as fire,
Burn through the forest and grass of the night,
What extraordinary hands and eyes
Dare to shape your body with amazing symmetry
The poem comes from the English poet William Blake's masterpiece Tiger. Nature created tigers and humans. The vitality of life has burst out for thousands of years.
Although we have been plagued by the epidemic for the past two years, the life force can always erupt in a dim moment.
Lurking in each of us is such a "brilliant as fire" tiger. In 2022, regaining the strength of life, we can finally survive the present and move towards the future.
During the Spring Festival, I recommend 9 good books with the title of "Tiger", including poetry, prose, fables, short stories, children's literature, picture books, and the Year of the Tiger is angry with the tiger.
◆ The golden color of the tiger
Douban score: 8.3
Author: [Argentina] Borges
Publication year: 2016-8
poetry
Oh, sunset; oh, tiger,
Mythical, epic splendor.
Oh, and the lovely golden yellow:
It's light, it's hair,
I dream of stroking it with a longing hand.
The Tiger's Golden Yellow
Borges's masterpiece in his later years. In his later years, Borges gradually became blind due to a family genetic disease, and the only color he could see before he became blind and the only color he could see when he was blind was yellow. "Tiger" is an important metaphor for himself.
@ Man Over the Deer Dead in Search of Monks: The Golden Yellow of the Tiger 4.9 Borges's work of blindness in his later years, so compared to many previous solemn and clear poems, this collection of poems is about the disappointment that "we cannot count on heaven, but we can believe in hell". Starting from the bleak death of a hero, the god of history who wept and rain, the god of history who wandered alone in time and space, the yellow world, the dead who gathered in the underworld, the past and the future that could never be seen... It ultimately came down to the golden yellow of the mysterious tiger in the cage—that was all he could see in insomnia. The history of the foreign country is dead, the night is long, and there is only me in the room, and I in the mirror, peeping at each other, talking, killing each other.
◆ Talk about tiger sets
Douban score 8.2
Author: Zhou Zuoren
Publication year: 2019-6-1
prose
Although we do not hit children's mouths, but the daily unreasonable rebuke, unreasonable commands, and even unreasonable caresses, I don't know how invisibly damage their tender feelings, destroy their sweet dreams, and how to affect their personalities in the future!
This book contains a large number of essay works by Zhou Zuoren, and it is his comments on all personnel. The work is rich in content, clear in stance, and fierce in speech, fully showing the face of a social critic. The writing is vivid and smooth, seemingly scattered but contains exquisite ingenuity.
@慎習斋: This book is finally exciting to watch. Zhou Zuoren said, "These small articles of mine are more or less offending people and offending society, and I feel as if I have stepped on the tail of a tiger, and my selfishness cannot help but worry about discoloration, which is the origin of my collection name to talk about tigers, and there is no deep meaning." ”
◆ Three sad tigers
Douban score: 8.8
Author: [Cuba] Guillermo Cabrera Inventus
Publication year: 2021-7
Novel
We continued to the cinema. On the street corner there was a push of black blood under the street lamp where people gathered around to watch and comment. I can't even think of the movie we were going to see that day, though we went to see it anyway.
The masterpiece of the Cuban writer Invent, one of the most unique and experimental works in the Latin American "literary explosion" wave. The novel has no clear story line, and the opening scene is the most famous nightclub in Havana in the 50s, and after the host introduces it, a group of characters appear. The structure of the whole book echoes this, different characters on the scene, the end, with its unique perspective and sound to present a "play", each chapter together constitutes a grand and dazzling performance. The novel depicts several artists in Havana in the late 1950s, but the real protagonists are not them, but literature, film, music, and the city itself in memory.
The title of the book is derived from a well-known tongue twister in Spanish, and the whole work is full of a large number of language games, text experiments, text interactions, and abnormal typography, which can be described as a text containing all texts, and has become a "minority" classic in the history of 20th century literature. No less than Márquez's One Hundred Years of Solitude, published in the same year, it was hailed as Latin America's Ulysses and Havana's nightclub edition of Remembrance of the Lost Years.
@Hello Atang: It can be called a feast of language, full of carnival atmosphere, but the cynicism of wine has always run through a lonely mood. Obstacle-filled private language games, drunken wandering on the streets, lust and truth behind the wine talk, the protagonists through words (Silvestroferon), images (Koda), sounds (Cue), songs (star Rhea), music (Elibo), lust (Cuba) to confirm something constant, futile and helpless, and finally only writing (Sylvesterre) remains, but it is difficult to trust. The author's language game, and even the tongue twister of the title, probably tells us that you can't get to reality through language, but we have nothing but language.
◆ Tigers in the wet market
Author: Li Tang
Publication year: 2021-8
Fables
The tiger of childhood is still running
Mom and Dad have also grown up.
"Before the world lost its memory
Will it get better? ”
Seven fantasy fables. Whether it is the tiger accompanying the disabled girl in "The Tiger in the Wet Market", the little blue beast that devours sleep in "The Unknown Thing", or the keeper who longs to get close to the animal in "Animal Heart", they are all characters living in fairy tales or imaginary worlds, they have bright illusory colors, but they have entangled branches with the real world, and this unique cross-cutting echo brings people a wonderful reading experience.
@ Li Tang: 7 novels, all of which appeared animals, were only realized when they were assembled into a book. Perhaps animals represent spirituality and mystery beyond the everyday, and that's what motivates me to write. Most of the characters in these novels are failures, but they all try their best to face the darkness, weakness and illusion of the heart, trying to find courage and things worth holding on to in the changing world.
◆ Tigers and the City That Never Sleeps
Douban score: 7.6
Author: Chen Zhiwei
Publication year: 2019-12
short story
The moon fell on the surface of the water, was paved flat, and the whole river was the light of the moon. I felt that in this light, I even fell asleep.
The author's eyes hover over the edge of the refinery to observe a unique space that mixes Kafka's "Castle" with Joyce's "Dublin". On the industrial docks of the refinery, seeing the paralysis of life spreading continuously, the pungent sulphur smell can be smelled in the sea breeze... Moments like this make people feel "a burst of joy".
@Masaki Tahara: The eponymous piece is a universe of its own, clanging when it hits the spine, I run with the tiger, jumping lightly, flying, ensemble, and jumping to freedom with something difficult to name.
◆ Tiger! tiger!
Douban score: 8.6
Author: [English] Kipling
Publication year: 2014-6
Children's literature
Collection location of Hunan Library
Nothing new under the sun. What will happen is nothing more than the recurrence of the past years, but forget, and go back to the future.
Kipling won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1907 for his "ability to observe, novel imagination, eloquent ideas, and outstanding narrative talents", becoming the first British writer to receive this award. Tiger! tiger! "Fusion of fairy tales, novels, myths, essays, poetry and other artistic techniques in one furnace, reaching a new realm of different kinds, surpassing both fairy tales and animal stories.
@Welcome: The story is really interesting, I really like a few of them. I wish I had this book when I was a kid.
◆ Tiger comes for afternoon tea
Douban score: 9.0
Author: [English] Judith Kerr
Publication year: 2014-5
Picture books
There was a little girl named Sophie. One day, she was having afternoon tea with her mother in the kitchen. Suddenly, the doorbell rang. Mom said, "Who will it be?" An unexpected story happened— Sophie opened the door and saw that it was a furry spotted tiger! It was so hungry and thirsty, it seemed to be drinking afternoon tea with everyone...
@Love Autumn Family Tea Face Sauce: Gentle to the world, this tiger temporarily replaced Daddy.
◆ Fat tiger down the mountain
Douban score: 8.4
Author: Fujima
Published: 2021-12-27
The book contains 7 major chapters, including nearly 300 paintings from the Fat Tiger series from 2017 to 2021, including works and drawing tutorials that the author has never published. From the "fat and angry" fat tiger and the wild father and son daily life of the "shouting mother" tiger, to the "all things can be fat tiger" changeable standing painting, and then to the festival theme illustration, a book contains a huge amount of wonderful, worthy of all the "cloud sucking tiger" friends look forward to!
@Snow Fanio: In the new year, everyone should also have fun with the tiger!
◆ The silent tiger writes poetry
Douban score: 9.4
Author: [Ink] Monica Sepeda (author) / [Ink] Julian Cicero (painted)
Publication year: 2019-4
"When it comes to the sun, I feel less cold, and when it comes to bread, I'm hungrier." "Discourse"
Picture book of fairy tale poems from the mysterious South American continent. Whether it's a tiger writing poetry or a clam who wants to marry a squid, the brain-opening imagination takes you into the world of exotic children full of whimsy. Famous South American poets and illustrators work together, and a clear stream of picture book circles arrives in your eyes. - Poet Blue Blue
@smile: When I was young, my brother took a bucket of water and put it in the yard. He said, what if the moon falls. My brother was always good.
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