#Reading #Share a wave of #My 2021 Book List#. 1. Kinkaku-ji Temple, Yukio Mishima. The legend of this book lies in the extreme delicacy and beauty of Yukio Mishima

#Reading # Share with you a wave of #My 2021 Book List#.

1. Kinkaku-ji Temple, Yukio Mishima.

The legend of this book lies in the fact that Yukio Mishima describes the inner world of a perfectionist with self-destructive tendencies in extremely delicate and beautiful language. Kinkaku-ji Temple is the symbol of all beauty in the male protagonist's mind, then if this beauty becomes more and more distant, if beauty can only set off its own ugliness, then it will destroy it, then it will destroy the Golden Pavilion. This is the protagonist's final answer. This book is placed first because it describes a contradiction that we are extremely reluctant to admit: on the one hand, we yearn for beauty, pursue beauty, and are paranoid about beauty, and on the other hand, we are eager to destroy beauty, because without beauty, there is no ugliness.

(Yukio Mishima's language is another of his major styles, the words are all picture sense, only the word 'beauty' can describe his writing.)

2. "Strong Wind Blowing", Miura Ziyuan.

"Do you like running?"

There are roughly three kinds of people in this world, the first two, nothing more than people who are suitable for running, and people who are not suitable for running, and the third kind of people, who are the most distressed people, that is, people who are "suitable for running, but can no longer run due to physical injuries". The book is about running from beginning to end, and all three of these people are written in it. On the surface, the main theme of the book is "running", but in fact it also discusses "meaning", is running to the end? Is running to be faster than others? Or is it enough to run up and have the feeling of a strong wind blowing across your face?

(Anime of the same name, Strong Amway, one of my two favorites in 2021, the other being Volleyball Boy)

3. One Hundred Years of Solitude, Márquez.

Long-standing reputation, in fact, I do not need to make more recommendations, because in the face of such a book, no evaluation can show its greatness. I've seen a lot of people say that this book is hard to read, and it is, I think it's probably because the names in it are so hard to distinguish. Share a little trick, take out a notebook, read a people and write it down, and then write it down as "Zhang San", and his descendants can remember it as "Zhang Si".

(In fact, this book is quite easy to read, the story is extremely rich, and the depiction is quite wonderful)

4. "Camel Xiangzi", Lao She.

It is also about the suffering life of a small person in the context of the big era, and unlike Yu Hua's "Alive" and "Xu Sanguan Selling Blood", Lao She's Xiangzi has never been able to achieve "reconciliation". He just sank under the blows of life, step by step, until he became exactly the same person he once hated. How to destroy a "young man with ideals and ambitions", give him a little hope, and then hammer him to the bottom, and so on three times.

5. "Golden 梦乡", Kotaro Isaka.

Here comes a novel that "doesn't have to think about what great meaning this book really has, it's cool to read", it's coming. I started reading the 432-page book in the afternoon, and the next morning, I finished reading it. (In fact, this is not recommended, because it is inevitable that you will swallow dates.) But don't blame me, it's because the book is so readable! A man suddenly falls into crisis, and what wants to obliterate it is a huge institution and machine, who has no chance of winning, but finally escapes, all because "the gentle man will naturally be helped by the gentle man."

(A book of the ileum)

6. The Invisible City, Calvino.

People who like it like Calvino's poetic philosophy, and people who don't like it think the book is incomprehensible. The whole book revolves around dozens of invisible cities, what does it mean to us to be a city? What is the difference between cities? Calvino said that every city is a whole of memory, a whole of desire, a whole of speech symbols. Some ancient cities have been replaced, some modern cities hide a lot of dirt and potholes, or our memories of those cities are false. The reason why we hold those memories of the city in our hands and keep telling them is probably because it is nowhere to be found in reality.

7. "It's a Pity That No Life Is", Yu Hua.

A collection of essays.

Yu Hua's works, which are well known to everyone, are largely novels, and unlike all other contemporary writers, his novels are full of "absurdity" and "violence" (especially early works), and at the same time, his works do not seem to have a "local root". (In general, reading the works of other writers, you can clearly feel that his writing, style, and character dialogue have obvious regional colors), so I have always been curious about what Yu Hua's life outside of writing is like.

This book gave me the answer.

(Simple and humorous, this is how I feel after reading it)

8. "Absolute Scream", Ye Zhenzhongxian.

Last month recommended, you can see the previous Weibo in detail, which will not be repeated here.

It's not really that I'm lazy, but this book will! beard! put! enter! year! degree! book! single! village!

(From the idea, to the logic, to the writing technique, to the degree of astonishment, it is the best mystery novel I have read this year.) ）

(Also recommend "The Thirteen Steps that Disappeared")

9. "When You Fly Like a Bird to Your Mountain," Tara Westford.

In fact, I heard about this book last year, but I only read it this year.

This book is the author's confession, the first half of her life, the story of how she came out of the twisted original family step by step. To some extent, none of us can get rid of the influence of the original family, we are bound to fall into extreme pain at some point in our lives, many people say to be independent and self-reliant, but who can not understand the truth? This book gives a practical answer and case study, and if you want to be truly independent, you can only rely on two words: education.