Today, after reading this book that earned me enough tears, the story unfolded in a light-hearted and ridiculous style, but it became heavier and heavier, and finally it was difficult to breathe. I really walked into this book to know that it is thick because it carries the chronic disease of history, reveals the ugliness of human nature, and shows the entanglement of demons in the heart.
The book was published in 2019 by Mecca, a contemporary writer and screenwriter. The Mai family's worldly success came when he was 40 years old, after "Decryption", "Dark Calculation", and "The Sound of the Wind". It is said that every successful writer has been immersed in suffering, and the pain of the Mai family's childhood experience is deeply rooted in the bone, which is why the portrayal of human nature in his works can be so powerful that it penetrates the back of the paper and enters the wood.
This "Life Sea" was published when the Mai family was 55 years old, and it was also three years after the death of his father. The father in the story, a taciturn, short-tempered man, concludes that lovers are an ability like physical strength, and some people are born with the love of muscle atrophy in this area, and his father belongs to this kind. I think that the father in the story and the father in reality are in the author's heart, I am afraid that they have long been merged into one, and the author has completed the dream that can never be realized in real life in the story, reconciled with the father, reconciled with himself, and finally completed a major leap in life.
If you don't understand the author, you don't understand the work. The author's life experience is to tear open the seal of the work and sneak into the backyard of the work, so that we can truly wander in the world of the work.
The story tells the legendary experience of "Jiang Zhengnan" in his life, this name is so strange, but the whole book is writing about this person, the reader follows the life experience of this legendary character sad, unworthy, heartbreaking, but this name appears in the whole book is countless, in the eyes of the villagers, he is just a eunuch, ridiculed, ridiculed, but every family has a problem, will look for him to get advice. That's human nature, they need you, but they still have to step on you.
How to take the foot that stepped on you in the past and remove it from the heart. It is the author's life topic and the purpose of the book.
Of course, what moved me even more was the story, which immersed me in it, forgot what life topics, the meaning of the purpose, and wantonly recalled this breathless story. Let those characters come back to my brain again: the old witch head, the old chief, the female tiger, the little blind man....... These are very affectionate nicknames. There is also the opening sentence "Life can not bear the lightness" this sentence deceived me how many tears, Father's love is like a mountain.
Life in the world, each has its own unsatisfactory, a sentence of life in the sea, who can not resonate. But too persistent life, I am afraid that it will also bring endless regrets to others.
After all, the grandfather who is full of morality and morality can't resist the demons in his heart, in fact, he is just too obsessed with the false name
Grandpa is a person who understands a lot of life principles and is always able to persuade others. But the demon in Grandpa's heart tormented him from time to time, making him sleep and eating. Finally, in the torment of day and night, in order to save the face of the family and his son, he reported to the public security bureau and arrested the colonel. The result of this incident directly led to the complete collapse of the family, and the face lost a fine light. All his life, Grandpa was only a cautious peasant, and he was also very upright, his character was not picky, but he could cling to his own demons and made a decision that he had lost his footing and hated for thousands of years. In the end, he hanged himself and committed suicide, his son carried guilt for a lifetime, and his grandsons ran away one by one and could not return home.
Really, to be decent, in the end, he was ruined and his family was destroyed.
The seemingly absurd old baochang, but he can best see the true nature of the human world
The old man is a ray of sunshine in the heavy tone of this book, and his presence always eases our mood. The villagers said that he had a vendetta against the colonel because the colonel slept with his woman. But at the scene of the Cultural Revolution's criticism, only he dared to say a fair word for the colonel.
The old chief was a man who had seen the world in the village, the one who knew the colonel best, and he was always talking crazy and saying some meat paragraphs on any occasion. But he is a person who has experienced the ups and downs of life, and he knows more about the cold and warm of the world, and the colonel is his nobleman, and they have achieved each other.
In the colonel's desolate life, the old baochang, his father, and Aunt Lin were a ray of light in life, allowing him to have a little peace in the chaotic world.
The taciturn father, waiting in the simplest way, interpreted the true meaning of love
Father was just an ordinary man, so ordinary that only "taciturn" was his characteristic, and he could not be found in the whole book to say a few words. The father defended the friendship in his own way, and could see clearly in the face of great right and wrong, but did not know how to express his emotions, so that the relationship between the father and the grandfather has been stiff. It is also the lack of proper communication between father and son that leads to Grandpa's demons.
But the loyalty and perseverance of the father's character are precious. He was more accustomed to expressing himself in action, helping the Colonel escape from the village and firmly supporting the Colonel. In the end, he used his own perseverance to hope to return the peace and health of his descendants.
The hero ends, the strong man who is crushed by fate
A traitor who was carved and insulted by Japanese women in his private parts, squatted in the Kuomintang prison, a rapist falsely accused by a woman who loved him, a eunuch who was laughed at by the villagers, a sodomite tortured by the Red Guards, betrayed by his brother's father, characterized by the public security as a traitor, and humiliated by the villagers at the public judgment meeting, and finally had a mental breakdown and went crazy.
A successful carpenter, a brother worthy of a lifetime, a soldier with a gunsmith, an anti-Japanese hero, a life-saving medic, a spy behind enemy lines, the backbone of the villagers, a strong man to be admired, and a man worthy of a lifetime.
The above is the same person, if you have not read this book, I am afraid that you will be insane. But it is such a person, living in the mortal world, experiencing such a ups and downs of life, still with the heart of a child to help the people around him, to help the little blind family, to see a doctor for the villagers, to help the villagers solve disputes, to keep secrets for the women who falsely accused him, to pay off gambling debts for the old security chief, to write a letter of understanding for the old witch who betrayed him... His kindness is probably a program written in his bones.
Fortunately, he was taken care of for the rest of his life and left this world quietly in bed.
The darkest and most vicious people in human nature, who specialize in spreading the virus on people's hearts, are demonic carnivals
Speaking of the little blind family, they are the best at manipulating people's hearts and the most hateful. The little blind man was originally a poor man, but he was born full of deception and malice, and such a father could instill in him what kind of three views. The little blind man accompanied the flies and ants in the gutter, and even in the village, he was the poorest family. The Colonel also helped their family a lot, but it was this family that brought disaster to the Colonel.
The little blind man who lives in the stinky mud ditch does not see the sun all day long, and his heart is shrouded in darkness, and all happiness is based on the pain of others.
It seems that their family has passed down the code to understand the hearts of others. It was in this way that the venom of the grandfather and the colonel could be planted in the hearts of the grandfather and the colonel. Grandpa was such a kind and gentle old man, because of that poison, making a wrong decision and ruining the whole family; what a hearted man the colonel was, because of that poison, he cut off the little blind man's tongue and picked his tendons; because of that poison, the father and grandfather completely severed the father-son relationship.
Even after many years of accepting the favor of "I", the little blind man still used that set of words to deceive people's hearts, almost poisoning his unique poison on my heart. Thanks to the Colonel's set of golden medical devices, my heart was relieved.
Some people, the heart is not hot, their existence is to make other people miserable. All we can do is stay away from the demons, farther away, so as not to be contaminated by their venom.
After reading the story, life is in the sea, and everyone has their own understanding. The author's childhood experience is the knot. Visiting the scene after the Wenchuan earthquake allowed him to redefine the relationship between himself and others, find a new meaning in life, and be liberated.
I think, that is the sentence: life is like the sea, ups and downs, suffering in life is the norm, and recognizing the essence and still living, that is the highest state of life.