Qianjiang Evening News Hourly News Reporter Song Hao
There are countless books published every year, the sea of books is too wide, the time is too small - how to choose books has become a problem for every book lover.
Recently, "Good Books Have Come into the Eye" was published by Zhejiang People's Publishing House.
This book is a "book in the book" that reads books for people and chooses books for people. The author Lu Dunji accumulated ten years of efforts, roaming the sea of books, picking up lost pearls, washing out some good books that were either best-selling or forgotten, making a little comment, indicating the essence, and interspersing them into a series.
Lu Dunji graduated from the Department of Chinese of Hangzhou University in 1982 and received his Doctor of Literature degree from Zhejiang University in 2010 under the supervision of Jin Yong, who was a closed disciple of Jin Yong.
He is the author of "The Biography of Cao Juren" (co-authored), "Wind and Clouds - Essays on the Book of Han", "Jin Yong Novel Theory", "Renlong Wenhu - Chen Liang's Biography", "Good Books Will Always Be Resurrected" and so on.
He was once the director of the Institute of Literature of the Zhejiang Academy of Social Sciences, and he is also an old friend of the Qianjiang Evening News, especially readers who often read the "Late Tide" supplement, and he is certainly not unfamiliar with this name. The Chinese words of the book may have similar views to the article of the late tide, and the reader should not be surprised, he is the author.
Write a few points in two or three thousand words, read a good book in eight or nine minutes, and take everyone to taste the essence of reading together. Each text in the book is short and concise, humorous, and the bibliography covers everything from social politics to economic technology.
In addition, the article also writes that the author has seen and heard a lot in his life, from historical evidence to nostalgia for the deeds of his former teacher Mr. Jin Yong, laughing and scolding from above, and remembering the old times sincerely and movingly.
【Trying to turn the book】
What is a Good Book (Generational Order)
All people who love to read will face a question: what is a good book?
When I said this, some people may have asked: "Since we are all people who love to read, how can we not be clear about what a good book is?" You also underestimate people who love to read. I doubt you don't love to read at all! swindler! ”
And slow motion. There are indeed some things in the world that we usually think are quite clear, but when people ask, they are immediately confused, and they really can't say clearly. For example, we are all living people now, all have life. But if you are asked "what is life", can you say it accurately? Not only you, but also nobel laureates such as Schrödinger, may not necessarily say it accurately. Another example, we all live in time, but what is time? If it were me, there would be no answer except to take out my phone and click on the clock. Sometimes it is not easy to say clearly what you think you understand.
What is a good book? This question is certainly far less difficult than the first two. But to make it clear in a sentence or two is not easy.
At the beginning, I wrote my own preface to this second book of essays, and I intended to write about this question. The book was compiled for about a year. Wait until the compilation is finished, and then write the preface.
"A good book is a classic!" This is one of the most common answers. Of course, this answer is certainly correct. The works that have been selected by history, enduring and authoritative, such as the Four Books and Five Classics and the Four Great Classics in China, and in Europe, such as Homer's Epic and Shakespeare's plays, are certainly good books. Of course, it is true to say so, but the research of today's people will reveal in particular the process of establishing the classics, thus proving that the classics are not naturally generated and often change. This is actually revealing the non-classical nature of the classic from another perspective.
Another common answer is that good books are only for the reader himself. Good books for me! Other people's standards are none of my business. People think honey, I think arsenic. It's normal, each with its own interests. Of course, this answer cannot be said to be completely wrong, but it denies the commonality of human beings and society, and obviously goes astray.
To answer this question today, we have to consider more or less scientific, in short, to try to get rid of personal perspectives, it is best to have measurable clear standards, reduce ambiguity. This is a basic requirement of the scientific age in which we live.
In this sense, the answer I tried to give to "what is a good book" is that a good book is all books that are higher than "myself".
This is defined in terms of the meaning of learning. Reading books, if it is regarded as an activity to learn knowledge and improve my cognitive level, then books that are higher than mine are good books for me. And their own level, they should be relatively clear. Any book, turn over a few pages, first do not comment on whether it is good or not, only ask whether its level is higher than "I", "I" is not worth reading, there will be a clearer answer in my heart. Of course, I can't understand it at all, for example, for me, advanced mathematics, theoretical physics, etc., but I know that its level is indeed higher than mine.
Moreover, using this standard, we can also answer the question of "why good books are changing" can also be answered. The reason is very simple, for a teenager, there are too many good books in the world. But when you are thirty or forty years old, your vision is getting wider and you know more, good books will naturally go down. Just like Guo Jing, after studying the Nine Yin True Scriptures and seeing a copy of the Yue Nu Sword Spectrum, he would probably not be excited anymore.
Of course, the above only gives the answer to the question from one aspect. Today, in the subway, bus or in such noisy and chaotic occasions, we often see people looking at their mobile phones and looking mesmerized and hungry. Some of them are actually reading books, of course, most of them are reading online literature. At this time, can you say that those online literatures are not good books for them?
This reveals another dimension of good books – they are good books that entertain readers. As for whether this kind of entertainment has led to the abandonment of the right thing, whether the plaything has lost its mind, that is another question, which will not be discussed here.
If a book is both higher than mine and makes me very happy to read, it should be a good book for both grace and custom!
Some people will say that there don't seem to be many good books like that. However, in fact, there are many good books like that. Not only a lot, but more and more, as I felt: "Good books are coming into the eye!" ”
Why are there more and more good books today? I also thought about it for a long time before I realized that in today's highly complex modern society, all kinds of progress are superimposed by small collections of progress, and it is difficult to find a decisive discovery that is simple and determined. But because of this, specific and micro-discoveries have sprung up. It seems that it is time to change our view of progress and at the same time a good view of books!
The books I write in this reading essay are undoubtedly good books, and most of them are relatively new and good books. In the information age, society is moving thousands of miles a day, and if you blindly read old good books today, it is inevitable that it will be too boring.
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