Many times, when we can't stop thinking about a book, we often start from the beginning.
Some open your mind and make you surprised; some have picturesque beginnings that take you into the illusion of the book; some begin with straightforward reasoning that leaves you speechless...
Today for you to pick up the beginning of the novel God, look at which one, let you be moved?
The beginning of the brain hole
1. Lolita, the light of my life, the fire of my desires. My sin, my soul.
- Nabokov, Lolita
2. One morning, Gregor. Samsa awoke from an uneasy sleep and found herself lying in bed transformed into a giant beetle.
- Kafka's Metamorphosis
3. Today, Mom is dead. Maybe it was yesterday, I don't know. I received a telegram from the nursing home saying, "Mother is dead." Buried tomorrow. This is the subject of this notice. "That doesn't mean much. Probably died yesterday.
- Camus, The Outsider
4. Please find the family heirloom of the musty green copper incense burner, light a pot of agarwood crumbs, and listen to me tell the story of a pre-war Hong Kong. When you're done with this crumb, my story should be over.
——Zhang Ailing, "The First Burning Incense of Agarwood Crumbs"
5. You're about to start reading Italo Calvino's new novel, If on a Winter Night, a Traveler.
- Calvino, "If on a Winter Night, a Traveler"
Makes sense to leave you speechless at the beginning
6. When it comes to the general trend of the world, it will be united for a long time, and it will be divided for a long time.
——Luo Guanzhong, "Romance of the Three Kingdoms"
7. When it is false, it is true and false, and there is nothing to do.
——Cao Xueqin, "Dream of the Red Chamber"
8. It has become a universally recognized truth that all rich bachelors always want to marry a wife.
—Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
9. In the second year of college, there was a thermodynamics class, and the teacher said on the podium: "The world of the future is silver." ”
—— Wang Xiaobo, "The Silver Age"
10. Eliminate the completely impossible, and whatever remains, no matter how uncertain, no matter how unbelievable, must be the truth.
--Conan Doyle, "Four Signatures"
A beginning with a strong sense of time and space
11. Many years later, facing the firing squad, Colonel Aureliano Buendia will recall the distant afternoon when his father took him to see the ice.
- Márquez, "One Hundred Years of Solitude"
12. He was an old man fishing alone in a small boat in the Gulf Stream, and had been gone for eighty-four days and had not caught a single fish.
- Hemingway, The Old Man and the Sea
13. On the morning of the father's death, the frost and dew were thick, and the sun was like a broken yolk suspended behind the peaks of the Copper Ruler Mountain.
—— Su Tong, "My Imperial Career"
14. On the day king George V was coronated at Westminster Abbey In London, Billy Williams descended the mine in Aberrowingen, South Wales.
—Ken Follett, "The Fall of the Giants"
15. I am old, and one day, in the hall of a public place, a man came up to me. He introduced himself and said to me, "I know you and will always remember you." At that time, you were still very young, and everyone said you were beautiful. Now, I'm here to tell you, for me, I think you're more beautiful now than you were when you were younger, when you were a young woman, and I love your battered face now more than you did then.
- Duras, "Lover"
A picturesque beginning
16. Through the long tunnel of the prefectural border, there is the snow country. The night sky is white.
INTERVIEWER KAWABATA Yasunari, Snow Country
17. The cold wind is like a knife, using the earth as a cutting board and treating sentient beings as fish and meat. Thousands of miles of snow fly, turning the dome into an oven and melting everything into silver.
- Gu Long, "The Ruthless Sword of the Amorous Swordsman"
18. I am an old acquaintance of rain and snow, and I am ninety years old. The rain and snow look old to me, and I also look at them old.
- Chi Zijian, "The Right Bank of the Erguna River"
19. The dawn breaks, but the sky is still gloomy and dark. The clouds were heavy and the air was cold and humid, as if it were going to snow.
- Maugham, "The Chains of Human Nature"
20. When I was ten years younger than I am now, I got a casual career, going to the countryside to collect folk songs. Throughout the summer of that year, I was like a sparrow flying around, wandering in the fields of cottages filled with knowledge and sun.
—— Yu Hua, "Alive"
"The beginning of the story is always like this, just in time, caught off guard."
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Source: Essay notes
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