Author | Not interesting soul
Anchor | Fan Deng Reading · Children
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Good evening to all book lovers, welcome to the reading column "Encounter" produced by Fan Deng Reading.
There are two kinds of novelists in the world, one dedicated to reflecting the world and depicting life, such as Tolstoy;
The other, who single-handedly created a world, was Marquez.
Today, I would like to share with you the masterpiece of Nobel Prize winner Márquez, "One Hundred Years of Solitude".
Human sorrow and joy are not the same, but loneliness is the background of life.
The stories in "One Hundred Years of Solitude" are absurd and bizarre, with characters who have soared to heaven, magical prophecies, and contagious insomnia.
All in all, the story is magical.
Márquez disagreed, repeatedly stressing that his creations were realistic, and he even declared:
Reality is often more wonderful than fiction, the greatest writer is reality, and our task is to be as close to reality as possible, no matter how humble or in a way that tends to perfection.
As the saying goes, art originates from reality, but is higher than reality.
Great works are often like this, people can see reality from it, and they can also reflect on reality through their works.
There is no doubt that "One Hundred Years of Solitude" is such a great work.
After reading this book, I got these 5 points of inspiration for real life.
The loneliness of human beings is hopeless
There is a sentence in "One Hundred Years of Solitude" that deeply touched me:
All the splendor that has ever existed in life needs to be repaid with loneliness after all.
After the killing of the first generation of José Arcadio Buendía, he often saw the ghosts of the dead haunting him.
Fearful, he traveled with his wife and several companions, eventually to Macondo, beginning a century of family rise and fall.
When they first arrived in Macondo, they lived in isolation.
Except for the occasional gypsy bringing something new, the town exists so quietly.
The gypsies brought magnets, saw the magic of magnets, Buendia thought of using it to find gold, saw that a magnifying glass could make objects burn in the sun, and he thought of using it for war.
He was obsessed with these new inventions brought by the gypsies and wanted to change Macondo with them.
He led a group of people to cut through thorns and open roads, busy designing streets, planning new homes, and ensuring equal rights and interests for all.
He slept and forgot to eat, and he studied all day long, experimented all day, forgot the years, forgot everything.
However, no one around him could understand him, and they all thought that he was delusional and stubborn.
His wife did not feel that her husband was strong, but felt that he was not doing his job, and even disappointed him.
Finally, when he said that the earth was round, like an orange, the whole village was convinced that he had lost his mind.
Then one day, after the gypsies died, he became depressed and often went mad.
Ursula couldn't help it, so she tied him under a big tree.
From then on, he lived alone under this tree until he died, his head pecked empty by crows.
The life of José Arcadio Buendía was a lonely life, a lonely life, and the only person who could understand him was the gypsy.
So after the gypsy died, he went crazy.
Not only is he lonely, but every character in the book carries a sense of loneliness and has been fighting this loneliness all his life:
Colonel Aureliano, who spent his life fighting horses, and finally spent the rest of his life forging small goldfish in the golden house;
Amaranta was condemned by her conscience for the second half of her life because of her love for manslaughter, and finally died alone with regret;
Rebecca leaves her fiancé, murders her husband, and ends up in a cottage;
Because of her authoritarian mother, MeiMei was separated from the man she loved and gave birth to an illegitimate child, but she could only grow old alone in the convent.
In the face of loneliness, what can people do? Love?
Márquez wisely said:
Wherever you go, you should remember that the past is fake and that memory is an endless road.
All the spring of the past ceases to exist, and even the toughest and wildest love is, in the final analysis, a fleeting reality, only loneliness and eternity.
Since the individual is only an individual, loneliness is not separated from his life.
Death is the only truth
The story of "One Hundred Years of Solitude" ends with death.
Macondo after the disaster:
"This is the last vestige of the past, which has gradually declined but will not completely disappear.
Because it is an endless fall in itself, it moves closer to total destruction with each moment, but it can never reach the final end. ”
The last child of the Buendia family to grow a pig's tail was eaten to death by termites.
The small town of Macondo mysteriously disappeared, and even the people who were looking for prophecy in the parchment roll were erased by the hurricane and eradicated from the world's memory.
All this ends in death.
Everything will be forgotten in time.
If it has not been erased from the world's memory, it is only because it has not been long enough.
The novel tells the story of seven generations, which is equivalent to telling the death of seven generations, and even Ursula, who lived the longest, died in loneliness.
This is true in fiction, and even more so in reality.
Death, for everyone, is the final outcome.
Death is like a shadow, but every living person is fighting death, fighting against the invasion of death.
Because of this confrontation, life has a different meaning.
Tolstoy, as one of the greatest writers, still struggled bitterly in the face of death.
At that time, Tolstoy had completed the creation of "War and Peace" and "Anna Karenina", and was a world-renowned literary hero who lived a rich life envied by countless people.
But he couldn't see the meaning of life, so he had to watch out for himself hanging himself at all times.
A person, no matter what, is going to die, it is only a matter of time.
After the death of the gambling king He Hongshen in the first two years, it was revealed that he spent a lot of hundreds of millions of dollars in order to prolong his life.
He had money, and he used it to buy his life for a while, but death did not spare him.
There is a sentence in "One Hundred Years of Solitude":
Man does not die when he should die, but when he can.
Death is one of the themes of "One Hundred Years of Solitude", and it is also a theme that everyone cannot avoid in real life.
In 1982, Márquez won the Nobel Prize in Literature, and at the award ceremony, he said:
Nevertheless, in the face of oppression, plunder and discrimination, our answer is to live on.
No flood of beasts, pestilence, hunger, turmoil, or even centuries-old wars can diminish the superiority of life over death.
Since death is inevitable, how should life be spent?
Márquez also said: "I have been young, I have been depressed, I have lived happily, and I have always had a deep love for life. ”
Life, with a beginning and an end, is only a reincarnation after all.
Only when we understand death will we cherish the present more; only when we understand the meaning of death, can we understand the preciousness of life.
Fame and fortune are illusory
There is a story in "Zhuangzi":
One day, Zhuangzi was fishing in Pushui, and the King of Chu sent two ministers to invite him to be an official.
Zhuangzi took the fishing rod and said without replying:
"I heard that there was a sacred turtle in the Chu Kingdom, which was three thousand years old when it died, and the king wrapped it in exquisite cloth and put it in a box for the Zong Temple.
This sacred turtle, would it rather die in order to leave a skeleton and appear honorable? Or are you willing to live in the mud and crawl with your tail in the mud? ”
The minister said: "I would rather live in the mud and crawl with my tail in the mud." ”
Zhuangzi said, "Go back, I'd rather live in the mud with my tail in the mud." ”
In reality, people pursue fame and profit, people are bustling, profit is coming and going, but in Zhuangzi's view, this kind of thing is of no benefit, and even a kind of bondage.
After Colonel Aureliano launched the revolution, he became the most appealing and fighting national hero in people's minds.
He was brave and warlike, strategic, and his life was full of legends.
However, driven by power and honor, he began to become ruthless and gradually embarked on a journey to a tyrant and dictator.
When he returned to Macondo, he was accompanied by a group of guards, and even when he moved into the house, the guards had to search the rooms beforehand to make sure there was no danger.
Colonel Aureliano also issued a strict order not to allow anyone to walk within three meters of him, not even his mother.
He had a reputation as well as dangers, and he escaped many dangers in his life, including 14 assassinations, 71 ambushes and 1 shooting.
Finally, after being poisoned once, he began to reflect that he felt "divided, repeated, never felt so lonely."
He returned to Macondo, became obsessed with alchemy, and finally died alone.
There was also Colonel Aureliano's livestock family.
I don't know why, overnight, their rabbits were born everywhere, cows and mares gave birth to three at a time, hens lay eggs twice a day, and pigs grew fast.
In just a few years, he became one of the richest people in the local area.
There is more and more money, and they don't know how to spend it, in addition to the extravagant and eroded life, they are bored enough to paste bills all the walls of the house.
When a person has no money and no name, he craves fame and fortune.
But what really makes people live better is often not more and more money, nor more and more power, nor more and more famous reputation.
The real needs of human life are often simple.
But because of the outside culture, personal cognition, and desire for life, we feel that life needs a lot.
When a person desperately pursues fame and fortune, his life has been fiercely occupied by fame and fortune.
The essence of man is a mass of desire
There is a saying that people are paying for their desires all their lives.
What a man wants, he has to pay for it.
When Colonel Aureliano launched the revolution, he was paying for his desires.
Later, he became a hero admired by everyone and was assassinated, all because of human desires.
Because desire is there, people's behavior has a direction.
Shi Tie Sheng told the story of an old blind man and a little blind man in "Fate like a String".
The old blind man's master told him that if he seriously broke a thousand strings, he would get a prescription to cure his blind eyes.
The old blind bullet, when he was seventy years old, finally broke a thousand bullets.
He couldn't wait to find the prescription that the master said, but the prescription was just a blank piece of paper, and there was no such prescription.
The old blind man collapsed, and he was in great pain.
But he still told the little blind man that if he played well, he must play well, and if he had played enough twelve hundred, he would be able to get the prescription.
He misremembered, and wrote it down into a thousand.
The old blind man who learned the truth has been withering since then, and he died of desolation not long after.
Schopenhauer said:
The essence of man is a burning mass of desire.
Without this desire, man cannot live.
The first generation of Buendia killed people, tormented by fear and left, he wanted to rediscover a life without fear, which was desire.
In Macondo, you'll see a lot of novelties brought by gypsies.
He had many new desires, to find gold, to build a terrible war machine, to refine gold out of miscellaneous things.
These are all desires.
How everyone wants to live his life is also a desire, including wanting to live, which is a desire.
Desire is the essence of man, but desire has good and bad, some desires can make people better, some desires can drag people into the abyss.
What we can do is to try to be the masters of our own desires, rather than becoming slaves to all kinds of desires.
Reading and not reading life are different
Why did Márquez write such a wonderful book?
On the one hand, there is talent. On the other hand, it's reading and experiencing.
Naturally, talent does not need to be said, nor can it be said.
First of all, when Márquez was young, he lived with his grandparents.
His grandmother, a master of ghost stories, told ghost stories to paint colors.
Every day after six o'clock in the evening, Grandma forbade Márquez to run around the house.
Grandma told him that when the undead were frightened, they would come out scary.
If Márquez didn't listen, Grandma mysteriously said, "The aunt in the room over there is sleeping." He said while pointing to the empty room.
Or say in a vivid voice: "Your aunt hates disobedient children the most, and she will push them down, and your aunt is just behind you, don't you see it?" Is she smiling at you? ”
He went to the street with his grandmother, who said not to run around, and it was not certain which alley to run into, and you would be taken away by which dead ghost.
If a mourner passed by the door early in the morning, she quickly woke up Márquez, who was still sleeping, and asked him to sit up, because the undead would take away the soul of the lying child as a companion.
On the road to Hades, the newborn undead are most afraid of loneliness, and they like to find small children as companions.
There is a demon in the smell of sulfur, and black butterflies flying into the house will kill the people in the house, and they cannot sprinkle salt on the ground, otherwise it will bring bad luck.
"One Hundred Years of Solitude" is permeated with a lot of superstition, and I think it is influenced by my grandmother.
But that's all there is to it, and he still has to read.
When writing One Hundred Years of Solitude, Márquez often had to look up materials, so there were materials everywhere in the house.
When it comes to going to sea, he looks for articles by navigators;
Writing about alchemy, he studied the alchemist's articles;
Writing that the whole town of Macondo suffered from insomnia, he also went to look for it;
Colonel Aureliano Buendía went to war, and he went to look for books describing the war;
In order to distinguish the male and female of a shrimp and distinguish the quality of bananas, he went to check the information;
There is even a scene in which four children find a pile of gold coins and calculate their weight in order to confirm whether the four children can move 7214 ancient Spanish gold coins.
Lu Yao wrote "Ordinary World", flipping through the materials and erasing his fingerprints.
Without a lot of reading, no matter how rich a person's experience is, it is only one person's experience.
And the rise and fall of seven generations in the novel, many details need to be found from the book.
It's for writers, for us, books can change our perceptions, they can change our world.
If you don't read a book, the world you see will always have only one color.
There is a saying that people who do not read books are only a lifetime;
And the person who reads, every book, he is experiencing a different life, getting the energy he needs from different lives.
Loneliness, death, desire, fame and fortune, these are all necessary courses in life.
If you understand thoroughly, life will be comfortable, and if you can't understand it, you must continue to participate.
Really good books often don't tell you a truth directly.
But when different people read this book, they can often get different things, which triggers individuals to think about life and life.
Therefore, it is never better to listen to others than to read it yourself.
Because only when you read, you can really experience the joy of reading, listening to others, no matter how they say, it is someone else's.
Only what you really read truly belongs to you.
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