In the "Human World" TV series, it is mentioned that before Bingyi went to the countryside, he entrusted a wooden box containing sixty-one books to Bingkun.
These sixty-one books are not so much the books that the characters in the play like, but rather the books that Liang Xiaosheng likes.
In fact, the plot of this box of books is the real experience that happened to Liang Xiaosheng.
Liang Xiaosheng also reproduced the story of this box of books in "Year Rings" on Wang Xiaosong, who used himself as the prototype.
Book box in The Rings of The Year
The play mentions that this box of books contains Tolstoy's Resurrection.
And in "The World", surprisingly, the most mentioned book is "The Brothers of Yersov".
In "The World of Man", it is mentioned that the three brothers and sisters of the Zhou family have read books, such as "War and Peace", "Red and Black", "Quiet Don River", and "Les Misérables", but the most frequent appearance is a Soviet novel published in 1958, "The Yersov Brothers", is it strange?
Let's look at where the Brothers Of Yershof appeared in the original novel Of Men.
In the novel, it is written that in the early years of the Cultural Revolution, when Bingyi was still in the city, they gathered together to discuss literature and mentioned the Yersov Brothers.
Bingkun was in bed at the time, and saw Bingyi and Hao Dongmei reading the "Yersov Brothers" novel, and there were ears on the wall, Bingkun listened to part of the novel, so he also interjected and expressed his views on "The Yersov Brothers".
The Yershof family described in the "Yersov Brothers" has five brothers. The boss was the workshop leader in the steel factory, the second was killed in World War II, the third Stepan was captured in The Second World War, and in the case of last resort, he joined the puppet army supported by the Nazis, which was considered to be a stain on his body, the fourth is the protagonist in the novel, in the war, unyielding, in the era of peace, adhering to principles, reflecting the supremacy of human nature, is the key praise of the characters in the novel, the fifth is the theater manager, reflecting this dimension of the cultural field.
In "The World of Man", Bingkun sympathizes with the suffering of the old Three Stepan. In fact, in "The Brothers of Yershof", the old three Stepan also adopted a more tolerant attitude, although Stepan surrendered to the German army, but this is a helpless move under the invincibility, and the novel also emphasizes that he did not take up the gun to beat his own people, so after Stepan was sentenced to several years in prison, he was still released and had a job in the factory, but he always carried baggage and was mentally depressed.
This is a type of coward that often appears in Soviet literature. In the era when revolutionary literature was still authentic, there was no market for such figures, but as Soviet literature entered the stage of reflection, such figures were re-evaluated by writers, and cowards became the norm on the battlefield.
Late Soviet literature used such images to express anti-war complexes. For example, in Bondarev's "Hot Snow", a soldier who is afraid of his head and tail is used as the object of the novel, reflecting the tone of the "anti-war, fear of war" trend of Soviet literature in the last two decades of collective adherence.
But war cannot be ended by the wishful thinking of "anti-war" and "fear of war", and war must rely on heroism to complete the checks and balances on it.
The rise of "anti-war" literature in the late Soviet Union was nothing more than a lament for the imminent demise of the nation.
To this day, the Russian-Ukrainian conflict can still be seen as an aftermath and sequelae of the anti-war ideology that raged at the end of the Soviet Union.
In "On Earth", Bingkun, the third oldest in the family, sympathizes with the same change in the fate of the same old third steppan in "The Brothers of Yelshof" because of his capture, believing that his responsibility for being captured is not his own: "He was injured, lost the ability to fight, and thus became a prisoner, can he be blamed?" Is it a sin? His brothers and sisters-in-law ignored him, and even the girls who loved him were extremely indifferent to him, was this fair to him? ”
Maybe Bingkun did not finish reading the novel "The Brothers of Yersov" in its entirety, but when Bingyi discussed and read the novel aloud, they heard a little broken wall and picked up a little bit of leftover water, so the character experiences he learned in the novel were not accurate.
In fact, in "Brother Yersov", the real embarrassment of the third elder is not that he was captured, but that after he was captured, he did not show his due integrity, out of the consideration of the philosophy of escape, he joined the army supported by the Nazis, equivalent to the Wang pseudo-troops during our War of Resistance Against Japan.
And the girl he loved, when she used to be with him, was also a weak girl, but after being captured by the Nazis, she was brave and strong, and in the case of the enemy's questioning, she did not reveal a single secret, was disfigured by the brutal German army, lost her original beauty, and more cruelly, destroyed her internal organs, so that she no longer had fertility.
Compared with the two, the third in "The Brothers of Yelsov" is indeed a little disgraceful.
Bingkun interjected with this character in "The World of Man", which is really a little unclear.
Therefore, after hearing Bingkun's fallacy, Zhou Rong defended Bingkun a little: "I hope you can remember that my brother has a simple mind and loves to admit death, and he will say anything else to him in the future." ”
It is considered that Bingkun's erroneous remarks have been put to the past.
However, the image of the old three Stepan in "Brothers Yersov" impressed Bingkun too deeply, so for the second time in the novel, the plot and related characters in "Brothers Yersov" appeared.
That was When Bingkun came to Zheng Juan's house, when Zheng Juan refused the money sent by Bingkun and asked him not to come again, Bingkun had to withdraw and leave, and when he went out, Zheng Juan's brother Guangming, but he pulled Bingkun and knelt down on his knees, saying that he needed the help of others very much. When Bingkun saw this scene, he held the light in his arms, at this time, the novel wrote: "Zhou Bingkun actually thought of Stepan in "The Brothers of Yelsov", and thought of what he said when his brothers and sisters discussed the book--he felt as if even Stepan was hugged tightly by him. ”
It can be seen that the third elder in "The Brothers of Yelsov" left a deep impression on Bingkun. Stepan represents a kind of life that is powerless to control his own destiny, like a low life like a floating canopy, and has to allow the torrent of fate to jolt and throw him up and down everywhere, bingkun saw the light, immediately had a similar association, so the feeling of powerlessness he felt when reading the novel found a channel to vent in reality, and firmly had the intention of helping the Zheng family.
Because when he was listening to the novel "Brothers Yersov", he expressed strong sympathy for the old Three Stepan who was involuntarily captured, and this sympathy has always been accumulated in his heart, and in life, when he saw the Zheng Juan family, he felt that the Zheng Juan family, like Stepan, was powerless to control his own destiny.
This is also the reason why he is willing to pay for the help of the Zheng family.
The touch given to him in the novel finally gave him the opportunity to act in reality.
It can be seen that the novel "The Brothers of Yersov", in "The World of Man", is not an empty wind and a stroke, but a good match and refraction of Bingkun's heart to help the Zheng family out of danger, reflecting Bingkun's kindness, with a more profound literary enlightenment and support.
The book "The Brothers of Yersov" is mentioned again in "The World of Man", which is a novel that tends to maintain the image of Stalin after the reform and opening up of the description period, and can actually become a business card that draws closer to the cultural officials of the Soviet Union.
This is the third time that the novel "The World" mentions "The Brothers of Yershov".
In 1987, bingyi was serving as a deputy in the Agency for Cultural Affairs and met with Soviet officials who had formed sister cities.
In the novel, it is written: "Bingyi Russian is so good that he did not bring a translator at all, and he talked with the Cultural Envoys of the Soviet Union in fluent Russian about Pushkin, Tolstoy, Turgenev, Chekhov, Gorky and Mayakovsky, memorized fragments of "Quiet Don" and "Resurrection", and expressed his love for Soviet novels such as "Young Guards", "How Steel is Made", "Seven Days and Seven Nights", "The Brothers of Yersov" and won the unanimous favor and admiration of the guests.
From the list of these books, we can see the importance of the Yersov Brothers, and it is not an exaggeration to say that it is the leading work of soviet novels.
In the TV series "In the World", the book "The Brothers of Yersov" has become Zhou Rong's beloved object.
Zhou Rong said that she had three books in the box where Bingyi had collected books, namely "Three Hundred Poems of Tang Dynasty", "Anna Karenina", and "Brothers Yersov".
In the novel "Human World", it is not mentioned which book Zhou Rong has in the box.
Why did a man-looking "Brothers Yersov" become Zhou Rong's favorite?
The answer is actually quite simple. Because "The Brothers of Yelsov" tells the reason why a girl likes a man who is a generation older than her, it can be said that it is a good answer to Zhou Rong's psychological motivation to marry Feng Huacheng, who is eighteen or nineteen years older than her.
This point, our next detailed interpretation, is why Zhou Rong likes "The Yersov Brothers" so much?