I don't know when, "wife is good for others, son is good for family" has become a mantra, and from time to time it can be upgraded to a colloquialism.
After searching, there is an example sentence on the Internet that is from Lao She's "Drum Book Artist":
—" The writer laughed. 'Wife is always good. He said honestly, 'Articles are their own good.' I can't write badly, but writing a script is a headache'. ”——
Why is "the wife good for others"?
There are many answers.
Recently, "The World of Man" was popular, and in the original novel, Bingkun specially picked up the books that his brothers had read in his spare time, and the book was called "What to Do?" 》。
The author of the book is the Russian writer Chernyshevsky.
When it was adapted into a TV series, it did not show Bingkun reading this book, bingkun read a Soviet political treatise.
So, why did Liang Xiaosheng deliberately arrange for Bingkun to read "What to Do?" 》？
What to do? This novel, which is relatively rarely mentioned among Chinese readers, although the author has heard of it, but has never read it, vaguely remembers that there is a similar book at home, and went to look for it, but it is Herzen's "Whose Sin?" 》。 I was impressed that the two books were very similar, so I risked the epidemic and returned the book to mail order.
But in Liang Xiaosheng's recollection, he mentioned "What to do?" many times. 》。
One of the facts we learned from this is that Liang Xiaosheng's reading volume is quite large, and this also ensures that he will "write like a god" in his literary creation in the future.
Liang Xiaosheng knew Chernyshevsky in middle school. During the Cultural Revolution, he graduated from middle school, he had not yet gone to the mountains and the countryside, he had nothing to do at home, there was a tattered next door, and a cart of old books that were sold as four olds was collected, Liang Xiaosheng was like a treasure, when he saw such books, he took the sheep by the hand, and then did not symbolically give a two-corner triangle, and took it home. In this kind of book, there is "What to do?" 》。
In the TV drama version of "The World of Man", before Bingyi went to the countryside, he handed over a box of books to Bingkun for safekeeping, according to the people in the play, there were sixty-one books, and in the lens, there was a stack of books, and we can see that there was a copy of "What to Do?" by the People's Literature Publishing House. 》。
Is it just that the props in the TV series are real?
The author went to check it out, and the "What to Do?" published by the People's Literature Publishing House that year. But there are two volumes, like the one that appears in the camera, "What to Do?" Hardcover books should not be the real books of the year.
The book in the lens should be made by the prop maker in the play.
Bingkun read "What to Do?" It was the time when he was mentally confused.
At that time, he had already met Zheng Juan, and the original calm heart was made of Zheng Juan's sexy temperament.
What to do? The title of such a book can reflect his inner difficulties, and at this moment, Bingkun is also facing a major choice in life.
Do you give up Zheng Juan, or do you insist on chasing after her?
Look at how in the novel, how bingkun is depicted reading "What to do?" The mindset:
And the reason why he chose "What to Do?" It is because I heard my brothers and sisters say that this book was written by Chernyshevsky in prison, and it is the most unromantic romance novel written, and it is also the most unpopular and important novel in the history of Russian literature. This aroused his greater curiosity.
In the morning, Bingkun lay on the kang and watched "What to Do?" 》。 The book was indeed difficult to attract him, but it was not too boring to read at all. He watched with great calmness, imagining himself from time to time as Lopkhov and Vera as Zheng Juan, and the imagination that was difficult to exclude made him both calm and enjoyable. ——
Bingkun imagined herself as Lopkhov and Vera as Zheng Juan.
In the novel, Vera comes from a small family of citizens, her parents are vulgar and snobbish, and Vera can't stand the dreary atmosphere of the family, especially disgusted by the arranged marriage arranged for her by her mother.
Just when she was at a loss, a tutor who tutored her brother with her brother's homework came to the house, which suddenly gave Vera hope of leaving the family.
After that, Vera bravely broke through the confinement of the family, flew far away with Röpfhoff, and married privately.
If the plot gets here, it is just a most cheesy romance novel, "What to do?" The novelty of "" is that after Robbov married Vera, he found that his wife was in love with his friend again, and the time had come to truly test the spiritual quality of men and husbands.
After much deliberation, Ropphoff decides to leave his wife, so he devises a fake suicide scene and fades out of Vera's life, thus fulfilling Vera's love.
Later, When Ropphof went into anonymity, he returned to his hometown under a pseudonym and saw his ex-wife, who had become someone else's wife.
Röpphof gave up his happiness, and he himself got the love of a rich man's daughter.
The end of the novel is good. With his current wife, Ropphoff lives on the same land as his ex-wife Vera, maintaining close contact and living a happy life.
What to do? From the surface emotional level, it forges a classic plot routine: it is the solution of the problem of love triangle.
The method of disposition provided in the novel is that one of them resolutely withdraws out of love, and sets up a death illusion, so that the spouse can complete her emotional satisfaction without guilt.
Such a plot, are we familiar with each other?
The spirit of sacrifice in love is reflected in The Body of Ropukhov.
When Bingkun in "The World" thinks of himself as Ropphoff, it is precisely because he thinks of his Vera, that is, Zheng Juan.
Bingkun is thinking about how to make Zheng Juan happy.
What to do? When Ropukhov first met Vera, Vera already had a playboy chasing her, but Ropukhov resolutely took Vera out of her bitter sea and had their love together.
No doubt, once Ropphov realized vera's disgust for her real-life environment, he did not hesitate to play the role of a savior.
Later, of course, when He saw that his wife had another love and that the love he had given to Vera in the past included more condescending elements, he realized that his love with Vera was not an equal relationship, so he withdrew and chose to leave.
This kind of higher-level love of the Ropphof style naturally does not exist in Bingkun.
But "What to Do?" The good motives of Ropphoff, who has always put Vera's happiness first, undoubtedly give Bingkun spiritual guidance.
It's "What to Do?" " taught Bingkun "what to do".
Russian literature gave Bingkun the spiritual enlightenment, so that he had no remorse for Zheng Juan's love and had no distractions.
This is also Liang Xiaosheng's arrangement in "The World of Man" for Bingkun to read "What to Do?" The reason for this.
What to do? It is written that after The marriage of Ropphov and Vera, Vera made a special condition, that is, the husband and wife slept in separate rooms, and the two people were not allowed to enter each other's rooms without permission. When you meet, you must dress neatly, as if you were a guest.
Judging from the information provided in the novel, although Lophof and Vera have gone through the marriage formalities at this time, it is actually a Platonic relationship.
Their love is more of a spiritual love than a physical contact.
Vera, the girl, was still quite cute, at that time, but only about twenty years old, the girl at this time, there is still a little ignorance of sex, so she is about three chapters of her husband, it can also be regarded as a kind of "savage girlfriend" of the ingenious marriage practice.
Undoubtedly, Vera's way of marriage is unique in the world, which naturally arouses the doubts of others.
The landlord who borrowed the residence did not understand the couple, how could it be so strange?
Vera gave an explanation: "I don't want him to see my dirty face in a cape... Even others don't want them to see me in a mess, and since I'm the husband who loves me the most, I shouldn't let him see me dirty. ”
So the landlord sighed, "It's like the truth... Why is the wife a good person? Because when you see them, they are always dressed neatly, and when you look back at your wife, she is a mess. ”
Indeed, there is a big reason why "the wife is good for others", which is that I don't know the situation behind other people's wives.
This can't help but remind people of the Korean TV series "What Is Love".
A small couple in the play lives together, facing a trivial, extremely mediocre life, in which the wife complains about her husband, there is Baba on the underwear, such a bleak and realistic life, how much love romance can there be?
Therefore, the seven-year itch of marriage is because the "dirty and dirty" that cannot be hidden after getting along day and night has exceeded the limit of patience.
Why is the actor divorce rate high?
It is because they interpret only the most beautiful fur of life, and it is easy to be biased by the appearance in the lens, and they do not know the dirty form of the other party behind the person.
When they enter the circle of life from the show business, they must touch the dirty behind this glorious appearance. If there is not a little concentration to maintain emotions, then it will soon part ways.
Chernyshevsky's 1863 novel What to Do? When Bingkun read it, it was already around 1973, and the time difference between them reached 110 years. The novel gives Bingkun considerable lessons and teachings.
Here we say a digression, the habitual temperament of the characters in Russian novels, a hundred years ago, has reached a depth and height that can still enlighten the love choices of ordinary Chinese people a hundred years later, and in 1863, what kind of literary works were there in China at that time?
It can be said that the Chinese literature of that era was chaotic.
It was not until 1918 that we had the first vernacular novel in the modern sense written by Mr. Lu Xun.
One of the major breakthrough points in modern Chinese literature is the discovery of love.
This is also the love positioning and choice of Bingkun in "The World of Man", and he must also find enlightenment and enlightenment from the Russian novels of a hundred years ago.
Of course, What to do? " is a revolutionary novel, the love plot in it, is just the author's blindfold, but can not help but say, "What to do?" The love depiction in "" still has a fierce, kind, and fresh taste.
What to do? The theme and love positioning in ", later we see a more explicit existence in Soviet novels.
In this sense, the Soviet novel is a new interpretation of the Russian novel tradition, and its value will be evaluated more scientifically and rationally with the re-examination and positioning of Russian culture.
This is as Liang Xiaosheng declared: "Influenced by my brother, I greatly admired Soviet Russian literature, and still think that Soviet Russian literature is the greatest literature in the world." Contemporary Soviet literature not only inherits the Russian literary tradition, but also advances us in borrowing from Western modernist literature. Contemporary Soviet literature can clearly see the organic combination of realism and modernist literature. ”
This evaluation can be said to be quite high. And Liang Xiaosheng himself also practiced it, borrowing a number of Russian and Soviet novels in "The World of Man" to explain the psychological secrets of the characters. These include "What to Do?" And the Soviet novel The Brothers Of Yersov. These two works are the novels most closely related to the psychological mysteries of the characters in "The World of Man".