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Portrait of Dowling Gray
Reasons for recommendation
"How sad! I will get old, but this painting will always be young... If only it could be reversed! If it's me who is always young, and it's painting that gets older, how nice it would be! For this, I would like to give up everything I have in this world! I would like to exchange my soul for it! ”
Born a beautiful teenager, Dowling Gray saw the portrait painted by the painter Howard, found his own amazing beauty, and listened to Sir Henry's boasting, began to feel pain for his own shaohua is easy to die, beauty is difficult to endure for a long time, expressing the hope that the portrait can replace himself with the burden of years and soul, and let himself always maintain his youth and beauty. His wish to think of wrong was later inexplicably granted, and he began to squander his sins, and finally the portrait became evidence of the evil deeds, and he lived and died because of the portrait. As described at the end of the book, "They entered the house and found a glorious portrait of their master hanging on the wall, miraculously maintaining the ultimate youth and beauty, as they had last seen him." On the floor lay a corpse, dressed in an evening gown with a knife inserted in the heart. He described it as withered, wrinkled, and abominable. It wasn't until they looked at the ring on the deceased's hand that they recognized who it was. ”
The publication of Portrait of Dowling Gray in 1891 caused a great uproar and was violently attacked by the media. Wilde also became acquainted with Sir Alfrey Douglas that year, and his tragic fate began. The influence of Wilde's works in China, the architect Mr. Wang Dahong translated "Portrait of Dowling Gray" into "Du Liankui", and the scene was also transformed into the Taipei of that time.
"Portrait of Dowling Gray" is a masterpiece of aestheticism at the end of the 19th century, which can be called the three best of the "art for art's sake" trend in drama fiction and painting. The beautiful rhetoric and brilliant imagery in this work are attached to perverted characters and absurd plots, so they have long been misunderstood, but in fact, the book has another true meaning.
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Sakhalin's Travels
Reasons for recommendation
A classic of Russian-Soviet literature and one of Chekhov's most important works. In 1890, Chekhov set off from Moscow to The Island of Sakhalin with the aim of learning about local life and the fate of the locals. He conducted a detailed population survey on Sakhalin Island and learned about the family, labor, ideology and so on of the local population. Upon his return, he wrote Sakhalin's Travels, published in 1895. The book integrates a variety of depictions, arguments, and lyrics, includes a wealth of first-hand and second-hand materials, and creates many vivid and plump characters, expressing the writer's deep sympathy for the hard life of ordinary local people. Not only that, but the experience of Sakhalin Also healed Chekhov's spiritual crisis and brought him and more Russian intellectuals a new view of society and life. After this trip, Chekhov decided to "live among the people".
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Existentialism is a Humanitarianism
Reasons for recommendation
Existentialism is a philosophical school of modern Western philosophy that has a great influence, is extremely popular, and is popular. Its main representative is the French philosopher Sartre. The book consists of two parts: "Existentialism is a Humanism" and "Today's Hope: A Conversation with Sartre." The former, published in 1946 and the latter shortly before his death in 1980, repeatedly emphasized that his existentialism was essentially a philosophy of optimism that was hopeful about life.