The Three Masters Balzac, Dickens, Leo Tolstoy

After reading

Good words and good sentences: untamed, grasping, tepid, weak, nameless, green clouds, colorful, sentimental, radiant, absorbing, unchanging, unscrupulous, ambitious, erratic, undistracted, panicked, flattering, beautiful, enchanted, passionate.

The temper of this adventurer in the world is not imparted to Balzac in inky black letters between legends and anecdotes, but is colorful, through his hungry senses, seeping into his personal life, through the reality of a thousand colorful memories, filling the world into which no one has yet stepped into his heart.

At this moment there are two other conquerors of the world resting in two other places, one in Königsberg, who has eliminated the chaos and turmoil of the world in one order, and the other in Weimar, the world he has as a poet, not necessarily inferior to what Napoleon had by the army. Balzac began to write, but unlike others, he did not write for the sake of wealth, not for entertainment, nor for filling a bookshelf and becoming a talking point in the streets and alleys, he longed not for a marshal's scepter in the text, but for the emperor of the emperor, and now he has a majestic ambition, aimed at the whole, with the fanatical greed of the giant spirit, contempt for the individual, individual phenomena, individual fragmented parts, bent on grasping things that hover in strong fluctuations. Peeping into the operation of the mysterious gears propelled by primitive instincts, refining the pure elements from the turbid and inferior wine of everything in the world, removing the total number of chaotic numbers, seeking harmony from the noisy noise, extracting the essence from the colorful life, squeezing the world back into the distillation bottle, in short, creating another world, this is his purpose.

Appreciation: In this book, Zweig, the author of this book, carefully analyzes Balzac, Dickens, Leo Tolstoy, three literary giants. In the preface, the author compares it with Gothic, Tolstoy, Victor, and Hugo, who are also stars in the literary world, but Zweig believes that there is a difference between the author of a novel and a novelist, but he does not deny the works of the remaining literary giants, and even some works exceed some of the works of the "Three Masters".

Another valuable point of this book lies in the background of the writing of this book, Zweigog spent ten years to write this book, but the time was in the first middle of the world war, faithful, at that time when the hostile atmosphere of various countries was strong, Zweig was able to fairly and rationally evaluate and praise the three enemy writers, which shows that he is impartial.

Third, and most importantly, is the most extensive description in the book. In just a few tens of pages, Zweig accurately, accurately, and beautifully describes the life, appearance, and mental journey of a giant, which is one of the important reasons for the success of this book. In the different descriptions of the three masters, Zweig also has a unique vision, he is good at analyzing the situation at that time, ethnic relations, social conflicts on them, analysis of the superiority of the three masters and their similarities and differences between each other, which is undoubtedly a huge requirement for the author, but Zweig he did, it is he who made this book, but also let more people understand the three masters, but also know Zweig.