<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="1" >, what is the solution to the contradiction between ideal and reality? </h1>
In his account of the reasons why he wrote the "Three Biographies of the Giants", namely the biographies of Beethoven, Tolstoy and Michelangelo, Romain Roland revealed a phenomenon that has existed in all countries of secular society for thousands of years, that is, the contradiction between the urban sycophants of the surrounding environment and the idealistic young people.
When people are young, if the contradiction between ideal and reality is not resolved well, it is easy to become "angry youth", "waste firewood", or "exquisite egoist". If you read a book, you will find that on this issue, we are actually no different from the two hundred years ago that Beethoven lived, or the hundred years ago when Roman Rolland lived.
And this problem is not something you can escape by studying science and engineering, business, and medicine. There is no escape. And everyone's math books, economics books, and medical textbooks don't even teach how to look at these phenomena and how to solve problems. What solves the problem is literature.
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Roman Rolland spent his life trying to solve this problem with his pen. What is the solution given by Romain Roland? It's breathing the breath of a hero. Of course, this first defines what a hero is.
Romain Rolland said, "I am not a hero who is dominated by thought or strength; but a man who is great by heart." As if the greatest of them is what the man we are going to recount his career said: "I do not recognize any sign of superiority other than mercy." ”
But the hero was too lonely to find an ally, so the purpose of Roman Roland's subsequent life's writing was "to help them, I gathered around them a group of heroes' friends, a group of great hearts that suffered for goodness... In this way, we are not alone in battle, and the darkness of the world is illuminated by the candlelight of God."
This kind of thinking of Roman Roland and Lu Xun's saying that "sometimes I still can't help but shout a few times, to comfort the warrior who is running in loneliness, so that he is not afraid of the front drive", is actually a truth.
It can be seen that this is a common dilemma - people want to progress, but seem to be limited by the social environment, and there are no like-minded friends, where is the way out?
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="14" > three, John Christophe mortal hero</h1>
Although 100 years have passed, such problems still exist, so Roman Roland's book is still worth reading.
To gain insight into what Roman Rowland calls heroism, you also have to know his most famous novel, John Christophe. The first half of this tome is actually a literary version of Beethoven's biography, telling the story of the rise of a spirited musical genius.
The middle part is actually the pursuit and life of a group of idealistic writers such as Romain Rolland in Europe. They are talented, ambitious, have youth and love, and have had a good material life, but they are not sophisticated, and from time to time they are involved in the struggle between right and wrong, making them physically and mentally exhausted, and finally have to escape from reality.
At the end of the book, Christophe is old, his lover has died, and a life of passion and struggle is far away. At this time, his spirit of resistance has completely disappeared, and even a generation gap has arisen with the people who filled his ideals. He doesn't ask about the world, and all his grievances are put into laughter.
Wouldn't everyone have a similar experience to Christophe? When I was young, I had ideals and finally had to return to reality.
However, Christophe is different from those who have gone through a lifetime of inaction, he has been constantly creating, adding bricks and tiles to the civilization of society.
Roman Roland actually injected duality into Christophe, both a hero and a mortal, who has had dreams and feelings, and has also made mistakes. This person is often full of contradictions in his heart, both fighting for ideals and love, and sometimes showing weakness and pain. After reading The work of Romain Rolland, the definition of hero has changed, that is, to return to mortals.
Two years after the publication of John Christophe, Roman Rowland won the Nobel Prize. Since then he has devoted himself to promoting humanitarianism and idealism.
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What is idealism? From the 15th century onwards, when Europeans began to care about the problems of reality and the present, they found that reality was not perfect.
Writers are divided into two kinds, one is to tell people where the problem is, of course, some of the problems they say are just their own speculations, they are critics;
Other writers, on the other hand, construct the perfect world in their minds, and you can think of them as suggesters. They are idealistic writers.
Mo Yan's "Red Sorghum Family" can be regarded as an idealistic work.
But if a person reads novels and TV series about workplace intrigues, or fictional counter-attack inspirational stories, it is inevitable to fall into a dead circle: from not getting to disappointment, from many disappointments to despair, and even more in despair.
There are different opinions on what the ideal society should look like, but on two points, the two groups of critics and advocates have a consensus. First, the ideal society should be positive; second, it does not advocate material desires for profit, but advocates a healthy and powerful life on the spiritual level, which includes the health of people and the health of society.
The Nobel Committee awarded Romain Rowland the 1915 Prize in Literature for the following reasons: "the noble ideals in literary works and the sympathy and love of truth with which he portrays various types of characters".
This is actually a good summary of the works of Roman Rolland and an interpretation of the literature of Nobel's understanding.
The mind is the driving force that guides life upwards, and the source of its motivation lies in the deep thinking and high-dimensional wisdom left for us by predecessors. Do this and you are the hero.