It was a masterpiece that had been buried until Elon Musk inadvertently mentioned it to the media and was discovered and read again. The book tells the story of twelve adventurers who Musk would consider "awesome!" I am afraid that because I also share the same characteristics as the characters in the book: curiosity that never feeds, allowing my spirit to develop and influence reality, the adventurer is like a "missile penetrating the organic organization of society". Even the author's daughter thinks that if there were to be a few more people to the book, Musk would obviously be the first choice.
Like Musk, the author himself is from South Africa. His father was a Baptist pastor who moved his family to South Africa when Beausole was young. Beausole wanted to follow in his father's footsteps and become a priest, but the First World War began, he joined the army and went into battle, and then lost interest in God. In 1917, at the Battle of the Somme, he was sent as the only survivor to a Scottish hospital, where he met a group of poets and writers who encouraged him to become a writer.
Like Casanova, Beausole had a strong curiosity about all knowledge. In a short career of more than a decade, he wrote about Mussolini's dictatorship, wrote about wonderful murders, and from saxophones to collectors to chicago gangsters, Beausole's work was all-encompassing, and he wrote anything he was interested in.
Like many people in The Adventure against the Heavens, Beausole didn't have much time to enjoy his success. The book was a huge success in 1929 and became a bestseller upon publication. In 1930, Beausole died of appendicitis.
In the modern context of Chinese, it always seems that there is always a taste of lightness, and it is always somewhat related to those online novels. When I saw the title of "Adventure Against the Sky," I did feel a little uncomfortable. But when I started reading, I felt like I almost missed a work that suited my liking because of the title of the second grade book. The original title of the work was Tweet Against the Gods: The Story of Adventure, and the Chinese edition removed the fourth chapter of the original book, Muhammad, so only eleven people remained.
Beausole is also known as the contemporary Plutarch, perhaps because of this book. Plutarch's Biography of Greco-Roman Celebrities, also known as the Bilolist, provides a complete picture of the classical world and explores the ethical questions of right and wrong and how people should question and understand our world through typical characters.
Beausole also wrote this book in a contrasting way. There is one chapter for each character in the book, and two chapters for a comparison. But his contrast is not with similar characters, "there must be such a sharp contrast as black and white, in order to get rid of any seemingly reasonable or only superficially interesting differences and similarities to help us understand personality and life." ”
Since Beausole was not a professional historian, the reader will not be able to read much detailed historical narrative from here, but here is the life curve of a majestic and eloquent adventurer written by an adventurous essayist, who narrates the end of a series of adventures in a passionate classical style, expressing the tragedy of the demise of vitality in romance. In his works, the reader will see some of the prejudices of that era, which of course will be more prominent in the adventurers, and more importantly, the author also places the adventurers in the hands of an unfathomable psychological world and the difficult goddess of destiny to look at and pay tribute.