Text/Starry Sky Wan'er
"Letter from a Strange Woman" is a masterpiece by the Austrian writer Zweig, which uses the perspective of the heroine throughout the work and tells a mournful and moving story. A strange woman, at the last moment of her life, wrote a letter to the man she had loved all her life. The letter tells the story of the bits and pieces between them, although brief, but it makes this woman unforgettable.
On the man's 41st birthday, he received this letter without signature and address, and after reading this letter, he could not calm down for a long time. A woman bore him a child, but he couldn't even remember who this woman was.
Zweig vividly describes the story of this crush with delicate brushstrokes, because of this crush, the woman has spent her life to love. After a few brief pleasures, the woman bore him a child. Forced to make a living, in order to make a better life for their children, women can only become the mistresses of others. Zweig is a writer I like very much, and sometimes I even wonder, how can a male writer have such delicate emotions?
Gorky commented that the novel was "truly an amazing masterpiece." ”
In 2005, this work was made into a movie by Xu Jinglei, starring Xu Jinglei and Jiang Wen. The film also won the Best Director Award, the Golden Shell Award, and the 25th Golden Rooster Award for Best Cinematography and Best Fine Art at the San Sebastian Film Festival in Spain.
<h1 style="text-align: center;">01 storyline</h1>
18 years ago, the writer moved next door to a girl, the girl was 13 years old, from the first time she met the writer, the girl has fallen in love with this personable writer, she is immersed in her crush, unable to extricate herself.
The first encounter, the first time I saw her, Mr. R gave her a peach blossom, so she guarded this peach blossom in the same place for a lifetime, guarding love, guarding lovesickness, and loneliness in the depths of her heart.
They were neighbors for 2 years and it was the happiest time for girls. The girl looks forward to looking at the writer from a distance every day, once, the girl's life is like a fiction, until this moment, the girl has a new hope.
Then the girl moved, and it was 3 years. For more than 1,000 days and nights, the girl guarded her inner crush and looked forward to a reunion. Finally, when the girl was 18 years old, they were reunited. The girl dedicated her first night to the writer, but the writer had long forgotten that it was the girl next door who had given the flowers herself.
The writer said that there was something to leave, and this parting was not heard from again. The girl found out she was pregnant, and out of love she gave birth to the child. Later, forced by life, she became a dusty woman, displaced from the upper males, because they could give their children a good education.
But the girl only accepts the identity of the lover, not the wife of anyone. She only hopes that when they meet again in the future, she will still be free.
A few years later, the girl and the writer reunited, and the writer took the initiative to flirt with the girl, and the girl was ecstatic. Unexpectedly, after a night of "clouds and rain", the writer secretly stuffed some money for the girl as a fee. It turned out that the writer had once again forgotten her, and even regarded her as a dust woman.
After a few years, the child died of typhoid fever, and the girl fell into despair, and died at the age of 24. She wrote her story into a letter and sent it to the writer.
The whole process is the girl's wishful thinking, she lives in the beautiful bubble she weaves, she falls in love with love, she falls in love with the taste of crush.
It reads: "I am always nervous for you, trembling for you; but you feel nothing about it, just as you have a pocket watch in your pocket, and you have no feeling for its tight clockwork; this clockwork is secretly and patiently counting your hours for you, counting your time, accompanying you in its inaudible heartbeat, and you have only once glanced at it in its ticking millions of seconds." ”
<h1 style="text-align: center;">02 Character Psychology</h1>
Thirteen years, only to wait for your appearance, because of your appearance, her messy life became meaningful; two years as neighbors, she only waited for you to come home, at that moment to watch you from afar; three years after leaving, just to be able to reunite with you, for this reason, she refused to associate with all the outside world; finally, you were reunited, finally, she became your woman, but you forgot again and again; a few years later, in order to live, she became a mistress of others, she refused all possible happy marriages, Just to keep a free body for you, waiting for your call at any time; finally, you have called, she is desperate, and you still seduce her, the mother of your child, as a strange woman.
Reunite again and again, and you, again and again, forget, or say, you never remember her, even if she is the mother of your child! Even your housekeeper can remember this woman, and you, every time, just seduce her as a strange woman, what an ironic scene, what a helpless ending! You even think of her as a fireworks woman, a woman who can buy happiness with money. What kind of insult is that when you sneak money into her pocket?
At the age of twenty-four, at the age of this flower season, she was called by death because your children had been cruelly taken away by death; the only thing she had done in this short life was to love you. Spend your whole life loving you, and you, unaware of it. Spend your whole life loving you, and you, always forget; spend your whole life loving you, and you, just treat her like a stranger; spend your whole life loving you, and you, lingering in the flowers, she is just one of the people you pick.
You are the only beauty for her, the only sustenance in life, the faith of a lifetime; and she is nothing more than a passing cloud for you. She is just a woman you have never remembered, even if you have been in a few relationships, you have forgotten forever, and every reunion is a strange beginning; you are the father of her cherished child to her, and she is only a stranger to you, a stranger you have seduced three times and twice.
In fact, your heart is good, after she conceives your child, as long as she tells you, you will definitely treat her well, for this, she never doubts; but she does not want this love to have a trace of worldliness, she does not want your life to have a little entanglement, let alone you have any bad feelings for her. So, she chose to have this child alone.
In order to give your child the best education, in order for him to live a princely life, she is with many people who can give her this kind of life; but she never chooses marriage, she has always rejected that stability, not that she likes to drift, but only to keep the free body for you, waiting for your call at any time; as long as you call, she abandons the wonderful mistress who treats her around her, and so she follows you without mercy, but you still do not recognize her.
For your soul, whether it is separated by countless mountains and valleys, or in your eyes only a line of separation, it is actually the same distance.
<h1 style="text-align: center;" > conclusion</h1>
Loving you all our lives is a shocking love, a love that we all yearn for but are difficult to find in reality, and that's why we're drawn to this novel. In this materialistic world, the pure things without any power have been reduced, and the love that does not bow to any reality and sticks to lifelong love is even more precious; but all of us are looking forward to, yearning, yearning for the pure land of the soul, looking forward to the existence of such a pure land forever! Leave a consolation for the soul, leave yourself a space!
About the author: Starry Sky Wan'er, the author of today's headlines, the winner of the Qingyun Project, a Chinese language person who loves to read and travel, graduated from Central China Normal University, with the motto: Love can withstand the long years. I hope that I can meet friends in Literature and welcome everyone to talk freely together.