I am a wandering soul and you are the one who reads me

Movie "Weeping Prairie"

Wu Bai has a poetry collection "I am a wandering soul on the street and you are the one who smells me.". The title, like his song, is romantic, psychedelic, and supernatural. Wu Bai is also an ordinary reader, and he once used "romantic psychedelic" to describe his feelings about reading Shi Jingqian's works.

What is a superstar is not necessarily the top stream, but its human works are exemplary, and the works have lasting vitality. Wu Bai is a superstar in music, and Shi Jingqian and Günzburg are all superstars of history.

Shi Jingqian's "The Death of Wang" and Günzburg's "Cheese and Maggots" are both works that "see the big with the small". Forty-five years ago, the classic "Cheese and Maggots", together with "Montayu" and "The Return of Martin Gale", is regarded as the three masterpieces of microhistory.

A person's name needs to be controversial enough, or enough to be discredited. History is also partial to heroes, so the grand view of heroic history seems to be enduring. And the ordinary such as you and me, those marginal figures, waiting for the fate is to become the wandering soul of history, drowned in the torrent of history. Therefore, when historians salvage marginal figures and value "those who are persecuted and conquered", the reader will have a sense of self-sufficiency.

A marginal figure, a village, an insignificant event can be the cut in the social, religious, and cultural of that era. Ideal Jun initiated the topic of seeing micro-knowledge works in Douban, and many forwards and collections. However, as Teacher Li Kang said: "The formulation of the question is bound to cause a variety of replies, but it is not bad, and it is not a serious and rigid objective closed-book exam." It is conceivable that the third and fourth generations of the French Almanac, the Italian microhistory, the history of daily life in Germany, the anthropologically influenced social and cultural history of the United States, some 'bottom-up' social histories in Britain, most oral histories, popular non-fiction documentary writing, salvaged national history 'corners' or 'dark side' works, will be nominated. ”

It is not a serious and rigid objective closed-book examination, so the ideal jun screened and sorted out this list of books with little knowledge. The first half is foreign, and the second half involves China.

Which of these works have you read? Welcome to leave a message to recommend one or two works that have been read or known! We'll pick three of them and send Them Cheese and Maggots or Night Battles.

01. Cheese and Maggots

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02. "Montayu"

03. The Return of Martin Gale

04. "Misdeeds"

05. Vermeer's Hat

06. "The Slayer of the Cat"

07. The Business of the Enlightenment

08. "The Power to Inherit"

09. "Sunday in Bouvin"

10. The Walker's Trick

11. The Faithful Executioner

12. The Massacre of St. Bartholomew

13. The Carnival of Loman

14. The Headhunter of the Ellongo

15. Battle at Night

16. Street Corner Society

17. The Kingdom of the Sidewalk

18. The Children of Sanchez

19. "Calling the Soul"

20. The Death of Wang

21. "Dream Awakening"

22. The Curse of the Missionary

23. The Art of Domination

24. The Tea House

25. "Daming Under the Microscope"

26. The Emperor of the Northern Wei Dynasty on Black Felt

27. The Death of a Princess

28. Golden Wings

29. "The Hustle and Bustle of the Town"

30. "Turning Over"

31. "Red Rain"

32. The Politics of Memory

33. "YiDai"

34. The Political History Behind the Headdress

35. "The Sacrificed Part"

Among the above works, the Republic of China has produced them