<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="1" > introduction:</h1>
Mary, who has been widowed for many years, raised a pair of children alone, which of course has her lover, Leo's emotional support and enthusiasm.
Her twenty-four-year-old daughter, Carla, silently accepted the harassment of her mother's old lover Leo, who often patronized the house. Gladly go to the appointment late at night and make a promise to each other.
And The adult Carla's younger brother Michelet, in the face of Leo's flying in his home and his covetousness for the family's property, has no courage and can't get angry. After encountering his mother's love enemy, Leo's old lover, and the half-old Xu Niang Lisa's teasing, he even took care of himself and did not refuse.
What made Carla, knowing Leo's lustful nature for money, and her mother so jealous that she self-destructive? What is the reason that the young Michelet, lacking passion for life, is emotionally entangled with an old woman? What is it that causes two young people to behave so perversely?
indifferent. Yes, you read that right, it is indifference that is the real cause of all of this.
As one of the "Three Masters of Modern Italian Literature", Moravia became famous at the age of 22 by publishing Europe's first existentialist novel, The Indifferent Man. In the book, the author writes with a cold pen about the crisis of modern people's ideas, and Karra and Michelet are typical of this crisis of thought.
Next, let's walk into the story in the book together and taste the protagonist's thought process together.
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Fifteen years earlier, Mary's husband had died of alcoholism, leaving her with a pair of young children and a large villa in the heart of the city's most luxurious residential area, surrounded by a large garden. Originally living a good life, she lost her source of livelihood. Out of emotional and life and other aspects of dependence, she found a lover Leo.
This Leoben is not a good bird, the age is not small, has never thought about marriage, money and beauty is the biggest driving force in his life. He was originally the lover of Mary's good friend Lisa, and lisa's life has been at a loose pace since her husband suddenly swept away the family's possessions (including her jewelry). Leo took advantage of the void, and the two of them also took what they needed.
Leo and Mary
After getting to know Mary through Lisa, Leo seems to have found a new prey, not that Mary is more charming than Lisa, but that her husband's luxurious property has left behind, which has aroused More interest in Leo. Therefore, Leo did everything in his power to win Mary's trust and favor, went to Mary's bed, and then broke off his lover relationship with Lisa.
This was fifteen years, during which Leo had maintained enough patience. While emotionally satisfying Mary, she also maintained enough dignity and vanity in life, leading their mother and son to various dances every five minutes, just like the middle-class life of the past. Of course, Leo's gain, in addition to trust, is also the debt owed by the great Mary.
Basically, when it was time for the harvest, Leo's lawyer wrote to Mary that Leo's eight hundred thousand arrears needed to be recovered, and that as long as Mrs. Mary transferred the property to Leo, the arrears would be written off and an additional fee would be paid.
Thinking that once the house has changed hands, her middle-class image and past habitual life are no longer there, Mary has a sense of crisis, so she doubles down on currying favor with Leo in order to continue her current life.
Leo and Carla
Leoben didn't want to expend any more energy, but the actual value of the house was much higher than the price he gave, so he couldn't rush it too much, so as not to make a fuss. At this moment, he took aim at the adult beauty Billet Carla, and her thin figure and plump breasts aroused his infinite fantasies.
In Leo's view, it should be a little difficult to get Karla soaked, after all, the reality is there. It had become an open secret that she was no longer young and had a leg with her mother, and that she was usually over-publicized in Mary's house, leaving no good impression on the children. With all this alone, the average girl would sternly resist his vulgar behavior, and Leo was not without self-awareness.
But in the face of his vulgar teasing and seduction, Carla accepted it with little resistance, which really made him as excited as if he had won the jackpot.
Michelet and Lisa
Despite their mutual prejudices, Mary and Lisa, their apparent friends, are also meticulous. Despite her repeated harsh words, lisa's frequent visits to Mary's home could not be prevented.
Because since her husband left her, she has nothing to do, has not remarried, and has not many friends, and her life is worse than Mary's, but the opportunity to rub rice and rub some dances here is still what she is looking forward to.
It was such a person, and suddenly one day, he paid attention to the young Michelet, and it was more appropriate to say that it was not so much love as a desire to possess. So she teased the young man, either explicitly or covertly, inviting him to play at home.
This Michela is not exactly a fool, he knows Lisa's thoughts, and he also feels that they are not worthy of each other. But he really didn't have the right thing to do, and he didn't have the right place to go, and he came to Lisa's house twice in the midst of entanglement. However, due to the stronger ideological struggle, Lisa tried her best to completely conquer Michelet under her pomegranate skirt. Enraged, she tells Michelet what she has inadvertently seen about the intimate relationship between Carla and Leo.
She didn't see the anticipated outrage from Michelet. Michelet was also surprised why he couldn't hate Leo, the villain, it was difficult to love Lisa, and he was indifferent to Carla and Leo's "adulterous affair".
In order to stop being cold and numb, to stir up his inner emotions, and to prove to Lisa that he was not a twin, he had the idea of killing Leo. So he bought a pistol and headed for Leo's house.
Michelet and Leo
On the way to Leo's house, Michelet made a lot of assumptions about the successful shooting, the way he surrendered, and the situation in which he was tried in court.
In particular, he considered the debate process between his defense lawyer and the judge in detail, and through a fierce scene, he seemed to see his own image, a single wretch, a cold person.
Neither pain nor joy could leave any trace in his heart, like the effects of being screened on a flat white screen. All feelings are fleeting. This perishability seems to have spread beyond his body: everything around him is frivolous and worthless.
The next situation was basically not unexpected, Michelet was not mentally prepared to kill Leo, and the assassination ended with himself being thrown to the ground. When he saw his sister walk out of Leo's bedroom, he was anxious to persuade his sister to change his mind, and said that the best way to get revenge on Leo was to auction off the house and never directly hand it over to Leo.
For Leo, it was literally the flesh of his heart. However, the cunning Leo soon had his own new countermeasure, that is, to propose to Carla, and The stupid girl of Carla actually agreed. And went home with Michelet, claiming to tell her mother about her marriage the next day...
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="69" > second, what makes them so indifferent</h1>
Why can Carla and Michela, who are in the age of flowering, deal with the people and things around them with such an indifferent attitude?
In addition to being related to the social environment at that time, it was inseparable from their family education.
Their father was an alcoholic during his lifetime, and later died probably prematurely due to alcoholism, and there was no positive guidance and education for them. And poor mother Mary, in order to barely maintain a decent life, did not hesitate to borrow and cater to her lover Leo, and every day either went shopping or attended various dances.
Such a meticulous life has no benefit to the children, no normal social outlook, no skill, the surface is bright, but in fact, the shabby life, but also distorts their mentality and life, affects their three views, and even affects them to have normal friendship and love.
For her own self-indulgence, Carla has her own ideas. The daily vain middle-class life made her feel tired. Her vain, jealous and humble mother in front of Leo, leo, who is cunning and arrogant, and has a lot of eyes, all make her upset.
She was also tired of the current chaotic, frivolous, wasted life, so she longed for a new life as the goal of her life, but how to change the status quo? The narrow, dilapidated family situation of the circle of life makes her have almost no choice and no way out. So Leo's place became her only way out of finding a new life, although she had neither love nor affection for Leo, but only a heart-wrenching sense of destruction.
And Michelet, the poor worm, although her mother and sister are slightly stronger in thinking, knows Leo's covetousness for the family's property, but there is no specific coping method and effective strategy, he has no friends, and there is no love. Even the overtures of a half-old Xu Niang could make him very entangled.
He also tried to struggle, but he really did not know where to go, as the book wrote, "he came to the street and looked left and right, wondering where to go", and whenever he observed the vigorous and vibrant life of others, he always felt cold for his own idleness.
Therefore, all kinds of circumstances, the powerlessness of facing life, have to make them indifferent.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="70" > Third, apathy is a "social disease."</h1>
In the book, Carla and Michelet, the two siblings, both have clear minds, but they are powerless in the face of life. This book was completed in 1929, nearly a century later, "The Indifferent Man" tells the same emotions, as most modern people feel, people are bored with ordinary life, for the pain of inaction, for the search for true feelings, and these are precisely the important factors that constitute contemporary indifference.
We can often see the indifferent people and scenes in the current life, in those who eat at home after graduating from college, in those who have passers-by who ask for help and ignore them, and in some officials who want to take care of them.
We are often surprised to see so many people doing whatever it takes to earn money, more love dies because of material poverty, and many girls strive for ten years less and live a superior life, and they are self-deprecating, and even lose self-esteem, snuggling in the arms of those who are the same age as their parents. This is not the embodiment of enthusiasm for life, but the result of extreme indifference.
The development of science and technology and the development of the network have accelerated the pace of life, but the distance between people has been isolated, the number of people in the house has increased, the number of people who are not good at communication and the number of people who are unwilling to communicate have increased, and people have become more and more lonely.
The lonelier, the more indifferent; the more indifferent, the lonelier.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="71" >4, written at the end:</h1>
In the Italian literary world, the author Molivia is recognized as a great writer who did not have time to win the Nobel Prize in Literature, and he has been nominated for the prize 15 times. With a sharp style, he denounced the "disease of apathy" that has corrupted modern society. In this book, through the stories and thoughts of five people in two days, he calmly examines the love world of modern people and the inner world of frustrated people, records the spiritual crisis of an era, and explores people's action, human responsibility and how people can better exist.
As Noor, chairman of the Moravian Foundation, said to Chinese readers on the occasion of the publication of the new Chinese edition of the book this year: "A few words show the modern writing style of Moravia; the heroine Carla's character is still shining with extraordinary light today, almost a century later." ”