This is the academic autobiography of Benedict Anderson, the author of "Imagined Communities". Nedict's writing is very interesting, especially very important, he is not giving us a review of his first half of his life, but more to guide us to understand how he thinks. There are actually not many mentions of Indonesia and Siam in it, but it left a deep impression on me. It is not the foreign lands we can see from the news, but they talked about their emotional memory, thinking mode and popular literature. Interesting. For example, in Indonesia, their concept of "power" is based on concrete things rather than abstract. For example, if you give the jade seal the concept of the highest power, then your emperor will be inferior. You can't make the jade seal both concrete and symbolic. An example of succession to the throne in their history is very contrary to our traditional cognition, but I can't describe it to you because it is very serious. Curious students can go and see it. In fact, when I look at the history of some other countries, I really find that China is a very special existence, and it was very special in ancient times. When I first watched "Mulan Without Elder Brother", the most shocking thing was that the soldiers had no military pay and had to pay for their own equipment. Later, when I read the history of Rome, I found that not only Rome but also the ancient armies of many countries were like this. Life without compensation? ? ? During the Roman Republic, people without money could not join the army? If the propertied class does not have special reasons (disability), they will lose their political status if they don¡¯t join the army. I naively thought that in the past, soldiers were only recruiting young men, and there was no pay and entry barriers.
2. Meet Museum
Epistolary novels, when I first saw on the book cover that people who liked "Mary and Marx" must like the works, I actually read them with a kind of mentality of watching the excitement, thinking that it was a chicken soup novel to catch the heat. I didn¡¯t expect it to be true, even more touching than Mary¡¯s animated film. First of all, the correspondents are all elderly people. Wait, why do I feel like I have read a bunch of novels about elderly people this year?
In fact, this book has something to do with the left-behind children applying for the major of archeology at Peking University. The person who wrote the letter was a very ordinary Irish peasant woman. When she was a child, she and her girlfriends were very curious about the Toland people. They always wanted to go to the Danish museum to see the Toland people. She didn¡¯t go there until her old age. After her best friend passed away, she wrote to the curator of the Danish museum. The two began to communicate bit by bit from the Toland people, archeology, and ancient life. Two people are very lonely, one best friend died, one wife died, the discussion of death, children, newborns, especially the fear, expectation and escape of realizing dreams is very interesting. Because I am more idealistic, if there is any dream, even if I realize the risk, I will pursue it, but even if I do it, I will still have a lot of fear and escape thoughts. "Normal" life paths are very, very clearly planned, without leaving a fork in the road, so I can't help but think wildly when I read this book. In fact, I can¡¯t even talk about deep love for my dream, but I can¡¯t accept a completely predictable future. This book is more suitable for friends who don¡¯t know their hearts.
3. Facts
I don¡¯t understand why the author Philip Roth has become so popular in the past few years. After reading his "Facts" and "Anger", they are both well-written but suspected of showing off skills. I didn¡¯t want to push this book, but I thought about it , the chapter about the ex-wife in it is very exciting and various reversals are recommended.
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The Marriage Patterns chapter of My Life as a Man recounts how Peter Tarnopole was duped into believing Maureen Johnson was pregnant and I was duped into believing Josie was pregnant in February 1959 have striking resemblance. Perhaps no other scene in my work replicates my autobiographical facts more precisely. It represents one of the few occasions where I don't have to add spontaneous embellishments to make my novel more interesting. I couldn't have been more interesting¡ª¡ªI couldn't have been as interesting.
Josie's completely spontaneous scheming is a little gem of a treacherous invention. It's economical, sensational, obvious, humiliating and disorienting, ridiculously simple, and above all miraculously effective. To reinvent even the tiniest detail would be an aesthetic blunder that would tarnish the most imaginative feats of her life. It was an utterly original act that elevated her from my "editor" in fantasy to a literary counterpart with fearless flair, if only for a short time. That kind of fearless "ruthless" writer is what Flaubert thinks is the most powerful. Due to my limited experience and orderly progress, I have not yet approached them. Such masterful ruthlessness is absolutely impossible to find. Nagging, defeated, half-mad monologue, in Fifteen pages of Dostoevsky's novelnomenclature
The collection of poems by Argentine female poets, I don¡¯t really love poetry very much, and I often use it to slow down my reading speed. Looking back on this collection of poems now, I don¡¯t remember it deeply, but the overall quality of Ishikawa Takuboku¡¯s short songs is still worse. I can remember some. But this translator's speech is very moving. I recommend everyone to read "When They Have to Face and Bear a Historical Failure with Bare Hands | Wang Tianai is the 766th Speaker". She shared her literary translation career Two people who moved her, two very good stories. Finally read a poem:
"1936" Sernuda:
At that time the cause seemed to have failed,
This is nothing;
There are too many people, and it is hot among them
actually only for their own benefit,
That's not even worth mentioning.
What matters is one's beliefs, and that's enough.
So today you found again
Initial feelings:
That cause is noble and worth fighting for.
His belief, that belief, remains
After all these years, these failures,
When everything seems to have been betrayed.
Yet that belief, you tell yourself, is the only thing that matters.
Thank you, partner, thank you
This example. thank you for telling me
People are noble.
Even if there are not many noble people:
One, one person is enough
witness irrefutably
The nobility of the whole human race.
A story is better than a poem, I recommend everyone to watch the speech!
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Books that Samsung can also read:
1. I am a mother, I need a platinum bag
When it became popular a while ago, Mao used this book to cite many examples, so I read it. How should I put it, it talked about how Yale¡¯s doctorate in anthropology integrated into the life of a mother on the Upper East Side. A book of selfish desires, the description of the upper class in it is okay, but the first half is actually a book that can arouse your discomfort. The objectification of women, especially elite women, has reached the pinnacle. The curiosity of life can arouse your anger even more, especially the author's fusion process will also arouse the anger of women with a little independent consciousness, but the second half of the book does not describe the high life, the author finally begins to use his own professional background to analyze these After the social phenomenon and the systematic exploitation of wives, it is still pretty good. Then some of the phenomena in it are exactly the opposite of the descriptions in our novels. I recommend authors who like to write about bosses to refer to this first-hand information. A lot of the face-slapping bridges used in the face-slapping novels are put there and died directly. There are too many rules, so I still won¡¯t repeat them. I don¡¯t really want to find this book again.
2. Legal ambition
How Asian women hit the US Supreme Court's Mary Sue novel, this one is really going to complain! ! ! ! Everything was good in the beginning, but the ending is forced to be positive. It is unreasonable for an out-and-out realist, a fan of social Darwin, to suddenly become an idealist in the end, and she is forced to reward her brain-twitching behavior. It's not that it can't be reversed, but it doesn't even have a foreshadowing. It's almost the same as the jc that forcibly appears in the ending of domestic movies, but in general, although this book has a lot of technical terms, it is very readable, and it is also a real Mary Sue. , If it weren't for the ending, it would be unreasonable, and the entertainment is still quite strong. The part of the workplace that excludes intrigue is also good, and intrigue is still our officialdom novel is good. (Remember the site URL: www.hlnovel.com