It seems that this form of classical literature rarely chooses to read actively, and it is difficult to have a strong interest in this purely conversational literary work. Perhaps in such a fast-paced life, it is difficult to really calm down and ponder over those wonderful plots and scenes, clever arrangement of characters, dialogue between characters, not to mention making great efforts to think about the deep meaning behind them.
The book Jade Bird has been on the shelf for a long time, perhaps because I knew the outline of the work for a long time, or because I didn't have the right time and enough patience, so it has been shelved.
Get up in the morning, sit at your desk and read The Bluebird, the masterpiece of Nobel Prize in Literature winner maeterlinck, who is known as "Belgian Shakespeare".
Jade bird, a lovely creature, is very popular in myths and legends at home and abroad. In The Classic of Mountains and Seas, it is the messenger of the Queen Mother of Xishan Mountain, while in the West it is a symbol of happiness.
What is happiness? Where is happiness?
Where is the bluebird representing happiness?
In the book, the little boy Titier and the little girl Myrtil are looking for a bluebird for Aunt Belleluna's seriously ill grandson on Christmas Eve. They traveled all over the memory country, night palace, dangerous forest, cemetery, happy garden and future kingdom. After thousands of difficulties and dangers, Jade Bird got lost again and again.
Just like the happiness we are looking for, it is always around us, but it is fleeting.
Have to sigh, maeterlinck is indeed a symbol master. In his works, no matter what is abstract and intangible, or all kinds of thoughts and feelings, whether it is a natural phenomenon or a social phenomenon, whether it is an abstract concept or something in the future, it is endowed with life and personality according to its characteristics.
Even happiness is defined by him as true happiness and false happiness. He told us to look for "happiness that is not afraid of diamond light" and stay away from "false happiness that is afraid of light" because they will destroy your will. Only a pair of bright and discerning eyes can truly discover the "little fortunate" around you all the time.
I can't help but think of the Italian classic fairy tale "The Shirt of a Happy Man", in which the king who is full of father's love tries his best to make his unhappy son happy all day. He collected philosophers, doctors and professors from all over the world, and made a plan for his son to find happiness: to find the happiest person, without worries and extravagant hopes, to exchange his shirt for the prince's shirt and cure the prince's depression. The interesting thing about this story is that the king finally found the happiest young man. When he rushed to unbutton his coat, he was dismayed to find that the happy young man had no shirt.
What is happiness and happiness? How can we find them? Finally, neither story gives us a clear answer. For the understanding of the two images of the bluebird and the happy shirt, a thousand readers also have a thousand kinds of Hamlet.
There is mystery everywhere, and every sentence has profound meaning. This book is worth tasting again.