"The more painful, the more I like it." Michelangelo
"I cry, I suffer, I just want to know the truth"-Tolstoy
Who's Who describes the spiritual strength and beauty of three great artists of different times and nationalities. They are Beethoven, a great German musician in the19th century, Michelangelo, a famous Italian sculptor in the Renaissance, and Tolstoy, a great Russian literary master. They wrote their lofty courage to fight against fate and their great feelings to bear the suffering of all mankind, so that we can get close to the great personalities of heroes with our hearts and feel their long-term suffering in pursuit of truth, goodness and beauty.
Who's Who well proves an old saying of China people: Those who have achieved great things in ancient and modern times must have perseverance and extraordinary talents. Romain rolland firmly grasped the commonness between these three artists and their respective fields, and began to restore the lofty humanitarian tradition of 20th century literature and their colorful characters. Beethoven's tortuous life, from the glory he enjoyed for an instant to the poverty at the bottom of his life, from the suffering of his childhood to the pursuit of happiness in his later years, is just like what Roman Roland described as "a life like a thunderstorm". From this, I realized that Beethoven had been struggling with fate and thoughts. Although he gives people a sense of arrogance, his inner weakness and strength can't be tapped by people who don't know him. His passion for writing perfect songs, his persistence in seeking happiness, and his persistence in perfect meeting make his life a natural force; The battle between a primitive force and the rest of nature produced Homer's epic spectacle. He created happiness with his own suffering, and "taking pleasure in suffering" was enough to condense his life. Michelangelo, isn't he? "He has the strength, he was born to fight, to conquer, and he also conquered-he doesn't want to win. This is not what he expected. " He is a spiritual aristocrat and a genius, but he is troubled by genius, and even his spirit and mind are powerless. This crazy excitement exists in a terrible life that is too weak physically and mentally to control. It can be seen that his life is sacred and painful, but he believes that as long as his soul can endure and resolutely, and does not blindly sink into suffering, it will certainly break through the spiritual bondage. In the struggle and abandonment, he spent his whole life creating immortal masterpieces expressing truth, goodness and beauty. Tolstoy, the great Russian soul shining with flames on the earth, soothed people's stars in the dusk at the end of 19. With his powerful pen, he wrote works that let us follow Tolstoy's contradictory experience step by step. In addition to the darkness of the society at that time, these works describe the belief in God, who persistently spread the seeds of love to the world with the pen tip. I deeply realized that he insisted on faith and wrote life for truth and justice.
Yes, Beethoven, Michelangelo and Tolstoy are all conquerors of the world. We appreciate the works created by their genius, just as we appreciate the great achievements of our ancestors, and we no longer want to hear their blood. This is undoubtedly an embarrassing thing for us, because the lives of these giants are like a mirror, reflecting our meanness and smallness. We would rather praise their works than feel the greatness of their personality. No, great souls are like mountains, where we will get more enlightenment. Who's Who is like writing us a symphony of heroes. The enlightenment we get from this is that everyone will suffer and suffer disasters. It is better to work hard than to complain about others. We should not worship great men, but learn from the greatness of great men's personality and make our life full of meaning. We should not rely on impetuousness and quick success, but should stick to our faith, truth and justice and make ourselves immortal.
As long as we realize that "Whose Biography" has sublimated our hearts, let the hero's blood appear in front of us and let the hero's red flag fly above our heads, we will gradually feel that in this society where people avoid the sublime, bid farewell to the sublime and settle for mediocrity, our soul has also sublimated into a kind of sublime.
Overall structure
From the structural point of view, Beethoven's biography, Michelangelo's biography and Tolstoy's biography seem to be independent and irrelevant, but in fact they are internally consistent. This consistency stems not only from the spiritual similarity of the three masters, but also from another important thought of Roland, namely, the European unity thought and the humanitarian spirit.
Whose Biography is a fascinating biography. The author devoted all his enthusiasm to successfully expose readers to the three masters in the biography and share their pains and failures. Also share their sincerity and success.
The most prominent place in Whose Biography is that it shows the biographer's physical and mental sufferings in many aspects, as well as their unremitting struggle with infinite suffering and their passion for life that broke out in the struggle. Throughout the three biographies, the protagonists in Roland's novels have the same fate schema and trend: enduring long-term suffering, torrent-like vitality, artistic creation embodying the will of life and the pursuit of exchanging pain for joy.
Roman? Roland called these three great geniuses' heroes'. His view of hero is not the hero usually praised. Roman? The heroes Roland refers to have become "loyal servants of mankind" because of their great character. They are great because they can serve the public wholeheartedly. Roland himself said: "The hero I am talking about is not a person dominated by ideas or power; But a man with a great heart. In order to highlight the essence of heroes, Roland changed the writing style of conventional biographies, abandoned the general knowledge introduction of biographies, concentrated on grasping the highly unified spiritual character of characters, and projected his passion for heroes.
Beethoven, Michelangelo, Tolstoy, these people who were honored as heroes by Roman Roland, were either tortured by illness, or suffered, or because of inner confusion and contradiction, or the superposition of the three, and their deep distress almost choked their breath and destroyed their reason. They can persist in the arduous course because of their love and confidence in mankind. Beethoven's music of "taking pain as pleasure"; Michelangelo dedicated his life's hard work to a masterpiece that shocked the soul; Tolstoy always cared about the greatness and insignificance of thousands of creatures, so as to spread the seeds of love and the ideal of tolerance.
Who's Who tells the story of the bitter and bumpy lives of Beethoven, Michelangelo and lev tolstoy, and praises their indomitable will and noble character.
Beethoven's great love
Biography of Beethoven: Beethoven 1770 12 17 was born in a poor family. His father is an opera singer, rude and likes drinking, and his mother is a maid. Beethoven himself was ugly, had a hard life in his childhood and adolescence, and was often scolded by his father. Beethoven1/Kloc-0 joined the theater band at the age of/0/,and became a great organist at the age of 13. /kloc-at the age of 0/7, he lost his mother, and he was responsible for the education of his two brothers alone.
1792 65438+ Beethoven left his hometown Bonn in February and went to Vienna, the city of music. Soon, pain knocked on the door of his life. Since 1796, Beethoven's ears have been ringing day and night, and his hearing has been declining. At first, he kept this terrible secret alone. 180 1 year, he fell in love with a girl named Julietta, but because of her disability (he was deaf at this time) and Julietta's selfishness and vanity, she married an earl two years later. The double torture of body and spirit is reflected in his works of this period (Fantasy Sonata) and (Kruze Sonata). The revolution that swept Europe spread to Vienna, and Beethoven's mood began to rise. At this time, his works include Hero Symphony and Passion Sonata.
1806 In May, Beethoven got engaged to Miss Brunswick, and the beauty of love produced a series of great works. Unfortunately, love abandoned him again, and his fiancee married someone else. However, Beethoven was in the heyday of his creation at this time, and he was carefree about everything. He attracted the attention of the world, and after his glory came the most tragic period: financial distress, the death of relatives and friends, deafness, and communication with people only on paper. Facing the hardships of life, it seems that nothing can make Beethoven yield. He reversed the frivolous atmosphere in Vienna at that time with his own creative style.
1827 On March 26th, Beethoven took his last breath on a snowy day.