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Takashi Saito's list of books in "Places Only Scholars Can Reach"
Excerpt from A Place Only Scholars Can Reach.

King Oedipus Sophocles/Fu Ling Fujisawa/Translation

This is the highest masterpiece among many Greek tragedies. This work can hold people's hearts for such a long time, and it must have touched something universal that exists in people's unconscious level.

Freud believed in this and found and put forward Oedipus complex. Judging from the influence on later cultural works, it adds a classical style.

Oedipus, who unconsciously committed the universal crime of killing his father and marrying his mother, finally revealed the truth himself, which was really sad. The more you try to escape from fate, the more you are strangled and unable to move, exposing the overwhelming power and absurdity of fate.

Osamu Dazai's language skills are profound, and his words are clever. People who don't read much will also be attracted by him.

Besides, his works depict profound characters. Therefore, once you fall into the world of slaughter, it will accelerate your understanding of human nature, which is no exaggeration.

Human Disqualification, written before his suicide, is a masterpiece of Osamu Dazai literature. A thin book has profound meaning.

Ye Cang, the protagonist who is alienated from others in life, bears the fear of being out of the world, but is eager to love and trust others. There are not a few modern people who see his figure from him. The cartoon version of Disqualification in the World by Mr. Tanigu Rabbit Pill, in which the characters are vividly portrayed, gives people the feeling of being there, and is worth reading.

Even if you have read it before, you will find something new if you read it again, which is likely to be more interesting. Comfortable description of the appearance of the characters lifelike, lifelike, people feel that he has an extraordinary mind.

When reading repeatedly, it will be more interesting if you pay attention to a certain keyword consciously. Such as the theme of "blood". In one scene, the teacher said to me, "You have to pierce my heart and suck my blood." In another scene, K left blood when he committed suicide. "Heart" and "blood" are related to reading, and you will find different things.

This is an autobiographical novel written by Zhong Kan from the end of Meiji period to Taisho period, and it is a great literary work.

The book describes the story of Nakanosuke's childhood, that is, the story of the Meiji era, which evokes the true portrayal of the five senses, so it is easy to imagine. The inner activities described are extremely kind and delicate. Reading with your childhood experiences will give you a variety of feelings. Please savor his unique sensibility and excellent sense of language when reading.

There is a sentence in the book Night and Fog, which was bound by psychologist Victor frankl in his memoirs of a concentration camp: "We should not expect anything from life. Instead, we should blindly ask what life expects of us. This is the problem. "

Whether mentally or physically, it is not difficult to imagine that people are in an unimaginable extreme state, and it is not difficult to imagine that they will have this desperate idea of "no expectation for survival". If people can survive under such circumstances, they are all people with the idea that "my beloved is waiting for me" and "something important is waiting for me".

Frankl himself survived by thinking about living a new life with his wife and giving some psychological speeches about concentration camps.

There is something irreplaceable in everyone's heart! Just because I know why I exist, I can tolerate almost anything.

Macbeth Shakespeare/this book

Immortal masterpieces full of profound famous sayings and suffocating sense of urgency run through them from beginning to end. As a Scottish military commander, Macbeth's ambition to become a king is contradictory to his loyalty to the king. When he wavered, his wife angered him with fierce words.

"Sit down, are you going to procrastinate all your life?" Now that they have vowed to "show them the brains of children who drink milk", the influence of such a lady is strong and charming. Reading this passage aloud will be exciting. Read aloud and savor with the mentality that you are an actor.

Don Quixote Cervantes/this book

This book is very famous, but few people have finished it. Although a * * * has six long volumes, it won't feel long and hard.

The hero of this work is called the originator of modern novels. He is a man who thinks he is a chivalrous man because he has read too many stories about chivalry. The "deviation of consciousness" between Don Quixote and the people around him caused their friction, and the story continued with this as the driving force.

Don Quixote and Sancho Panza are an excellent combination. They are the ultimate form of holding horns and teasing. They are not only "enviable celebrities" who will not bring harm to people, but also bring happiness to people. This is how they use their friends flexibly. ?

Strangely, I am familiar with the story of Don Quixote standing on the windmill, and as a typical figure, this name has also been quoted in my own article. But seriously, have you really never read this book? )

Yukio Mishima's Golden Pavilion Temple/.

This is a great literary work written by Yukio Mishima with the theme of 1950 fire in the Golden Pavilion Temple. The protagonist is a young monk who cringes and feels inferior because of stuttering. The monk admitted that he was fascinated by the beauty of Jingu Temple. After the struggle, he finally portrayed the image of arson for revenge and monopoly.

It is very profound and interesting to describe the contradiction between language and beauty. I once asked students to read this work aloud. Many people praised "Yukio Mishima is a genius!" ? Jingu Temple, which was not burned in the war, was actually set on fire. Such an emergency is even more interesting to think of living because of this work.

The artistic conception of reading poetry, the dictionary/book of words

The author of this book is the poet Ms. Tsukiko. Her masterpieces include Don't Depend, Feeling of Self and so on, which are very famous. In this book, Ms. Zi Mu selected her favorite poems and enthusiastically expounded their charms.

For example, Shuntaro Tanikawa's Mourning for the Past and なかはら まこと's Song of the Sheep. There are also Zhu Yu's poems told by Ms. Zi Mu with her rich sensibility and awe-inspiring gentle language. Because it is an introductory youth edition, it is easy to read, and there are background introductions of poets and poems.

Song of death by Yuji Matsumura.

The series "Selected Works of Japanese Poets" is easy for people who are not familiar with poetry. This book is a collection of "songs of death" by historical figures such as Toyotomi Hideyoshi, Morino Niichi, Fan Shi Shejiu and Yoshida Shōin. When bidding farewell to this world, writing a poem from the heart is a unique culture in Japan. Through short words, you can feel unspeakable profundity.

The explanation of this book is very clear, describing how the Japanese face death. Watching many death songs, you can feel the spiritual journey of the Japanese.

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