Disillusionment with reading experience 1
Balzac's Disillusionment has been published for one hundred years. Like Shakespeare's plays, his articles are immortal. Among the similar literary works I have read, few can surpass Balzac in style, profundity and logic. After reading his books, it is easy to find the weaknesses of other books, or the rendering power of scenery description is insufficient or redundant, or the characterization is not deep enough, or the plot development transition is not smooth, or the characterization is too perfect and unreal, and so on. Balzac is a master of literature. He seems to be born to write novels. His mind seems to be full of countless stories and countless people, and he can easily move them to paper.
To say that I admire the novelist most, he can be the first, but his paunchy appearance always makes me want to find out his shortcomings, so I read some of his books. After reading them, I found that if this person lives in today's era, he is an all-round player, a Leonardo da Vinci in the novel world, and an encyclopedia of genius. He covers many and diverse fields. Every book has a world, and every world is different, in the mountains. And these puzzles together, is a human. I often can't believe that a person can have such creativity. Lu Yao dumped everything and wrote an ordinary world. But Balzac's masterpieces handed down from generation to generation are numerous, and he created human comedies himself. Is there a greater miracle than this?
I have seen Pan Guangdan's psychological analysis of Feng Xiaoqing before. If we analyze Balzac, we may be a visionary with full imagination. But in fact, he writes to pay off debts and support his family. Money is really the biggest motivation. Maybe the lure of money is a demon to others, but it is the embodiment of the muse to him.
In fact, disillusionment is a very long book for me, and the characters are unattractive. I hate two kinds of people most, one is shallow and vain, and the other is shallow and immature. Lv Xian won the first prize. His vanity is too strong, and his background can't support his vanity. He is beautiful, but beauty has no temperament and connotation, and it is really worse than ugliness. All I can see is the glamour on the surface and the filth inside the world, which makes me like Lv Xian, unable to see many things. I can understand his ignorance and failure, but I can't forgive his stupidity, impenitence and arrogance. If a person is not fully prepared, will the world accept him with his innocence and appearance? Many things we already know are not as obvious and exaggerated as in the book, but I can't agree with many views. A person with good quality won't get more respect than a person with poor quality. This kind of thing that has become poisonous chicken soup is the truth that we escape. Treat people sincerely and trust others. Such people are ridiculous, pitiful, cunning, passive and judgmental to Nuo Nuo. Such people are more likely to gain a place in society. Once he has gained his position through various unfair means, who will care what he has done unless he is exposed by a more despicable person? This society is like this. Many times, he doesn't want to admit that he wants to create an ideal society for himself, but it's just a moth to a fire. Disillusionment of ideals and distortion into butterflies are all choices that people often face when they are young. At first, I found Lv Xian irritating, incompetent and weak-willed. Later, I felt that he was not the typical young generation with lofty aspirations and pleasure. When I watched it, I didn't expect that I would be self-righteous like him and be taken into the fire pit step by step. Think about it. If I'm inside, I can go without getting wet.
Recently, when I read "The History of the State of Lieguo" in the Eastern Zhou Dynasty, I remembered Lao Tzu's saying that a small country with few people would govern by doing nothing, and the so-called "People will die if they don't move far away, although they have boats and boats, they have nothing to take, although they have armored soldiers, they have nothing to show ..." When I first read it, I felt very beautiful. All the people found their homes, went on strike and studied, and everyone was indifferent. It's really harmonious But in the Spring and Autumn Period and other countries, which small country didn't survive by a big country, the big country used the small country again and again in order to dominate, and then after reading these words of Laozi, I found that Laozi's idealism was really a fantasy that I never dreamed of at that time, and finally it became a classic that Taoism advocated to become immortal and soar in the sky. It can also be seen that the distance between the so-called ideal and the secular is difficult to bridge in any era. You can't live without ideals, but you must distinguish between ideals and fantasies. You must distinguish how many people in this world can do it, or at least know yourself, this society, the people you make friends with, the present, the future, human nature, in short, this world. What is your foundation? Can you adapt to the shell of society? Can you trust the people you make? Do you know the situation now? Is the future choice and way out clear? Do you know enough about human nature? ……
I can't go far by being naive and smart, although I don't want to be a negative word in my heart. But this book not only makes innocence a bad word, but also makes the poet's laurels shallow, especially those inexplicable poems. Perhaps China people's aesthetics is beyond appreciation, or perhaps Balzac is not good at writing poems. In short, it has no aesthetic feeling and is full of all the vanity and self-righteousness of an ignorant young man. Let's take a look at Poe's poem "Fairys take off their veils and get up one after another, with white faces and big eyes". Although translation can't be appreciated, it at least creates an atmosphere of terror and darkness.
The book may say that I am burdened with too many sad, helpless, useful and useless thoughts. You can see millions of worlds through me, beautiful and dirty, but none of them are real. The real world is right in front of you, and you tell me you can't stand it. I make you a poet, and everything can be transformed into elegant words. You see the ugliness of others, but you don't know where it comes from. As a poet, you avoid it and despise it. Ignoring evil itself is evil, and sympathizing with evil is the origin of good. Compassion is not forgiveness, but understanding the sadness of birth.
Disillusioned reading experience 2
The first time I read such a thick novel, Balzac took pains to describe the environment, making everything clear and not subtle at all. Watching "Disillusionment" is like watching martial arts novels, and the struggle in the news publishing industry is thrilling. The martial arts film Metropolis gives people a satisfactory ending. The good guys get revenge, or get their fame or retire, and the bad guys always die because of the readers' demands, which is romantic. However, Balzac is a master of realism. He has no dream, no hope. No matter how worried you are, you have seen the end of a good man (Ba is a writer with strong moral values). The end of the struggle is that the bad guys got the invention of the good guys through treachery, and then the wind and water flourished, while the good guys said, that's it, we are not cut out for business. Every time I think that David's painstaking invention is occupied by the Ku brothers, my heart aches. But it's the only way. In the real society where we live, just like in novels, artists, scientists and poets are so pure and single-minded that they are unable to cope with the social structure. They need to be smart, cunning and selfish, which Balzac calls depravity.
Some noble souls refuse to degenerate, such as Artz, a small group, who lives a life of forbearance and restraint in their own small circle, but forbearance is tantamount to committing suicide every day. This sentence was said by Balzac, but it is more in line with existentialism. /kloc-After the 0/9th century, the human desire to break free from moral bondage reached its peak.
In order to avoid criticism, we can neither ask whether moral rules are useful nor say that existence is reasonable. So, why do moral values exist?
Or just a need, you can't praise or criticize. (Kundera said that a unified moral concept will only annihilate a person's personality, and Balzac himself said that greed and selfishness are the truest essence of human nature. Is what he criticizes what he suspects? ) So, do Balzac's preaching, Tolstoy's preaching and Hugo's sarcasm violate the famous saying "Life is just a play, why play too much" (in Pakistani)?
Scientists can't be scientists and poets can't be poets, so there is disillusionment, which is also the strangulation of human nature. Therefore, it seems that there are always some people who want to sacrifice their own pursuit to achieve others. This has become Darwin's survival of the fittest and the survival of the strong. Endless evolution is only a natural law, and it seems that morality is not needed.
Some people say (I have said it before): keep yourself without hurting the interests of others. But how hypocritical this sentence is, it can't stand scrutiny, and it is powerless empty talk, because in fact, others are hell. Between people, there is endless conflict.
What do most people's satisfaction standards and my heartache for David and Lv Xian prove? This belongs to the category of ethics, but it is also Schopenhauer's "eternal justice". It turns out that morality is not advocated and stipulated, but spontaneous and has existed for centuries. Plato's exposition of justice is.
Perhaps such progressive thinking will eventually approach the answer, or there may be no answer at all. Brock didn't prove the existence of God in the end, and I can't measure and analyze morality with an accurate balance cup. Zhang Ailing said that the world is chaotic and rich. Finding answers is just an intellectual game that God assigned to some people when he was bored. The existence of human beings is irrational and full of randomness and contingency.
Tracing back to the source, what is the essence of human nature at the beginning? Nietzsche's egoism proves that morality is only the need of every stage of social development. Schopenhauer and the theory of good nature prove that justice exists spontaneously. Sartre, Beauvoir, Darwin and others also said that moral norms are just a kind of bondage, but the conclusions are so contradictory that they don't feel that they have their own reasons. Perhaps it can be summarized as follows: goodness, justice and egoism originally existed spontaneously at the root of human nature, but after people were born, contradictions and conflicts arose due to the influence of the environment, and people began to fall to both sides, or became moral or exclusive egoists. In order to keep the balance, society began to make laws and regulations, hoping that the exclusive part would be tolerated. When the laws and regulations develop to a certain extent, some people stand up and accuse morality, once again showing the other side of human nature.
Disillusioned reading experience 3
Disillusionment is a great tragedy of Balzac's critical realism. Its success, like Balzac's other works, such as Uncle Bunce, exposed the evil and class contradictions in French society at the beginning of19th century. In my opinion, disillusionment is the darkest of Balzac's human comedies. In this article, I will focus on my views on "the boundary of sin", that is, "what is sin" and "what is the boundary of sin".
Let's look at the main line of the story: David and Lv Xian are bosom friends, David's father is an extremely stingy and vicious printer owner, and Lv Xian is the son of a drugstore owner. They all have lofty ideals: David wants to invent low-cost and high-quality paper, and Lv Xian wants to enter the literary world. But Lv Xian fell in love with Mrs Tebazidon and went to Paris with her, but she was finally abandoned. Lured by the journalist Rosdo, Lv Xian left the small group of aristocratic young intellectuals and devoted himself to the corrupt press. Eventually, he was ruined because of his dissolute life and the calculation of his old lover. On the one hand, David was exploited by his father, on the other hand, he competed unequally with his opponents, and finally lost his invention patent.
You may find that the hypocrisy, greed and cruelty of some characters in the stories told by the author are particularly outrageous. But if you carefully summarize and analyze, you will find that everyone has an ugly side except David, Eve and a few educated youths. For example, Ross's duplicity and mercenary nature have developed to the point where he can change from helping Lv Xian to being jealous of his talent in one minute. But he also has a human side. He confided his contempt for the corrupt press to Lv Xian, and he also prepared a weapon of "struggle" for Lv Xian in the midst of difficulties-a beautiful dress symbolizing his position and winning the favor of women. There are also people who have both good and evil like this, including Gao, Camus and so on. But there are still a group of people, Balzac dressed with high intelligence and different personalities, who are pure conspirators-Goende, the father of David, Fino and so on. In front of these countless villains, you will have doubts about the definition of evil-is it necessary to make a living by writing articles against your will, and you will be guilty if you inadvertently suppress the genius of real writing and investigation? -Don't we support freedom of speech? Is it a shame to fight for the noble heart and rise step by step? -It didn't hurt innocent people. On the other hand, our relevant laws and regulations are not enough to cope with the society of "inherent vice at the beginning of life". When the law enforcer and the law enforcer damage the rule of law at the same time, when morality becomes a weapon of hypocrites, laws that are not strict enough will become ridiculous props and will only hurt those who still have some conscience. What is sin? This is not a legal issue. Law-abiding is just a bad wall. In more directions, it is faith, public opinion and traditional morality that contain the evil of human nature. Of course, they can help sometimes. Therefore, sin is all actions, even thoughts, that violate personal integrity. If your ethics no longer exists and morality has become an empty shell, then you don't need to take action, which is full of evil.
What about the boundaries of sin? There are many characters mentioned above, so Rossdo is less guilty than Goander? You can't divide the types of evil because of class or group. For example, the evil of Mrs. Ba Ridong is the levity and arbitrariness of the nobility, which directly led to the disaster of Lv Xian and David. But on the other hand, the nature of proletarian Sali's treachery and fickleness is cleaner than that of Mrs. Bazidon? From the nature, result and social influence, we can find the "richness" of evil types. You can also understand-there is no blackest, only blacker.
Disillusionment awakens the mind and brain of every reader with the poverty of several young people. It is cruel, let us watch the vicious game of fate; It is also compassion, calling for sublimation with depravity.
Disillusioned reading experience 4
I wanted to read Balzac's book a long time ago, but I haven't put it into action until now. In fact, I want to read this book mainly because of the name of the novel. I don't know why I have a sincere affection for the word disillusionment. The disillusionment of those ambitions in the story dragged me into the whirlpool of thinking.
In this book, I saw the struggle of little people, the desire of every youth for fame, the individual who lost his soul in the bustling downtown, and the love and dedication between people. This is a warning record for every young person, and it is also a microcosm of a real society, which makes us feel about life with a sigh. This is another history of the struggle of the poor, who are covered in blood and climb up, but will eventually be despised and spurned by the cruel nobility and bourgeoisie.
Personally, this story revolves around two young people from other provinces with ideals. Their friendship is profound, but their personalities are quite different. David is honest and kind, down-to-earth, brave and strong, and can sacrifice everything for friends and relatives; Lv Xian is passionate, longing for a luxurious life, smart but pretentious, and likes to get something for nothing, which determines their different life paths. David stayed in the land of other provinces and married the same ordinary and kind Eve. In order to provide a comfortable life for his family and friends, he devoted himself to studying the improvement of papermaking technology. Lv Xian, on the other hand, entered Paris with the help of nobles and handsome appearance, and entered the luxurious life he dreamed of.
Lv Xian met the Germans for the first time? Mrs. Ba Ridong experienced her first betrayal of David when she was invited because of her looks. When Lv Xian excitedly ran to David and said, De? When Mrs. Ba Ridong met him, his ambition was whether the future would be smooth sailing. There is no doubt that in the face of ambition, friendship has been in a secondary position, and desire is eroding his emotions, conscience and even soul. Lv Xian betrayed David for the second time between him and Germany? When Mrs Battleton fled to Paris from other provinces. He was so anxious and desperate that he gave up the wedding of his sister Eve and David to pursue his dream of Paris. At this time, he has put himself in the center. Lv Xian betrayed David for the third time when he became a journalist and held power in Paris. When he spent money like water and became a complete playboy, he ignored the efforts of David, Eve and his mother and enjoyed the prosperity and luxury of Paris alone. Lv Xian betrayed David for the fourth time when he was extremely depressed and signed a promissory note of 3000 francs in the name of David. This is what he thought of only his own predicament, and he didn't think of David's situation at all. His pride and vanity bound his concern for his relatives.
I say this not because I don't think Lv Xian got anything from him, but because he has been accepting the contributions of his mother and sister since he was a child, and he has developed a self-centered habit. He desperately wants to get rid of his poor life and humble social status, so when his ideal conflicts with reality, his whole thinking and action become so chaotic that he does not hesitate to sacrifice others to solve his own crisis. But when the sense of crisis passed away, humanity and conscience kept whipping his soul, making him unable to extricate himself from the quagmire of regret and trying every means to make up for the damage. When he was in a hurry to change his surname, he finally ushered in Germany? When Mrs. Batidong showed weakness, she thought of Cora Li's love and dedication and rejected her former lover. When he and Cora Li had reached the end of the road, he still didn't betray the clique that shared weal and woe, crying for Artest's help and forgiveness; When he realized what a disaster he had brought to David, he was eager to take responsibility and even wanted to die. Finally, he sold his body and soul to the secretary of a Spanish diplomat for fifteen thousand francs to make up for his mistake. He is such an ordinary person, not strong enough and full of desire, but he is a little immature after all. As a matter of fact, we all have Lv Xian's shadow, don't we?
We thought Balzac would give David a perfect ending, because he is such a kind and ideal person, but it is not the case. This veritable inventor finally developed a low-cost papermaking process, but it was designed by the Guantai brothers to take away the fruits of hard work, which made people feel embarrassed and angry. Balzac's novels are too real. He used this imperfection to expose the decline of feudal system and the rise of bourgeoisie after the French Revolution. In that social environment, the competition between people is becoming more and more fierce. Where does a man like David have a chance to win? Fortunately, David and Eve are not obsessed with money and fame. They accepted this fact and silently ran their own businesses in the countryside.
In addition to personal experience and social environment, we also see the commercialization of literature and art and the shady phenomenon of the press in this book. As Lv Xian's introductory tutor, Rousteau led him step by step into the depths of the dark river of the press, which opened the veil of news for us. Lv Xian won his position in the press with his beautiful appearance and excellent eloquence, and then he played word games and attacked his enemies and even friends under the guidance of Lusto. With the help of attacking or praising articles, they can make printers, booksellers, theater owners, actors and even the government bow down. They can decide the sales of a book, a person's future and the income of a store.
The novels and poems of Lv Xian, a nobody who just entered Paris, were neglected, while Lv Xian, who was all-powerful in the press, made the printer obediently offer 3,000 francs with a pen. Lv Xian, who was down and out in Paris, was abandoned by the noble lady, while Lv Xian, who was dancing with a pen, drove Madame Batidon and Count Chatelet on pins and needles. Lv Xian thinks this clique is talented and ambitious, while Lv Xian, who is seduced by the power of pen, thinks this clique is too pedantic. Lv Xian's ambition touched the luxurious life, his vain reputation, and the great power given by the news puzzled his eyes, so his self-esteem completely expanded! This is the power of news. In that era when the bourgeoisie was developing rapidly and journalism was still lacking control, those who controlled the news controlled public opinion, which in turn controlled status and money. How difficult it is for people with these to maintain their own ethics and standards! This also doomed the end of Lv Xian. He didn't understand the means of nobles, nor did he understand the interests of the struggle between parties and newspapers, and eventually became cannon fodder in the war.
The collusion between the printing industry and the press has left many really good literary works in the cold and attacked, but books with insufficient quality have boarded the literary platform, which is a tragedy of the times and the history of literature and art. The press needs freedom and standardization. Literature needs innovation and truth; Ideal needs struggle and reason.
Disillusioned reading experience 5
Disillusionment is a book worth recommending to young people who have just stepped into society. I like it very much, on the one hand, because of Balzac's simple writing style, and on the other hand, because of Balzac's fabulous skills in dealing with the ending of Lv Xian.
Balzac is a great writer. There is no doubt that he occupies a very important position in the history of French literature. His Old Man is selected from China's middle school textbooks. Balzac has engaged in many occupations in his life, but unfortunately none of them succeeded. He insisted on writing and left us a rich literary achievement-Human Comedy, and he was more or less exhausted by writing. Human comedy consists of 9 1 novel, which is divided into three parts: custom research, philosophy research and analysis research. Disillusionment is an important part of Balzac's human comedy series, which is divided into three parts. The final fate of the protagonist Lv Xian is arranged in another book, The Honor and Disgrace of Fireworks Women (also called The Rise and Fall of Social Flowers).
In the protagonist of Disillusionment, I can't say who I like or who I hate. I like David Xia Sai's down-to-earth efforts and his blind love, but I don't like him accommodating his friends too much. I like Eve's persistence in love and the courage and ability of women she shows in times of crisis, but I don't like her accommodating her brother too much. I don't like Lv Xian at all, but I don't hate him. On the contrary, I can see some of my former shadows from him.
Don't talk about feelings, just extract the following classic philosophical sentences and vivid descriptions, let Balzac speak for himself!
"Time is the capital of those who have nothing but cleverness.
"In some people's minds, people who are not in sight are always the first.
"When you (Lv Xian) think about problems, you are grandiose, showing that you are noble; It's wrong to do this ... you'll never be satisfied with yourself. Even if it is absurd, it is better to think absurdly and do it decently.
"When you (Lv Xian) think of a witticism, you will feel compelled to say it, even if it hurts your friend.
"Everything depends on opportunities. The most important thing is to be smart and stand alone in a cold corner.
"The better the work, the less chance it will be sold. Excellent people are always superior to the public, and their works will only be popular if they are appreciated for a long time.
"Muhammad called the mountain and said," Don't come, I'll come! "
"French idiom: Time is a great teacher.
"Flo Lena is 16 years old and very thin. Her beauty is like a budding bud, which can only be appreciated by artists who prefer manuscripts to finished drawings. This charming actress shows subtlety everywhere between her looks, much like Goethe's lost mother.
"As long as he can gouge out the eyes of his' good' friend, he will gouge out one himself.
"Two little Vernon's ugly like a sore on a tree.
"Such a woman (Cora Li, Lv Xian's lover) can seize the weakest place in a man's heart and have a set of submissive soft skills to cater to men's lazy habits, and their strength comes from this.
"democritus (5th century BC, Greek philosopher) said: Truth is hidden in the bottom of the well, unfathomable, and there is little hope of digging it out.
"The example of a poor sketch being modified and turning the stone into gold is always more meaningful than theory and criticism."