Stephen? Zweig (188 1- 1942), a famous Austrian writer, novelist and biographer, was born in a Jewish family in Vienna. He is good at using various genres and has written a lot in his life.
When the Stars Shine is a close-up collection of his history.
In the long history of more than 5,000 years, many outstanding great men have been born and countless earth-shattering events have taken place: there have been glories and gloom; There has been passion and despair; There are successes and failures. A far-reaching decision is often associated with a date, an hour, even a minute or even a second. Such a dramatic moment is also "the time when human stars shine." Zweig's When the Stars Shine is a book that reveals these special moments.
As a historical close-up, Zweig, on the basis of being loyal to history and truth, used artistic means such as atmosphere rendering, environmental contrast and psychological depiction to portray completely different characters and show a colorful historical picture. As written in this book, the fall of Byzantium, the genius author of La Marseillaise, Napoleon's Battle of Waterloo, crossing the ocean and Lenin's tortuous road are all fascinating and gripping.
Preface 1.
No artist is an artist 24 hours a day. Everything an artist creates is important and lasting, and it is always done in a rare moment full of inspiration.
There is only one genius among millions of people in a nation; Millions of leisure time in the world have passed, and only then will there be a truly historic moment, a moment when human stars shine.
They shine like stars, they are eternal and light up the illusory night.
I. Escape to Immortality-Discover the Pacific Ocean (25 September 2003, 1565438)
Equip the ship.
Background: Columbus, a talented visionary, enthusiastically boasted about his first triumphant return after discovering America, which triggered the fantasy of all evil careerists in Spain, who flocked to the fleet for the second voyage. They didn't find peanuts in Hispaniola, and they were too lazy to work, so they wanted to escape to the ship of Martin Fernandez de Enciso to colonize.
1. The man in the wooden box
A powerful German shepherd found a 35-year-old man hiding in a box, and the captain wanted to kill him. Colonies no longer exist, and balboa suggested that this group of people go to a place called Darien.
2. Increased danger
The discipline and order of bachelor Enciso could not control this land, but Barber replaced him as the real master here. Enciso drowned in the escape. In order to atone for the royal family, Barber began to try his best to get close to gold. Later, I got news of Huang Jinguo from the most powerful Indian chief.
The chief looked at the farce with both novelty and contempt: this is the eternal surprise of fools to civilized people at the ends of the earth. In the eyes of these civilized people, a handful of yellow metal is more precious than all the spiritual and technological achievements of their civilization.
Balboa knew very well that in order to atone for his sins and gain immortal glory and reputation, he had to take action: he wanted to be the first person to cross the Panamanian isthmus to reach the South China Sea leading to India, and at the same time occupied New Ophir for the Spanish royal family. This moment in the home of Chief Comalai decided balboa's fate. From this moment on, the life of this adventurer who came out to hit the Universiade has a lofty and eternal significance.
3. Escape to the immortal cause.
Balboa gave one-fifth of the gold that should be handed over to the court according to law to Pasamonte, the court finance minister on Hispaniola Island. He also gave the finance minister a large sum of money and obtained a useless temporary document. And sent his confidant to give full play to his merits and contributions to North Korea. Report the news of Huang Jinguo and apply for 1000 troops. The news is not good. He wants to escape to an immortal career.
4. Eternal moments
After 18 days of hard March, balboa led 67 men to the top of the mountain with the help of Indians, becoming the first European to witness the Pacific Ocean.
The most serious difficulties seem to have been overcome; The ridge in front of them has risen. According to the Indian tour guide, you can see the Atlantic Ocean and the nameless Pacific Ocean from the top of the mountain. An indescribable picture unfolded before him. Behind the sloping mountains and lush descending hills, what I can see is the huge flat plates of India and China reflecting metallic luster: ocean, ocean! This new, unknown ocean, which has fascinated people so far, but no one can see its true meaning, this legendary ocean that Columbus and his successors have been searching hard for many years but in vain, and this one is beating America with waves? Ocean.
5. Gold and pearls
They robbed or exchanged some gold from some aborigines, and even received a lot of pearls from some nearby islands. One of the most beautiful ones once decorated the gate between the Spanish royal family and the British royal family. Balboa stared into the distance, lost in fantasy about Huang Jinguo.
6. The gods seldom bless
During the four-month arduous return trip, he returned to Darien and fulfilled his original promise. However, he did not gain the full trust of the royal family. He was frightened by the decentralization of power in the colonies. He started his second great escape, trying to build a ship, but failed.
sink
Due to the betrayal of his subordinate Pizarro, balboa's head fell to the ground after a fast and unreasonable so-called rebellion trial presided over by Governor Pedra. Pizarro is happy to finish his unfinished business.
Feelings: the great cause is actually created because of escape. Only escape and love can produce immortal strength and achieve extraordinary career. What else motivates people to move forward?
Second, the fall of Byzantium1May 29, 453
Recognize the danger
? Ruler of the Ottoman Empire in Mette, Mahon? Turkey Sudan is decisive and cruel 2 1 year old
Outstanding political and diplomatic skills
Byzantine Empire is the Eastern Roman Empire.
The purple robe of Constantine Dragas, the last Byzantine emperor, is nothing but a coat woven by the breeze, and his crown is nothing but a mockery of fate.
A lot of reconciliation
Greek-speaking priests don't really want to bow down. Similarly, friends on the other side of the Mediterranean forgot their promised assistance, only sent a few rowing boats and hundreds of soldiers, and then left this lonely city, at the mercy of fate.
The war began.
Sudan personally directed the construction project and worked day and night. Byzantium watched others default and blocked its free passage to the Black Sea.
1452 in August, Mahon met a civilian military commander and publicly announced his intention to attack Byzantium. Violence began shortly after the announcement.
Walls and cannons
Byzantium at this time had only one power, and this was its wall. Its past once covered the whole world, but a relatively great and happy era left it only a little legacy.
They all calculated that the cannons used so far could not destroy the walls of Khodorkovsky.
Thus, shortly after Sudan declared war, Urbas, a Hungarian with unparalleled creativity and rich experience, was born.
A whole civilian team, a whole army, dragged this stiff long-necked behemoth for two months.
Hope again
Suddenly a terrible thing happened. The wind suddenly stopped. Only 100 meters away from the safe harbor, four paddles were attracted by magnets and did not move.
Suddenly, there was a slight rustle and the wind blew suddenly. The weak sails of the four big ships suddenly bulged and flapped. The wind, the wind that people yearn for and pray for, is awake again! The bow of the rowing boat rose triumphantly, suddenly started, rushed over and left the surrounding boats behind. They are free. They were saved.
The fleet climbed mountains and mountains
As night falls, the sight is blurred, and this incredible roaming begins. As unknown as all great undertakings, as thoughtful as all wise things, the miracle of miracles was completed: a fleet crossed the mountains.
Help, Europe!
Look, a miracle happened. The boat went unnoticed, crossed the Da Daniil Strait and entered the Aegean Sea. It is extraordinary courage that paralyzes the enemy. Mahon Mette thought of everything, but he didn't expect such an unimaginable thing: twelve warriors and a solitary sail dared to break through his fleet and sail like Argo.
Eve of the general attack
But in the middle of the night, with the command of Mahon Mette, all the lights suddenly went out together, and Qian Qian absolutely knew that the warm noise suddenly disappeared. This sudden silence and heavy darkness, with a decisive threat, make those who are distracted and absorbed feel more terrible than noisy lights and enthusiastic cheers.
The last mass of Hagia Sophia.
Uninterrupted prayers are like surging waves in the huge hall, spinning up to the high vault. The last requiem mass of the Eastern Roman Empire began.
Kay kaptar, the forgotten door
However, here, Kai Capota's small gate is like a festival, a scene of peaceful rise and opening to the city center. It's ridiculous. They can't believe it. They immediately called for reinforcements, and without any resistance, the whole army broke into the inner city and raided the defenders who were still in the dark from behind.
The cross fell.
Mankind will never fully know what a terrible disaster it was to invade through Kai Capota's open door at that decisive moment. How much precious wealth has the spiritual world lost because of the looting of Rome, Alexandria and Byzantium!
Feeling: In the face of this vigorous war, the war of faith and the war of human nature, we see people's excitement and excitement, but who can forgive the small loophole that led to the collapse of the building?
Three. The Resurrection of Gandel (1741August 2 1)
Afternoon 1737
Brooke street apartment
German? George Friedrich Ferdinand Prinz von Preu?en Gandel, 52, was paralyzed on his right side by a stroke.
A footman?
Master's assistant Christopher? Schmidt
Duke of Chandos
Dr Jenkins
Always angry
Once upon a time, a gentleman felt that he was imprisoned in an invisible grave and could do nothing.
Just like the mysterious underground hot spring, there is elusive vitality in the rigid body, which is Handel's will. His original vitality, untouched by a devastating blow, still refuses to give up the pursuit of "immortality" in his dying body. Because men don't want to bow their heads and admit defeat. He must live, he must create. This will finally overcame the laws of nature and created a miracle.
He tried to touch the keys with his left hand. The organ sounded, and the sound of the piano was clear and pure, flowing in the waiting hall. Hesitated, the right hand that has been frozen for a long time and is useless for a long time should also try. Look, the piano played by the right hand is also like a silver spring. Gradually, he began to improvise, and the sound of the piano took him to the swift Haochuan River. The speakers are wonderfully built and stacked by themselves, reaching places with poor eyesight. He was the ethereal pavilion that day, rising higher and higher, dazzling, without a shadow. This is the ethereal and bright light of music.
1740, Handel felt that he was a conquered man and a defeated man, which made him famous for a time and became slag and ashes.
Handel quickly grabbed the quill pen and wrote down the music score. As if driven by the gods, the notes rushed to the pen very quickly. He couldn't stop, as if he had been taken away by a ship sailing alone in the storm. Surrounded by a quiet night, the sky over this big city is wet, dark and silent. However, in his mind, the light is surging, and the cosmic music that others can't hear is ringing in this room.
I don't want money for this job. I never charge a penny for this job. Never. I still owe another man a debt. At any time, it belongs to patients and prisoners. I once wrote about prisoners myself, and it saved me.
The floodgates have been opened. The river of vocal music flows year after year. From then on, nothing can make Gandel bow and yield, nothing can make Gandel bow and yield, and nothing can make the resurrected lose the courage to live again.
On April 13, Han Deer was exhausted. He can't see or hear anything, and his huge body is lying motionless on the mattress, which is already an empty and heavy body. Just like an empty shell making the sound of the sea, there is inaudible music in his heart, which is more strange and magnificent than any sound he has ever heard in his life. The gradual strengthening of urging makes the soul slowly get rid of the tired body and send it to weightlessness. The sound of waves bursts, and the eternal sound floats on the eternal realm. The next day, before the Easter bell rang, George Friedrich Ferdinand Prinz von Preu?en? Handel is gone. Messiah (the savior expected by Jews)
Feelings: Faith and career give people the courage to come back to life and the comfort of safe death. I sincerely envy this kind of happiness. At the same time, the use of contrast and metaphor is also fascinating.
Fourth, the night genius "La Marseillaise"1792 April 25.
On April 20, when the French king finally declared war on the Austrian emperor and the Prussian king, it became a relief, as is often the case with major choices.
Especially in Alsace, it is known that Germany and France have always made the first decision on this land.
Mayor Dietrich? Ask captain rouge? Write a war song for the Rhine army that will leave for the front tomorrow.
Lu Ri's lyrics and music are written faster and faster, as if listening to someone else's dictation-a storm that his narrow civic mind has never experienced has hit him. A kind of extreme excitement, a kind of passion that doesn't belong to me, and a kind of fantastic power condensed in only one explosive second, which lifted the poor amateur author a thousand times and shot him out like a rocket, reaching the starry sky, shining with brilliant brilliance and flame in an instant. Ruzid? Captain Lille became one of the immortals overnight: the original sounds in the streets and newspapers were absorbed and used for reference, forming creative lyrics, which were sublimated into verse, and words were as immortal as tunes.
So the song spread like an avalanche, and the process of victory was unstoppable. This song was sung at banquets, theaters and clubs, and even later in church. After the Thanksgiving hymn, it quickly replaced the Thanksgiving hymn. A month or two later, La Marseillaise became a song of the people and the whole army.
So "La Marseillaise", like Nikki, the winged goddess of victory, soared over all the battles in France, making countless people excited and countless people killed in battle.
From there, as if from a forgotten grave, I heard the news about the fate of his immortal songs.
In this way, the author of an immortal famous song was finally buried in the honor cemetery of his disappointed motherland, but only as a unique one-night poet.
Feeling:
Great works ride the storm of the times and meet an ordinary writer. The wind blowing in the eardrum and the flowers blooming in the heart storm all night! Know what? Know what? It should be green, fat, red and thin.
Verb (abbreviation of verb) The decisive moment of Waterloo (Napoleon 181June 0518)
At this time, the important task of participating in the World Heroes' Club always makes such people feel more frightened than happy, and almost always tremble and miss their fate.
joyless
Napoleon, the captured lion, won the prison on the island of Elba. The news was like a roaring shell, which entered all the dances, infidelity, intrigues and quarrels during the Vienna Conference.
Grouchy was not a hero or a strategist, but a loyal, honest and reliable mediocre man, which Napoleon knew very well.
He is not used to acting independently, and his thinking lacks originality. Only when the emperor's genius ordered him to take action did he feel at ease. In addition, he felt that there was dissatisfaction behind his generals. Of course, maybe he also felt the flapping of fate's black wings.
Kalou night
There is a continuous rainstorm in the north. Napoleon's army hobbled along in the dark.
The rain gradually stopped. The emperor walked uneasily around the room, staring at the yellow horizon to see if he could finally see the distant scenery and make up his mind.
At five o'clock in the morning, the rain stopped, and the clouds that made him difficult to make up his mind also lifted.
Morning in Waterloo.
This is a gripping work of art, a model of instant fear and countless hopes alternating in the face of extinction. It was the spectacular fireworks in Napoleon's life, spectacular as a rocket, rising to the sky again, then falling trembling and going out forever.
Grouchy's loss
Grouchy hesitated. Accustomed to obeying orders, he timidly insisted on the written authorization of the emperor ordering him to pursue the defeated Pu Jun.
A decisive moment in world history
There was silence around him. The decisive second passed in this silence, and no matter what words or actions, it was impossible to hold them again. Wellington won.
Afternoon in Waterloo
At this time, he found four tigers in the northeast pouring out of the forest with shadows: new troops! All the telescopes turned in that direction at once. Did grouchy arrive in time decisively across the bill? No, a prisoner who was brought here reported that this was the Prussian army, the vanguard of the blucher army.
decisive battle
By midnight, the man covered in dirt, dizzy and exhausted, sitting in a low-level country inn with hangers, was no longer the emperor. His empire, his dynasty, his fate is over: the cowardice of an insignificant little person has destroyed everything that the bravest and most farsighted people have achieved in the past 20 years.
Return to the ordinary
When he restored his font, instead of just following orders, his thoughtfulness, shrewdness, prudence and seriousness, all these great qualities were clearly displayed. Surrounded by five times the enemy's troops, he led the troops to break through and retreat, without losing a soldier and a gun, showing a superb tactical level.
Feeling: Fate played a super joke on Napoleon, the all-around hero, and let him fall into the hands of his designated deputy. Then, he will take responsibility for himself and taste the bitter fruit himself, that is, as a commander in chief, he will know people clearly.
Elegy of intransitive verb Marion Bader (Goethe/Kloc-0 between Carlsbad and Weimar).
It is the deepest and most mature work of the 74-year-old man in his twilight years, shining with the brilliance of autumn.
Now a strange disease has seized all his existence and is shaking him violently in the emotional volcanic world, which is an experience that has not been experienced for several years. The 74-year-old man is addicted to fever like a boy.
When he was young, he was good at hiding. When he was an adult, he was good at abstinence. He usually almost always reveals his deep secrets in the mirror, in the secret code and in the symbol; At this time, he was already a white-haired old man, and for the first time he freely expressed his feelings. In the past 50 years, this temperament person, this great lyric poet, may not be more energetic and energetic than this unforgettable poem and this memorable turning point in life. "
This 8 1 year-old man is engaged in the "most important career" in his life with heroic courage: Faust. He finished the book in the seventh year after Elegy, describing his tragic fate, and immediately signed it with the seal, keeping it secret from the world with the same reverence as Elegy.
Feelings: The life and passion of a hero cannot be calculated by age. In reality, all happiness has versions, including love. When we walk through the vast years, don't lose the ability to love, so as to find the position of people.