"When the Human Stars Shine" by the famous Austrian writer Stefan Zweig contains 15 of his historical features, each showing us 15 moments that determine the history of the world. In these 15 The most historic moment, the stars twinkle, that moment is eternity.

When the stars shine, I thought they must be recording those people with outstanding achievements. However, that is not entirely true. Although those stars that shined made the sky clear and the jade sky clear at that moment, it is also possible that Just one, maybe tiny, inconspicuous star flashed at that moment, changed many things, and then disappeared without a trace. Just like the fall of the thousand-year empire Byzantium, it was because the nameless star forgot to close the Kelka door, pushing Byzantium into the abyss of destruction the second it opened; Balboa looked at the Pacific Ocean where the water and sky were the same color; Handel's miraculous Resurrection of the spirit; Goethe's love tragedy in old age; Napoleon's minute at Waterloo and Rouge's divine creation of "Marseillaise"

The biographies are not all about those who were deified, but there are also some It is close to the mentality of a little person but for various reasons some brilliant or extraordinary people have been left behind. For example, Balboa has an almost instinctive desire for the future and wealth. This unlofty original intention will, to some extent, prompt him to make greater discoveries and force him to move forward. Although Balboa longed to be admired for his great exploits in discovering the Pacific. But at the same time, his shortcomings are too obvious, and his advantages and disadvantages are very clear, but real human nature cannot be as white as paper or as black as ink; another example is that Rouget, the creator of "La Marseillaise", was born when the song was born. Then it stopped shining. He lived a depraved life, hiding from debts, and even spent time in jail. Rouge's songs were sung, but he was forgotten. Even when he died, no one knew who he was. It was not until the First World War that his name was recalled. Rouget was a genius only on the night he composed "La Marseillaise".

In this book, there are many words that shocked me, such as Handel’s inner monologue: Sleep! Go to sleep! When you fall asleep, you can forget everything, and when you fall asleep, you can forget any pain; the greatest happiness for a person is to be creative in the middle of life and discover his mission in this life; in a nation, only one person appears among millions of people. Genius, millions of idle hours in this world pass before a real historical moment begins.