I read Goethe's talk two days ago, and I read more than ten pages. I can't help looking back to see who the translator is. Zhu Guangqian, um, I can't accept it.
Nothing is straightforward, but it is as heavy as a ripe fruit that does not fall to the ground.
Reading this book, as Goethe said, "In the last two broken centuries, life itself has become so weak, where can we meet a pure and original person?" Where is enough strength to be an honest man? What is it? "
It is often said that art is a fog cover, and it is especially kind to see such words. "I just have the courage to write down my feelings honestly ... let me feel the pain of my flesh and force me to create Witt. I have lived, loved and suffered. This is the key."
The speaker and the translator are always dull and profound.
Zhu Guangqian, for me, has always been a textbook figure, and so has Goethe. He always feels that there are hundreds of thousands of miles apart. As soon as I heard someone solemnly say, "How's the old gentleman?", I felt very distant and didn't like watching it. So all I know is that they exist.
Zhu once wrote a story. Some people say that he and his sister lived in a family for more than twenty years, and he didn't "see" her until their mother died.
Knowing and seeing are two different things.
02
I met him again in Liu Ju River yesterday.
Zhu Guangqian, president of Wu Da University, written by Qi Bangyuan in the war, was famous all over the world at that time. He deliberately found this freshman and asked her to transfer a foreign language from the philosophy department, saying, "Now Wu Da has moved to such a remote place, and some courses in the philosophy department can't be opened. I read your composition, you are too sentimental, and it seems that you are not suitable for philosophy. If you transfer to the Foreign Languages Department, I can be your tutor. You can ask me any questions at any time. "
Zhu's class is an "English poetry treasure house", and she is required to recite every poem. 1945, before the war was over, Qi Bangyuan and several girls in the same class were walking on Baita Street, passing the wet Shuiximen, and the ground was covered with thin ice, reciting Shelley's Depression. "There is a line in the third paragraph, which appropriately tells the feeling that I couldn't say at that time,' There is no inner peace, no external peace'."
At that time, Zhu Guang "didn't mention a word" in class, but one day he talked about Wordsworth's "Margaret's Sorrow" and wrote about a woman whose son had not been heard from for seven years, saying that China's ancient poems had similar words: "There are birds in the wind and clouds, and Jianghan has no beams", and even the words choked him. He paused and continued reading.
After reading the last two sentences, "If there is a chance to see them, they are pitty me, not my sadness", he took off his glasses, tears rolled down his cheeks, suddenly closed the book, and quickly walked out of the classroom, leaving a room full of surprise and no one to talk.
Qi Bangyuan, who is in her eighties, has been wandering from place to place all her life, but she always remembers this moment. "Even in the most desperate poems, there seems to be a strong vitality ... life has no end. In any case, string songs are the biggest reliance for me to live. "
03
Zhu Guangqian is a sensitive person. A student came to his house and tried to clean the fallen leaves in the yard, but he stopped him. "I can finally hear the rain." But he doesn't have decadent and sentimental romanticism. He likes all the interests of life.
He wrote about a diplomat. He didn't need a bare chin, but he was always good at wiggling his chin on his cheek. Some people don't like it and think it's bureaucratic, but it's interesting and harmonious for him. He also wrote that an English writer was traveling with several women, while others looked at the women around him. The screenwriter was unhappy and looked "Hum, some people in other places look at me like this". He loves these details, only observing and not judging easily, but there is a power here.
When his students first met him, they said, "He stared at you, even at you. You seem to feel that every wrinkle in your mind has been seen through by him. To be honest, you didn't feel comfortable at first. "
He keeps in touch with all kinds of people and tendencies, and keeps understanding, but whoever enters this mind will show his true colors and cannot be mystified.
"The first thing I asked was logical. Before I say one thing, I must make my thoughts clear and understand them before readers can understand them. It is easy to make mistakes and get away with it. On the surface, it is grand and sonorous, but it is unintelligible, and there are contradictions hidden in the bones. I know that beware of it is due to foreign language training. I like the clarity that the French advocate. "
He has been a student in several universities in Europe for 14 years, dissecting sharks, making stained slices, reading architectural history, studying symbolic names, testing psychological reactions with chimneys and electric reaction tables, and not specializing in art. Such people tear off the scary face of the pasted art when writing and translating, and have the honesty of a child.
He wrote a literary review and wrote that Song Shenzong once saw Su Zizhan's words, "If you want to go home by the wind, you will be afraid of a beautiful building, and the heights will be too cold." "Loyalty and patriotism are beyond words!" When he saw this, he said directly that it was "disgusting".
So he wrote, "I should thank literature and art for many things, especially for teaching me a way of looking at the world." ..... Anyone who can't keep a calm and objective attitude has the problem of taking' I' too seriously. They looked at the world with my color telescope, and everything lost its original appearance. "
04
1929 When social trends call for students to exercise everywhere, he always warns young people to be careful. "At the crossroads, customs have the greatest authority.
There are two kinds of customs, one is tradition and the other is fashion. Confucian ethics, wonton in Wufangzhai, is a tradition; The new culture movement, Sima Lu's new clothes, is a fashion. Legend has it that respecting the old and loving the young makes the fashion new. Although the old and the new are different, it is basically the same if you blindly follow the trend without thinking. "
He said, "The strong clamor, the weak echo, the old blindly follow the legend, the new blindly follow the fashion, learn from each other, and go from bad to worse, while the shallow, stubborn, hypocritical and cruel society is out of control."
Therefore, he wants to call for breaking all idols ideologically, but "breaking idols is not a reckless shouting thing, it is still a feature of Crossroads." He said that we should be able to express ourselves freely in the noise and not wander under the influence of the crossroads.
So he wrote why aesthetics should be studied. Beauty is invisible, but "it extends sympathy, expands imagination and increases the profound and true understanding of human physics." These three things are the foundation of all true morality. In history, when many moral creeds lack such a foundation, they will be dominated by shallowness and arbitrariness and become narrow, hypocritical and cruel shackles. "
Cai Yuanpei said that a nation without aesthetics is ignorant of good and evil, so their generation tried to plant grass all over the wilderness, burning new green into sand, and others planted it in the dark.
1947, Zhu Guangqian wrote an article saying that the essence of literature and art is freedom. "Literature and art are not only truly free movements, but also forces that make people free."
He was tortured for believing in such freedom. When he was criticized in Peking University Square, people at the scene later wrote that "the white hair on his sparse head trembled in the cold wind". Before he died, a student went to see him, and he wrote, "Wildfire will not completely devour them, but they will be tall again in the spring breeze."
05
His nanny once said: Mr. Zhu is at home, and even the two cats dare to bully him. He has an armchair, where he sits while writing. Two cats often go there to rest. Sometimes when he passes by, two cats don't dodge. He waved and said, "Go away! Go away! " But two cats ignored him.
Zhu Guangqian's daughter recalled that during the 10 catastrophe, "sometimes after dinner, buyers came and seven or eight-year-old children broke into the house:" Zhu Guangqian, stand up, stand up! Honestly! "Sometimes I can't stand it:" Can't you just let him finish his meal? " "No, we haven't eaten yet! "
Goodness itself is extremely weak, but it is invincible. My daughter said that Zhu Guangqian is a stubborn person. "Although he has gone through hardships, he will stick to it as long as he believes that it is the right thing.
In the 1980s, his daughter advised him: "Don't mess up your aesthetics. What exercise did you do to keep you? " ! Doing it again just proves that when the exercise comes again, it will make you perish. "Zhu Guangqian said:" Some things look useless now, but they will be needed in the future. Academic research is always useful. I want to do it when possible. "
The daughter said, "haven't you had enough?"
Zhu Guangqian said: "I don't do it, no one does it."
Throughout his life, he adhered to his motto "This body, this time and this place"
This body means that no matter what the body should do or can do, it will never be passed on to others.
At this time, it means that what should be done at this time and what can be done should never be put off until the future.
What it means here is that what should and can be done here will never wait for a better situation.
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