These 6 books that reveal the truth about human nature will "ruin your three views"
"Confessions" author: Jean-Jacques Rousseau Douban rating; 8.4
Reason for recommendation:
Luo Xiang once commented on this book in his video: It’s so disgusting! How can someone analyze their soul to this extent? Write their own voice, cheat, steal, and engage in My brother’s wife simply dug out all the dark, dirty, and twisted private thoughts!
This man was also Rousseau, the great teacher of the French Enlightenment! Only later did I understand the profound meaning of this great man. Using yourself as a specimen, dissect human nature with the most sincere attitude...
"Blindness" author: José Saramago
Douban score: 9.1
Reason for recommendation:
A group of people suffering from contagious blindness were quarantined in their cities in order to avoid spreading the disease. In the quarantine area, a series of inhumane scenes of purgatory were staged.
The guards use the patient's life as a bargaining chip in the game, the patients' internal transactions for food, the cliques that bully each other... I thought of a previous movie about human experimentation, and I couldn't stand it. The test of human nature~
Someone asked the author: Why did you write such a cold work? He said: "Although I live a good life, the world is not good
"Notes from the Basement" Author: Dostoevsky
Douban rating: 9.3
Reason for recommendation
A 40-year-old retired civil servant looks back on his decades In his life, he found that it was all about subtleties and compromises, and any casual words from his friends would be considered insulting to him; the relationship between his friends and him was getting warmer, and he felt that he was not worthy of it. Every time he bowed to give way to his superiors, it made him unhappy, but he still felt uncomfortable. I can only complain secretly
Isn’t it just like countless people in real life who are experiencing inner struggles~
Franzo, the author of "Snake Knot" Val Mauriac
Douban score: 8.9
Reason for recommendation:
This is a confession book of a "bastard". The protagonist is selfish, despicable, mean and venomous. , hating everyone around him! When he was 68 years old, he wrote this "suicide note". In one stroke, he madly accused his wife and children, hating his wife for giving all her love to her children, and hating her children for caring about them. You are obsessed with your own property and hate everything in the world, but a book full of malice is a Nobel Prize-winning masterpiece!
The more you desire something, the easier it is to become vulnerable
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The author of "Red and Black": Stendhal
Douban score: 8.8
Reason for recommendation
Adapted from a real criminal case in 1830 "Red and Black" was first published. Because it exposed the complexity of human nature too sharply and straightforwardly, the author Stendhal was reviled. However, the author calmly said, "My work will be understood in 50 years. Sure enough, in In the following century and a half, this book became one of the world's famous works that everyone knows!
The author of "Shame": J.M. Coetzee
Douban score: 8.8
Reason for recommendation:
Nobel Prize winner JM Coetzee’s masterpiece! This book single-handedly digs out human nature to the point of pus!--(How perverted can a person be? A South African school professor who became infatuated with his female student and eventually took her forcibly as his own. After being reported, the professor was fired and moved to his daughter's house. As a result, he witnessed his daughter being raped by local Africans. He changed from an amiable professor to a devil who liked to call his daughter a "slut."