My fate will be closely linked with touching legends and follow my own beliefs-this will be my life's behavior.
Those years ..... have drifted away in endless fantasy, or should we carve an eternal record in the vast world?
Don Quixote, an old squire with the soul of a great knight, is thinking hard about an ideal that no one can understand. In the mediocre reality-dreaming unrealistic dreams, he is looking for dreams. How wonderful the past was, knights, princesses, horses and dragons. How bleak it is now, the gentry in the village, the girls in the village, mules and sheep. At this moment, who is running around crying in the world? Who is running amok in the world? You open your eyes-all you see is a cry of pity for the weak. You close your eyes, and all you can hear is the roaring storm of wild animals. The world needs to be saved, and the great Don Quixote knight is needed. Don Quixote and Sancho began their great exploration. They are so ridiculous, but their hearts are so serious. Poor Sancho. He doesn't know anything. Oh! It doesn't matter, because he believes that he believes that his master promised him an island, just as he believes that he can get heaven after he dies. The windmill in the field is an unscrupulous giant in his eyes, with a long arm whistling and dancing. Fighting is fate's best arrangement for the knight. "God, God, Lord, help him ..." With Sancho's cheers, Don Quixote picked up his spear and rushed to the windmill ...! Don Quixote and Ma Fei went to heaven, but what they flew up was a dream, and what they fell down was real land. Tell me what happened. The wizard's jealousy must have turned the giant into a windmill.
Good words and sentences:
1, don't put your eggs in one basket;
2. Greet the tragic misfortune with a smiling face. A great mind should show such a spirit-deal with all misfortunes with a hundred times of courage.
The ancients said that the century and era of happiness is the golden age, not because gold was very precious in our iron age, and it was readily available at that time. People call it the golden age because people living in that era don't have the concepts of you and me. In that sacred era, everything was * * *. Anyone who wants to get basic food can get sweet fruit from the lush sacred oak tree without blowing off dust. A steady stream of clear springs and rivers provide sweet and clear drinking water. Hard-working and witty bees set up their own country in a tree hole in a crack, and selflessly dedicated the sweet fruits of harvest to everyone. The stout Castanopsis eyrei tree gracefully shed its broad and light bark and built a house on a simple wooden stake to shelter people from the wind and rain.
Reflections on Reading: Three Faces of the World
The first type: Don Quixote style;
The second type: Sancho Panza style;
The third kind: narrator/reader.
Feng Zhi said: "The same color as flowers, what I see visually is different from yours;" The sound that pops up on the same sanxian is different from mine in your hearing; The so-called mutual understanding is impossible. "We can understand that the world in everyone's eyes is so different.
The first is idealism, or romanticism. The second is what we call realism or pragmatism. Third, let's call it objectivism.
The third kind of people laugh at the first kind of people because of a ridiculous and naive sense of self-superiority. We think that Bitang Quixote is sober and rational. In fact, the third kind of person is just a drifter. There is no clear and consistent position and viewpoint. Sometimes I look down on Sancho's utility and reality with Don Quixote's idealism. Sometimes I laugh at Don Quixote's unrealistic fantasies with Sancho's eyes.
Kundera said that we are always hovering between Shuaike's lack of seriousness and K's being too serious. So, can we also say that we are also wandering between Don Quixote and Sancho? Who dares to say that he has no shadow of Don Quixote and Sancho?
Besides, isn't all human knowledge actually Don Quixote? Isn't it human nature to be familiar with strangers and assimilate people of different natures? We will always cover, absorb and assimilate the infinite and unknown with limited known knowledge and concepts. A world that is absolutely objective, real and independent of human will has never existed, at least it has never appeared. We all live in a huge network of words, symbols and concepts. Naming is full of violence, randomness and contingency without exception. Naming can make the strange world no longer scary, thus gaining a sense of self-security.
The preface of this book is unusual and comes from a great irony. Few people can escape the ironic arrow shot by Cervantes.
Thoughts after reading: stranded narrative art and Cervantes' unfinished business
Kundera once felt in the curtain that the narrative art of Don Quixote and tom jones had been strangely stranded for centuries. As the novel turns into the era of fine description, it is shrouded in the shadow of "history". (to this effect)
This work, written at the beginning of17th century (1605- 16 15, published successively), can be written as a book in terms of its narrative skills.
It has four or more levels of "reality": implied author, narrator, virtual author, virtual translator and protagonist. There are encounters, intersections and contrasts between the fictional hero and the "real" hero through the narrative layer. There is a fictional level, at which the protagonist comments, corrects and defends another "unreliable" fictional level. There are jumps and changes of the narrator. There is a narrator's argument about his own narrative (by fabricating the translator to achieve a reasonable effect). There are pre-narration, supplementary narration and interpolation. There is an incomplete set of boxes (this is not entirely the result of the dislocation of each layer, which is carried forward in the post-modern text and becomes invisible) and a collage story structure. There are corrections and excuses from the lower part to the upper part, and there are discussions on the narrative techniques of the upper part. It even simply writes the reader's reaction into the lower part to form a dialogue with the reader.
Besides, this is a rough and cunning book. Cervantes defended himself because his attitude towards his hero, master and servant, changed greatly in his writing. In the second part, he described the teasing of master and servant too much. Although this kind of excessive teasing can always produce amusing effect, because the image of master and servant is getting out of the author's control, this arrangement of the protagonist's fate is too mean, cruel and inhuman, which makes people laugh. The author cleverly sided with the readers, accusing the people who played tricks on them of being more stupid and crazy than them, and giving them some dignity.
There is no doubt that Don Quixote is a heartbreaking real knight. Before his death, the author made him awake to the world according to the expected purpose, saw the "truth" of "knight novels make people crazy" and knew that there was never any knight in the world, and there is no knight now. Knight novels may really disappear, which comes from the deconstructive power of parody and irony. However, what makes people feel sad is that Don Quixote, who is gentle and affectionate and chivalrous and talented, has fallen into a more terrible and despicable world. Is this the world the author wants to see and expect him to live in?
When Don Quixote was "crazy", everything in the world was "possessed". He used this word to explain the ugliness of the world. Explain why his sweetheart is a village girl, why the giant's head is a wine bag, why the army is a flock, and why the giant is a windmill. In that "possessed" world, Sancho can also become the ruler of the island, all ideals can be realized, and all injustices can be eradicated. The people who played tricks on him induced him to make comments, and every word came from talent and self-esteem. As the spokesman of "fantasy+action", Don Quixote is not a madman, but a soldier and artist, a hero and a poet, a combination of the best words in the world and the owner of the best quality in the world. Unfortunately, the earl couple who like to play tricks on him are the worst characters in the whole story. They seem sober, but in fact they are cruel politicians and rulers, persecuting artists and fighters and taking pleasure in manipulating the fate of others. The author's attitude towards them is not clear enough, which is probably the reason why this book is criticized for being cruel. In addition, Don's friends, Samson, priest and barber, induced him to return to China from the beginning of burning down the study to playing the mirror knight and Bai Yue knight, so that Don Quixote died of depression. They tore up the soldier's dream and destroyed the other side of his fantasy world. It is this gap from the underworld, the heroic world to the mortal world and the real world that caused Don Quixote's death and the complete end of this dreamlike story. As Tang's friends, they don't know how to love him and how to save him, just like waking a sleepwalker by the window and letting him fall down and die because of fear. This is a complete tragedy, ending with the absolute power of this world overwhelming the fantasy world obsessed by soldiers and poets. In addition, the details of this book are full of problems, the mastery of the protagonist is too autocratic or careless, the attitude towards the fate of the characters is too cruel, and the protagonist is endowed with too many virtues, which leads to self-contradiction. Especially in the second half, it can't make people laugh at all, but it makes people worry, frown and hate their guts. All this is related to the author's absolute original intention: "to eliminate knight novels". Under the cover of this cunning original intention, many ingredients that should be injected have been lost before injection, which is the regret of the author and works, and also the reason why Nabokov tore up the book.
It is important to pay attention to narrative skills. However, under this concern, especially when the narrative is entrusted to a fictional narrator, the responsibility of the implied author has not been diluted and passed on. On the contrary, it will attract more attention from readers and should be cautious. This is an important factor to measure whether a writer is strong or not.
Finally, Nabokov's praise for Don Quixote is attached. Applicable to all talented, self-respecting and "magical" poets who have been teased by fate: "His coat of arms is pity, his banner is beauty, and he represents all the qualities called elegance, loneliness, purity, selflessness and courage".
Excerpts from beautiful passages in Don Quixote, and 2 excerpts from good sentences:
1. Freedom is a priceless treasure given by heaven, and all the wealth buried underground and in Haiti is unparalleled. Freedom is as worth risking your life as decency. Being enslaved without freedom is the hardest thing.
2. Fate rotates like the wheel of a waterwheel. Yesterday was superior, today is inferior.
3. I know that recklessness and cowardice are both shortcomings; The virtue of courage is a compromise between these two extremes. However, it is better to be fearless than timid. Spending money is closer to the virtue of generosity than meanness, and recklessness is closer to real courage than cowardice.
4. Love is seeing things with glasses. Brass is regarded as gold, poverty as wealth, and spots in the eyes as pearls.
5. "God bless, people who marry beautiful women should be careful what friends they bring home and what kind of female companions their wives associate with."
6. A woman who has not been pursued by others may not be as virtuous as she looks. Only in the face of a lover who is obsessed with death, a woman who is not moved by promises, gifts and tears can be regarded as truly loyal and reliable.
7. Let me tell you something, my friend. Women are imperfect products. You can't deliberately set obstacles to make her stumble. Instead, you can clear away obstacles and all the stumbling blocks on the road, so that she can reach a perfect state with no effort, that is, become a virtuous and chaste woman.
8. "Care and care for women must be the same as care and care for a garden full of flowers. The host must not allow outsiders to go in and pick them. They can only stand in the distance and enjoy the beauty and fragrance of the garden through the iron fence. "
9. Love sometimes flies in the sky and sometimes walks underground; Let you ache all over and let him die; Sometimes a person just wants to jump on him, but he forgets in a blink of an eye; Sometimes you attack the fortress in the morning and take it down at night. No one can stop it.
10, the road to virtue is narrow, and the road to evil virtue is broad.
Reading comprehension:
Don Quixote is a classic of Cervantes, a famous Spanish writer, and one of the 20 landmark works in Spanish history. After reading this book, the biggest gain is to learn to correctly treat the contradiction between ideal and reality.
Don Quixote de la Mancha, formerly known as Alenso Jihada, is a native of rural Kunming. He was fascinated by the popular knight stories at that time, and he wanted to imitate knight errants himself. He found a pair of tattered armor from the family's antiquities and named it Don Quixote. He also found Sancho, a servant, and Dulcinea, a milkmaid from a neighboring village, as his Prince Charming, to serve him all his life. Then get on the thin horse and run away from home. Don Quixote also acted according to the strange ideas in his mind, taking the windmill as a giant, the sheep as an enemy, the convict as a victim knight, and the wine bag as a giant's head. He hacked and killed indiscriminately, causing many ridiculous things. His behavior is not only useless to people, but also beaten. He was bedridden when he came home for the last time and didn't realize it until he died. He made a will that if the only heir niece married a knight, she would be disinherited.
When I first saw this work, I just didn't find it funny. The horse looks gaunt, and it is also a thin Don Quixote, wearing armor and holding a shield, completely immersed in narcissism. He went crazy, and his strange behavior made people even more ridiculous. But on closer examination, the article shines with the light of humanity everywhere. Even though he was terminally ill, Don Quixote did not give up his persistent pursuit of freedom and ideals. He windmill, in addition to violence, killing sheep. He did a lot of incredible ridiculous things, and he still held his head high in the face of people's ridicule. I never feel that I am wrong. Especially in this passage, when Don Quixote saw the icons of ancient knights, he said: "These saints and knights walked with me when they were alive, which was a heroic battle. The difference between me and them is that they are saints and fight for Shinto. I am a mortal, fighting for mankind. They won the kingdom of heaven by virtue of their bravery, because it takes hard work to enter; And I, until today, I still don't know what my efforts have paid ... "Yes, I won't get too much glory or happiness because of such a dream. However, is it a sin to dream like this? By the way, shouldn't people have such ideals? But what does reality tell us? It said, "no".