Prague, the capital of the Czech Republic, is located in the center of Europe. Geographically, the Czech Republic undoubtedly belongs to Central Europe, but politically, it belongs to Eastern Europe. Eastern Europe is such an artificial historical concept, which includes a vast land and a large population from the east of the Berlin Wall to Russia, as if there is an invisible line that divides Europe in half.
As Haida said, in the short history of 100 years in the 20th century, two great forces swept across Europe. The former forces involved the whole of Europe and even the whole world in endless disasters, while the latter forces were biased towards Eastern Europe.
Haida described herself as a "miniature of history", which is really appropriate: 1944, her parents died in the gas chamber of Auschwitz concentration camp, but she and her husband survived; After Czechoslovakia came to power by the production party, her husband worked in the government and became the deputy minister of foreign trade. However, he was hanged on 1952 12 13 for the trumped-up treason. The pain she suffered was not only her own, but also Prague, the Czech Republic and the whole of Eastern Europe. So in 1968, shortly after Soviet tanks entered Prague, Haida pretended to be on vacation and fled the place where she had lived for decades to become an exiled writer.
During that long time, countless people left their hometown and became exiles.
Few exiles in history have such a large number and far-reaching influence as those in Eastern Europe. Among them, there are countless great writers. Only Nobel Prize in Literature winners are Solzhenitsyn, milosz, brodsky, Hertha Muller, etc. In addition, there are many well-known literary celebrities such as Milan Kundera and Zweig. They all lived in exile in other countries. They have different personalities and experiences, but if the exiled writers in Eastern Europe are regarded as a group and a group of writers, their similarities can be condensed into two words: "exile" and "suffering".
These words are heavy and full of charm, which makes me want to have a look, so I spent a little time searching for information, selected several works by several masters belonging to this group, and made a list of books, which I intend to read well in the next period of time, which is a foresight of that era.
Let's take a look at that absurd, humorous, bizarre, carnival, sinking, puffed up, silent and gloomy era.
Manya is a loner. In his native Romania, he opposed both politicians and artists. After his exile in the United States, he insisted on writing in Romania, unwilling to get too involved. Just like his self-positioning repeatedly used in On Clowns, he is an outsider in every camp. "Exclusion is the only dignity we have."
the black envelope
"I am trying to find a metaphor to show our closed and incomplete society, to show the pressure and pain that I can't release inside, and to show people's frustration and frustration. I want to create another reality to express our real life: endless queues (for bread, gloves, soap, gasoline and toilet paper), terrible hospitals, informers and boastful deception everywhere; Cold, fear, jokes, silence, fatigue, fear and even my own pain. Lonely individuals and the public. Despair, love, fear, sin, fragility, fantasies and nightmares. "
The return of hooligans: memoirs
"The Return of Grand Theft Auto tells that time and space are constantly jumping, so you have to try to distinguish these critical moments ... the transformation of time and space is without warning, and the narrative language is like a dream. Manya doesn't mean to create obstacles for readers to read, but he seems to be in multiple dreams of fate. "
Clowns: Dictators and Artists
"The relationship between a dictator and an artist is a clown with a painted face and a clown with a white face. In Mania's view, his motherland has already turned into an absurd circus, and the white-faced clowns of power dominate thousands of unknown people who live in fear and put them into his circus prison. The only thing a clown with a painted face can do is ignore his existence. "
Czech writer, living in France.
Milan Kundera faced two extremes in China. Some people regard him as a confidant they have never met, while others think he is obscure and mysterious. However, Milan Kundera himself never wanted to be labeled as likable. He doesn't admit that he is an exiled writer, and he doesn't want to write in Czech, his mother tongue, to be interviewed or to represent anyone. He doesn't want to be consistent with anyone, good or bad.
However, it is such a person who insists on himself, but he has won a huge number of hugs in the world.
Interesting love
Funny Love is a collection of short stories, including ten early stories by Milan Kundera, the first of which, No One Can Laugh, seems to echo the title.
The unbearable lightness of life
Milan Kundera's most famous works are also the works with the most quotations and epigrams. From this work, you can see Milan Kundera's inexplicable but fascinating narrative method, as if seeing strange patterns through strange faults. But in fact, he may just want to tell a story in his most appropriate way.
Laugh and forget the record.
Another novel about Prague, about Prague Spring, is still a broken time and space, and the fate of different characters is disturbed by the huge whirlpool of the times.
Farewell to waltz
I prefer another translation of this book: Farewell Party.
Live somewhere else
The title of the book reveals its position in China.
Haida Kovali died in 20 10 at the age of 9 1 year. She is a long-lived woman and a tenacious woman; She missed death countless times, but she persisted in living. However, her closest relatives are not.
She has suffered more than she has suffered for many years.
Prague under a cold star: 194 1- 1968.
This is a memoir published by 1988. Memories came to an abrupt end at 1968, but there was no suffering.
This tenacious old man, who has been telling the truth all his life, won the Nobel Prize in Literature, but he was also jailed and exiled. In 1950s, he went to prison for some reason and suffered from stomach cancer. The doctor said he could only live for three weeks, but miraculously he survived. He said, "I will never go back before my book." As a declaration of war on our motherland, we finally won.
Cancer home
A work full of symbols and metaphors, it not only describes the cancer of Solzhenitsyn and other patients in the ward, but also describes the incurable disease of the society in which he lives.
The first lap
"Scientists without crimes have no human rights, no freedom, and even Malfino's' sex' right."
Gulag is.
Great epic, everyone knows what the isolated and absurd Gulag Islands in the title symbolize.
Ivan? Danny Sovic's day.
A collection of short stories, Solzhenitsyn's masterpieces.
Marai Sandor is an active exile. He has never been exiled, so he may be a vested interest. He once said, "I have to leave, not only because they don't allow me to write freely, but also because they don't allow me to be free and silent." This is not only a matter of conscience, but more importantly, he regards a person as an independent individual and a free individual, which is extremely important.
He was born in an aristocratic family in Austria-Hungary, and the aristocratic temperament of the empire could not be concealed between the lines.
1989, he ended his life in his own home in the United States, only to see the dawn.
Confessions of a citizen
This autobiographical novel is divided into two parts, written in 1934- 1935. It was between World War I and World War II. "There are hundreds of famous people with surnames in the book, from emperors to maids, from relatives and friends to neighbors, from literati politicians to lovers, passers-by and prostitutes ... malloy comes from Germany and France.
Candle ashes
"In the exciting heated debate, malloy used gloomy and sad words to miss the lost imperial era and the noble character and friendship between gentlemen that disappeared with it. The sadness of the Austro-Hungarian Empire in the face of decline and the shaking of people's traditional morality when the world order collapsed are reflected between the lines. "
Love disguised as a monologue
"Love is unbearable, and loneliness is the only truth."
1956, Iagota took refuge in Switzerland with her ex-husband because of the anti-Russian riots in Hungary, and then settled in Switzerland. His famous work "Bad Boy Trilogy" is said to be based on her own experience. Some people say that Yagota was a "traitor" who died in exile with patriotism, but there is no doubt that "victim" is a more suitable label for her.
Diary of a bad boy
Two-person evidence
The third lie
Eastern Europe is a place rich in literati and masters, and great suffering often squeezes out the densest words and the greatest narrative. When looking up information, I often feel vague in the face of vast history and loud names, so I can't see a drop in the ocean in a poor life. Carefully selected 19 books, carefully reviewed the reasons for choosing, but there was no insight. I didn't choose the works of Brodsky and milosz, just because I have no feeling for poetry; I didn't choose Hertha Miller just because I didn't like those titles. All three are Nobel Prize in Literature laureates.
The first time I made a list of books for myself, I spent a lot of time reading related biographies, history and comments. The more I read, the more hesitant and scared I am. The more I feel superficial.
In short, 19 book, read it first.