Blade is an ordinary novel and the last novel of Mr. Mao Mu.
Just like the story outline behind the book, Blade is a legend of ordinary people.
The hero of the story, Zoroastrianism Leray, was originally a sunny and cheerful young man who was engaged to Isabel, who had always loved him deeply. At the beginning of World War II, Le Lei joined the army and met an optimistic and active friend, Birch, in the military camp. He had planned to go back to Ireland to marry a girl after leaving the army. However, on his last mission before leaving the army, Birch died to save Leray. After the war, LeLei refused to work or go to school, but stayed in the library for a long time to read. He began to think about the meaning of life and began to "wander" around the world.
Compared with Lei Lei and Eliot, this socialite is more like an informer of this story. The story begins with him, transitions with him and ends with him as the keynote. Whenever the story is interrupted by "I", Eliot will make up the background, add clues and reconnect the story like a narrator. Of course, he also has his own story. Eliot has always been a star of the upper class, always running around in various upper class banquets, content to be like a royal family, and later brought him into contact with the corner relationship of royal blood. He is a snob, but he is not a villain. Whenever someone is in trouble and asks him for help, he is very willing to help, but it is because of his help that the young guy can speak ill of him instead of the countess, which makes Eliot unable to get the invitation to the grand banquet he dreamed of when he died. In the end, "I" stole an invitation for him, which was his last wish. Eliot also left a rich legacy for his niece, allowing Isabel to live her ideal life.
Although Isabel loved LeLei deeply, she didn't stay with LeLei in the end. Like all independent women, she is practical and wants to live a stable and prosperous life, which is why she chooses gray. Gray is almost the ideal type for modern women. He is kind and gentle, has a stable and decent job, and has always loved Isabel deeply. Just like most people's attitude towards ideals and reality: they yearn for ideals, but choose to accept reality. Isabel hopes that Lailei can accept Gray's help and a well-paid job to meet her real needs, but Lailei just can't do what she hopes. Le Lei doesn't want to give up the pursuit, but wants to live a wandering life and pursue the truth in the holy land he longs for. The two lovers who run counter to each other are doomed to be inseparable, but Isabel always has a sense of unwillingness, which leads her to design a "trap" to ruin Lelei and Sophie's wedding.
Sophie was originally a good girl who loved poetry, had a beautiful marriage and family, and met LeLei. But in a car accident, her husband and children suffered misfortune. Sophie was hit by smoking and drinking all day and indulged herself. By chance, I met a group of people visiting slums. After the separation, LeLei, out of pity, asked Sophie to give up smoking and drinking and get engaged to Sophie to save the girl who slipped. However, three days before the wedding, Sophie was invited by Isabel and failed to resist Isabel's "wine plan". She chose to escape and returned to her confusing life in Toulon, and finally died.
After traveling to many countries, reading all kinds of books and experiencing life in coal mines, Lai Lei finally found the meaning of life in Indian saints: "I should be proud not to leave this world to live in seclusion, but to live in this world and love things in this world. I love things in the world, not because they are cute, but because countless gods exist in them. "
I feel that Lai Lei is not the absolute protagonist of this book, but a metaphysical protagonist. He seems to be the first person to climb the top of the mountain, looking at the mist in the mountain and the people looking for directions from a distance, and then looking at the birds in the sky from bottom to top, letting the sunshine occasionally outline his outline and penetrate into his heart, and he also enjoys the joy brought by tranquility. As the poet wrote in the Seventh Year of Viola: "Every heart wants to follow the past, although it can't reach it, it yearns for it." Life is like a journey, and reeds sail. "In the end, Le Lei chose to become a self-sufficient car mechanic. He merged into the sea of people and disappeared into ordinary life.
"What is the meaning of life?" This is an eternal problem, and most people will unconsciously pursue it at some time. I believe that different people will have different answers, and some people will even give up their lives for it (don't underestimate life), but I think most of the answers should conform to another sentence in Blade: "What is more realistic than learning how to live better?"