"When the Stars Shine" is the recommended bibliography of the Love Reading Club in May. I'll place an order as soon as the recommended bibliography comes down, and I'll get it soon.
I believe that I am a liberal arts student and have a certain geographical and historical foundation. In the face of such a modest book, reading seems easy, but when I read The Fall of Byzantium, I began to panic. Obviously, to read this book completely, we must have a grand historical background and restore the historical truth at a certain moment in a specific environment.
And the acquisition of these materials, I rely on Baidu to improve and supplement.
Baidu Knowledge Point: Biography of People
Biography is a form of literary works that systematically describes and introduces the life, life and spirit of typical characters. The work requires "truthfulness, faithfulness and vividness" to express and reflect the character's character and deep spirit. Biography is an effective record form of characters or their data, which is of great significance to studying the changes of history and times.
When the Stars Shine is a biography of twelve very different people, including explorers, writers, militarists, politicians and composers. They have different nationalities and a long time span, but they all show the endless pursuit and persistence of human dreams without exception. These 12 radiant plots are interrelated and intertwined, which constitute the soul of history. These twinkling souls were captured by Zweig, which created the most perfect and vivid biographical stories in the moment of history, and also showed the twelve most dazzling stars in history to future generations.
1565438+On September 25th, 2003, balboa, a Spaniard, discovered the Pacific Ocean during his great escape and sought refuge in his immortal career.
1453 On May 29th, Homet, a Turk, led people through the Kekapota Gate defended by several people to capture Byzantium, and the Eastern Roman Empire perished. Byzantium has become a ruin, and the ruin is a long evolutionary chain.
1741August 2 1 Sunday, Handel, a composer who was down and out in Jiang Lang, suddenly found inspiration in a poem and wrote the immortal Messer. The oratorio "Messer" inspires people and generates the power to move forward.
1792 On April 25th, a young officer, Lu Ri, wrote a war song for the Rhine army, faithfully recording everything he saw, and the Marseillaise was born. Three hours to complete the creation, known as "one-night genius", "La Marseillaise" is magnificent, beautiful and fluent, and shocking.
1865438+June, 200518, the cowardly lieutenant grouchy insisted on his own destiny, ruined Napoleon's ambition and defeated Waterloo, which became synonymous with failure. Napoleon famously said, "The glory of life lies not in never giving up, but in being able to rise again and again." .
1On September 5, 823, Goethe, a 74-year-old famous German thinker, writer and scientist, couldn't help thinking of a girl on his way home from a nursing home. He was heartbroken and wrote the most famous love poem "Elegy of Marion Bass" in his later years, which was shocking.
1848 65438+ 10 In October, suter, a Californian, found gold in his own territory and set off a "gold rush". For this reason, he lost everything, and his fate drifted from place to place, becoming the richest and poorest person.
1849 65438+On February 22nd, the Russian writer Dostoevsky was released again during his execution, showing his unstoppable compassion for mankind in the form of poetry, and seeing great pain gave birth to more thoughts. Lu Xun called Dostoevsky "the great interrogator of human soul".
On July 28th, 1858, the submarine cable was finally laid in Dreamland after many attempts. "Because of human creativity, the distance between time and space has been greatly shortened. Thank them for their victory in time and space. If human beings can unite and live in harmony from generation to generation, they will not be confused by the fatal delusion of destroying this great unity again and again, and they will continue to use those means that give them the power to overcome nature to destroy themselves. How wonderful! "
1910/0 at the end, Zweig tells the story of Tolstoy, a Russian writer, thinker and philosopher who criticized reality in the form of drama, paying tragic tribute to death with the end of his life, leaving a close-up of history. Lenin called Tolstoy "the mirror of Russian revolution", and Tolstoy opposed any form of violence, because every kind of violence inevitably produced violence.
191265438+1October 16, British Colonel Scott arrived in the South Pole. On the way back, he died for lack of materials, leaving a lot of written records.
1965438+On April 9, 2007, Lenin boarded the train from Switzerland to Germany and returned to Russia. The revolutionary army in exile for 14 years returned to the embrace of the motherland like shells, and an empire and a world were destroyed.
Zweig biography, such as an interview with arhat hall. Clay sculptures with many different faces and expressions. Zweig's writing description is vivid, the language is vivid, the words are accurate and appropriate, the sentences are fluent and the levels are clear, and he makes an objective analysis and fair evaluation of historical figures and events.
It's really hard for me to sum up the thoughts brought by these twelve words in words, and perhaps I can better interpret my inner admiration with grandeur.
Facing the eternal time, in the light and shadow of historical circulation, the star map is constantly changing, the vegetation has withered for hundreds of years, an era has risen and fallen, heroes have come and gone, generals have lost, and they have been sitting in the face of the blood shed since. All this will always make the world think a lot, make us moved and excited, and even burst into tears.
There is Chang Ran in history, which is inevitable, of course accidental and probabilistic; Greatness is always mixed with ordinary and small; Sad but stubborn staged the history of human development. We can't win in time. While it slowly passed away, it also left us endless treasures, such as words, music, art, thoughts, spirit and so on, which will be their wealth crystallized in front of time.
The night before yesterday, a person watched the movie "Mo Wen West East" again at home, and one of the lines was still fresh in his memory: "There is no shortage of perfect and great people in this world, but sincerity, justice, fearlessness and heartfelt sympathy." Life is long and short, no matter great or ordinary, I must be true to myself, stick to my beliefs, stick to my kindness from beginning to end, stick to my ideas, do what I can and love what I love.
Tomorrow is the day of the college entrance examination. We are ready to accept this generous gift and the gift of time. It also needs wisdom and courage, let us face it soberly, love and burn ... "Just ask the initial heart, don't ask the distance; Just ask courage, don't ask anything. "
The shining historical materials of the book When the Stars Shine, in such a summer afternoon, in the endless time warp and weft, can I find myself in my own life coordinates and calm myself down?