Thoughts on Miguel Street

After reading a famous book, everyone must have a lot of experience in their hearts. You can't just watch. Write a review. So how should I write my thoughts after reading? The following is my comments on Miguel Street for your reference only. Welcome to reading.

After reading Miguel Street 1, this is the first time to read Naipaul's novel. A few weeks ago, I saw the news of Naipaul's death in the media. The people of Sri Lanka have left a message of mourning for the readers.

Miguel Street is Naipaul's famous work. I thought it was a collection of short stories, but it wasn't. This is a novel, written in the form of a short story. Each chapter can be written independently, and it is all in the whole book. This is not a structural trick, but a thorough consideration. Divide the plot into stories, and there are countless connections between the characters. It is this subtle connection that makes the novel a whole.

Naipaul wrote this book in the tone of a teenager, which is actually quite difficult. The price of growing up is not going back to the past, but Naipaul presents a boy's world and vision. This is a growing street in the eyes of a boy. Everyone has a story, and everyone's story is not simple and pure. In the eyes of a teenager, these people and things constitute the memory of growing up.

Everyone has helplessness and dreams. Beggars who want to sell their poems for 4 cents, carpenters who don't know what they are doing, and women who have given birth to eight children ... Naipaul draws stick figures and writes these stories vividly. He doesn't write much and the language is simple, but everyone's stories are vivid, interesting and three-dimensional. A few short strokes depict a vivid story. It seems that the author doesn't have any kung fu, and everyone who has written a story knows that it's all kung fu behind it.

At the beginning of one of them, I was shocked Holding a book, I was a little slow for a while, wondering how anyone could write such vivid and minimalist words. The shock of that moment is still memorable. It's really well written. At that moment, I felt that my words were poor. In terms of language, not everyone can do whatever they want. This article entitled "Maternal Instinct" begins like this:

I guess Laura holds the world record.

Laura has eight children.

This is nothing to be surprised about.

Eight children have seven fathers.

This is killing me!

Not a word is redundant, but five sentences are clear and funny. How can someone use language so well? I try to write the meaning of these words in my own language. I found it a mess as soon as I wrote it, but Paul's compactness and wit made me helpless. He grasped the string of words tightly and straightened it without any bumps or bends in the middle, so it was smooth and flat, like a shiny walking stick. This requires daily polishing, careful removal of impurities and due vigilance.

I have read this opening many times, and I feel better every time I read it. I don't think a word can be deleted, and it's not good to add one. These words are just right. These five lines are like a humorous sketch. First of all, it has kept a world record, and readers must be very curious. What record is it? Laura has eight children. Oh, that's it. I was just about to breathe a sigh of relief, but the author immediately said, "This is nothing to be surprised about"-indeed, there are many people with children everywhere, but Naipaul threw out "eight children and seven fathers", and before the readers could recall it, they immediately said, "This is fatal", and the readers immediately wondered how Laura could live such a life with so many people. Full of stories, after reading this, you may be eager to read the following.

But I'm not. I read these words over and over again. How can I write so well? No adjectives, no mystery, plain and straightforward, but interesting. This should be the best expression or one of the best expressions. Naipaul's words can be a model of writing, telling readers how to write a good story and a good novel.

Naipaul's language is delicate and thorough, and after reading it, he feels that the language is too good to surpass. In one chapter, he wrote: "Mrs. Baku's figure reminds people of her weight, but in fact she is covered with meat." If she hangs her hands at her sides, she looks like a pair of brackets. "Weight and brackets, such vivid and smiling language, it's really hard to come up with a second metaphor to describe Mrs Baku's figure properly. How can Naipaul feel that weight and brackets are so inexplicably related to Baku's oversized body? Was it a flash of inspiration, or did he have a plan? I don't know. Anyway, we saw wonderful words.

Naipaul opened a window, which made me find that the scenery outside the window was so beautiful that I was more interested. I looked out, expecting to see more scenery.

Reflections on Miguel Street 2 Before I took Miguel Street from a woman, I knew nothing about this book and its author. To be honest, I was a little confused at that time: is such a simple novel worth traveling once and then going back to see it next year? Ignorance led to this disaster.

There is no preface, no translator's order, no famous recommendation and no postscript. It seems more strange to hold it in your hand. But when I started reading its first story, Bogart, the rich flavor of life, brisk and poetic style, humorous and sad mood suddenly caught me. I really wanted to leave everything at hand and read it all at once-you know, there are not many books that can stop me now.

This is a book composed of 17 short stories, each of which is an independent story about a nobody and his story. Although these stories are not related to each other, these people appear in many stories at the same time, which eventually formed the life of Miguel Street. Plain and simple words, a few simple conversations, a few small moves, a picture of a character sketch vividly appeared, and people of all colors in Miguel Street became clear one by one, forming a bottom society. Among them are lunatics, poets, wise men, clowns, weak and dissolute mothers, and women who give up their rich lives for love ... and they all have such quirks: "philosopher" Pope wants to do something that can't be named; Morgan, the "artist", threatened that the American king would come to buy his fireworks; Blake Wordsworth, the poet, is writing the greatest poem in the world; Mann, a "madman", frequently participated in parliamentary elections; Baku, a "mechanical genius", persistently transformed one imported car after another. They weave the lies of life, live by faint hope or survival instinct, and do their best to play the tragicomedy of life until the curtain falls.

Every character's story is beautiful, but it doesn't mean its meaning is simple. In fact, the fate of every little person has intriguing implications. It is noted that in the story of 17 characters, only two women are written, "maternal instinct" and "just for love, love, love". Laura has eight children and seven fathers. When she knew that her daughter had gone her own way, she was suffocating. Elias in Career Choice has repeatedly lowered his bottom line in the face of fate, which makes people feel distressed. What impressed me most was the poet B Wordsworth, who wrote one line of poetry a month and dreamed of writing the greatest poem in the world. He makes a living by singing Kripso minor; He told me that he once loved a girl, but the girl died with their children. However, before he died, the poet said, "Very good. Now listen to me. I once told you the story of a young poet and a poetess. Do you remember? " That's not true, I made it up. And those poems, the greatest poems in the world, are also fake. Do you think this is the funniest thing you have ever heard? "His voice was interrupted. I left the small house and ran home crying. Like a poet, I want to cry when I see anything.

The sad poet overthrew his cognition in a child's mind and inadvertently planted the seeds of the poet's melancholy.

Naipaul is an Indian immigrant and grew up in Britain. He grew up in the slums of Miguel Street. This is his famous work. I think Naipaul walked back to Miguel Street along just visiting, and recalled those familiar people and things, which was detached and devoted. He is not sad, but he has endless sympathy.

The book will be returned to its owner tomorrow. Today, I picked it up again and spent a day rereading it, just like facing a friend who is going out to work hard after the New Year. Before we leave, all we can do is find a quiet and undisturbed place and have another heart-to-heart talk.

Thoughts on reading Miguel Street 3 I bought a lot of books on philosophy and sociology on the Internet a few days ago, and got a novel Miguel Street by V.S. Naipaul as a gift. At first, I didn't know that the author was the winner of Nobel Prize in Literature in 200 1 year, but I just thought that a book with a beautiful cover should not be missed (Hainan Publishing Company Edition). I picked it up when I was bored the night before, but it was actually released, so I watched it while watching it.

As I mentioned earlier, Naipaul won the Nobel lecture of 200 1 and many awards in Britain. Miguel Street is Naipaul's early work, written in 1959. I don't want to introduce the author's life or anything else here. I just want to briefly introduce some information related to this book. Interested readers can consult the author's relevant information on their own.

Irwin gofman, an American sociologist, put forward in his book Self-Presentation in Daily Life that the social life of a social person is actually like a performance, including the front and the back. Social institutions (assembly, work, family, religion, etc. ) It's all the front desk. People's performance includes others' expectations and their own expectations. In other words, people perform here for others and for themselves. In this performance, the most important concept is "self". Miguel Street, a fictional slum in Port of Spain, is such a big stage. It is not so much a street as a vast world. There are all kinds of people living here. These people like to fabricate legends about themselves and others and tirelessly spread the news. There are adventurers, philosophers, mechanics, fireworks, old people, children, men and women. Although they are different, they are all doing the same thing-they have ideals, but they compromise life in different ways all the time.

After watching Miguel Street, 4. Read Naipaul's Miguel Street, 2006 54 38+0 1959 autobiographical novel written by Nobel Prize in Literature Prize winner. The short book of130,000 words almost suffocated me. I used to read all the thick books at once, but this time I put them down several times. Why? I am so sad that I can't go on reading.

This book is Naipaul's memory of his life in Miguel Street before he left India for England. A few short articles, each talking about his neighbor, driving a garbage truck is a very decent occupation; A woman has eight children and these children have seven fathers; Neglected lunatics; Young people who seem to be very knowledgeable but can't get a qualification certificate; A down-and-out poet who has never sold his poems ... Small people have to avoid the value orientation of mainstream society in their lives in order to safeguard their self-dignity. He described every character so plump and life in India at that time so vividly. Bitter life is integrated into their daily life.

Finally, he left, because Naipaul witnessed all the sadness with his own eyes and thought that if he could not change, the last departure was destined to be the best ending.

After reading this book, I was knocked down by the author's talent. He was only 22 when he wrote this book, but he was so proficient in writing. He is undoubtedly a master of playing with words, but I like his style, just like a freshly brewed cup of tea. The text is concise and full, and it tastes very fragrant.