Classic recommendation (urgent! ! ! )

Author: Milan? Kundera

Reading reasons:

One of Milan Kundera's most famous works. This novel describes the love life between Thomas, Teresa and Salina. However, it is by no means a love triangle between a man and two women. This is a philosophical novel. Starting from the discussion of "eternal reincarnation", the novel brings us into thinking about a series of problems, such as lightness and heaviness, such as spirit and flesh, which makes us think-what is unbearable lightness of life? It's profound. Reading it, you can appreciate the power of wisdom, but it is never boring.

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The heaviest burden oppresses us, makes us succumb to it and presses us to the ground. But in the love poems of past dynasties, women are always eager to bear the weight of a man's body. As a result, the heaviest burden has become the image with the strongest vitality. The heavier the burden, the closer our life is to the earth and the more real it is. On the contrary, when the burden is completely absent, people will become lighter than air, will float, will be far away from the earth and life on the ground, people will only exist in a semi-reality, and people's sports will become free and meaningless. So, what do you choose? Is it heavy or light?

The Unbearable Lightness in Life is Milan Kundera's masterpiece and a book with complex images. It contains many meanings: the revelation of the political social connotation, the investigation of human nature, the presentation of personal destiny in a specific historical and political context, and the exploration of the nature of gender relations. Kundera skillfully combined these elements and wrote an extraordinary novel-both metaphorical philosophical thinking and people's life experiences of joys and sorrows. Limited by space, this article only talks about gender relations.

the house on mango street

Author: Sandra cisneros

Reading reasons:

The Cabin on Mango Street is a beautiful and pure little book, a "poetic novel", a story about growth and a pursuit of reality and spiritual home in writing.

It consists of dozens of short stories, one of which tells a story about a person, an event, a dream, several clouds, several trees and several relationships. The language is clear as running water, dotted with scattered rhymes and novel metaphors, such as a long song, which rhymes with each other and connects with each other, bringing together a clear world and a variety of miscellaneous lives.

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Espe Lanza means hope in Spanish. Espe Langsha, a girl who lives in Mango Street, a Latin American immigrant community in Chicago, is naturally sympathetic to the suffering of others and has a sense of beauty. She looked at the world around her with clear eyes and told her growth, vicissitudes, beauty and hardship of life, young aspirations and dreams in poetic and beautiful language. I dream of having my own house. I dream of pursuing myself, gaining freedom and helping others in writing.

The Time Traveler's Wife.

Author: audrey niffenegger

Reading reasons:

This is an expensive love carol and an incredible romantic journey for ordinary people. Like science fiction, but full of poetry. It's like a love novel, but it's full of faith and philosophy of time and space.

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The Time Traveler's Wife is a novel story, which involves three levels of connections: fascinating science fiction concepts, vivid characterization and touching love. This book interweaves the different perspectives and narratives of Henry and Claire, vividly expressing Claire's idea that she is always left behind, her unusual lifestyle and her love for Henry above all else. And this man who never knows where the next one will be, his fear, his gratitude for hard-won love.

The author audrey niffenegger is a visual artist and a professor at the Center for Book and Paper Arts of Columbia University. She is responsible for teaching writing, letterpress printing and making beautiful books. He exhibited his personal works of art at the Chicago Printing Association Gallery. The Time Traveler's Wife is her first novel. She lives in Chicago at present.

The movie rights of this book have been bought by Brad Pitt and Jennifer Aniston, and Brad Pitt will also play the protagonist Henry. The film was directed by gus van sant. Two years ago, director Garth Van Sant made a surprise attack on Cannes Film Festival with a low-budget documentary "Elephant", and finally won the Palme d 'Or, which shocked the world.

If life is a journey, Henry's journey must be more circuitous than ordinary people. With chronic time dislocation, he will unconsciously drift between time. He thought it was the first time he met 20-year-old Claire at the age of 28, but Claire said, "I have known you since I was a child"; After being married to Claire for many years, Henry suddenly found himself back in childhood, but this time he met six-year-old Claire.

Because of involuntary disappearance, Henry will witness the past events of his young self again and again, but he can only watch and taste the joys, sorrows and pains again and again.

But what about Claire, who walks in a normal time journey? She was left behind by her husband, anxious for her lover to come back to her as soon as possible. Although Claire has time, she can only touch Henry. What filters the passionate love between the two lovers, and what drives them to explore bravely in the complicated and intertwined fate, and finally makes time insignificant in front of love?

This is reminiscent of Marquez's masterpiece Love in Cholera. The hero has experienced war and plague, and has been infatuated with the touching story of being deeply loved by women for half a century.

The Memory Keeper's Daughter

Author: (America) Edwards

Reason:

The author of this book is kim edwards's first novel. It attracted Europe and America in 2006 and moved the Chinese-speaking world in 2007. It is a bestseller of The New York Times, Washington post, Publishers Weekly and USA-Today. How did you refuse this summer? !

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1964, on a snowstorm night, Dr. David delivered his wife himself. Twins came into this world, but the girl was born with Down syndrome. In order to protect his family, or to protect himself, David cheated his wife and daughter and died. This decision has changed two families since then ... In the journey of life, we will have such an experience more or less: at a certain moment, one of our decisions and one of our actions, we didn't understand at that time. After a long time, after repeated consideration, I suddenly realized what the result of my decision was.

Living sons and "dead" daughters; Couples whose material life is guaranteed, but they can't be honest with each other, single mothers who work hard but are sincere and brave every minute ... people who keep secrets, people who are deceived, children who are eager for their parents' care, parents who feel vain and uncomfortable because they have no children, vagrants, people who have no home, everyone in the book is fighting against fate and shouldering the burden of life. ...

le scaphandre et le papillon

Author: Jean-Dominique Bauby

Reasons for reading: (comments by many writers)

-The New York Times read this most unusual story,

I saw the light in a brave man. The last gift he left us was incomparable. This is a heartbreaking, but grand and solemn testimony, witnessing the painful beauty of the human spirit.

-Xu Nulan "The Face of Death"

This story, from a deep space explorer, is very attractive. These words, from a mind imprisoned in an unconscious body, are intoxicating without any self-pity or sadness. This book is unforgettable.

Andrew Weil

A talented writer finished this heartbreaking story, pain turned into creativity, and human despair turned into a miracle of words.

-Avery Wesso (writer)

In this book, Bobby travels in familiar and unfamiliar places, tasting delicious food along the way, and shows us everything that happened in A Man Like Soaking in a Bucket of Formaldehyde.

Amazon. com

After reading this book, I fell in love with life again ... every word was prepared by the author with great care, but the words here are not as simple as telegraph sickbed articles. It is as light as the most agile humor, as sober as almonds in cooking, and as light as the footsteps of young people on their first date.

-edmund white (writer)

Jean-Dominique Bobby's extraordinary story bears witness to human's rich imagination and indomitable will to inspire infinite courage. Diving Bell and Butterfly will surely become the most outstanding work of our time, even any time.

-Cynthia Maung Oak (writer)

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★ The original film "Diving Bell and Butterfly" won the Cannes Award in 2007.

★ A book written by a vegetative person with his left eyelid.

★ The world's top fashion magazine-a wonderful curtain call by the editor-in-chief of ELLE, France

Jean-Dominique Bobby

Born in 1952, studied in Paris. He worked as a reporter for several years.

199 1 became the editor-in-chief of ELLE magazine in France.

199565438+February 8, sudden stroke.

1997 died on March 9.

My body is as heavy as a diving bell, but my heart longs to fly freely like a butterfly. I want to die, so I can only live by imagination and memory.

Jean-Dominique, editor-in-chief of ELLE, the world's top fashion magazine? Bobby,199565438+suffered a stroke on February 8 and fell into a deep coma. Twenty days later, when he woke up, he found that he had lost all his motor functions. He can't move, eat, talk or even breathe. The only thing that can move all over his body is his left eyelid, which has become the only way for him to communicate with the world. Bobby's body is trapped in a heavy diving bell, unable to move, but his mind flies freely like a light butterfly.

When a friend reads a letter in need, he blinks, so he writes down a word and a sentence, memories of past lives, feelings in this life, thoughts on life, death and love, and even writes it to all his friends ... to write this book.

1On March 9th, 997, two days after the French edition of this book was published, Bobby died.

When reading a book, you only know the writing experience of this book-choose the letters you need with your left eyelid, then spell them out one by one, and then turn them into a sentence, sentence by sentence, paragraph by paragraph, chapter by chapter, book … that's enough. Only the left eyelid can blink, how can we keep our life full?

Walden

Author: (America) henry thoreau

Reading reasons:

There are also many pages in this book, which are beautiful and meticulous, like the purity and transparency of the lake and the thick green of the forest; Some pages are thorough, incisive and enlightening. This book was written more than 100 years ago and has not lost its meaning so far. In a busy day's life, sometimes I can't stand it. It seems that the book I like very much suddenly becomes less lovely and comforting. There seems to be no benefit, and it even makes me doubt. However, after dusk, my mood gradually became lonely and quiet. When I read this book again, I suddenly found it interesting. What I saw was the chapter where I couldn't see the benefits and taste during the day. The language is amazing, and every word flashes, which touches my heart and lungs. In the dead of night, when all is silent, this Walden Lake is not obscure, clear and clear, and people can't help but be fascinated by it.

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Needless to say, Walden needs to be repeated. It is a lonely, quiet and intelligent book. It is unique in analyzing life and criticizing customs. There are some difficulties in nature, and the author himself said, "Please forgive my obscurity." For example, Emerson's younger brother Edward asked him what the fable of the lost hound, millet horse and turtledove meant. He asked, "Didn't you lose it?" But I never answered again. Some critics say that Thoreau lost a Allen (turtledove), a John (hound) and perhaps a Ralph (chestnut horse). Who can lose anything?

Celtic dusk

Author: (Irish) Ye Zhi

Reading reasons:

This book is one of Ye Zhi's representative works and a special work. It is special for two reasons: First, it was written by the poet Ye Zhi in the form of poetry, but it is not a collection of poems. Secondly, this is an important work used by the poet to express his eternal love for Ireland. In fact, this is an excellent collection of Irish myths and legends compiled by Ye Zhi with the enthusiasm of poets. The poet has been immersed in Irish culture for many years and is convinced of the existence of magical powers such as fairies in Irish legends. This romantic belief adds special luster to his poetry creation. In order to repay the Irish national culture, the beautiful mother who inspired him infinitely, Ye Zhi recorded his favorite Celtic customs with the brush strokes of the poet. This book is a collection of villagers' gossip and myths and legends in a few pages or sentences, and its style and form are somewhat similar to China Pu Songling's Strange Tales from a Lonely Studio. But unlike Liaozhai, this book emphasizes the poet's own thinking and gratitude for the magical world.

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This is a work that embodies the author's early typical creative characteristics. Its contents are all-encompassing: ghosts, immortals, humorous stories and rural legends emerge one after another; Its style can be described as miscellaneous but not chaotic: sometimes it is a serious discussion about life and death, and sometimes it is an absurd story told by a farmer brazenly, interspersed with fragments of Ye Zhi's poems. The brushwork of the book is extremely free and relaxed, and the writing is full of imagination, showing a mysterious and romantic aesthetic feeling and love for simple thoughts.

Celtic dusk is a collection of myths and legends collected from Irish sligo and Golf. It's about the author making friends and chatting with local people of all colors in the coastal villages of northwest Ireland, sorting out these conversation notes a little and adding some thoughts. It can also be regarded as a collection of essays with beautiful writing, involving ghosts and gods, full of all kinds of interesting whimsy, which is somewhat similar to Strange Tales from a Lonely Studio or Yuewei Caotang Notes.

The Lovely Bones

Author: Alice? Sibode

Reading reasons:

In June, 2002, her novel "Lovely Bones" was published, which beat the attractive bestseller and won the championship. Book reviews are even better. This book topped the The New York Times list for nearly 30 weeks and remained on the list for more than 70 weeks. This is a best seller for two years. It was selected as a recommended book by the American Reading Club of the Month, and won the American Novel of the Year Award and the British Book of the Year Award, ranking second among the "20 Best Books in 2003" selected by French Reading magazine. At present, the book is very popular in English, French, Japanese and Chinese versions, with sales exceeding 5 million copies. The film based on this book will also be directed by The Lord of the Rings director Peter Jackson.

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A 14-year-old girl was raped and killed by a serial killer and her body was dismembered. Such a case may not be sensational if it is seen in the American media. If it is used as material to perfuse the novel, it may be a story in which the detective wins by plot. But what about Alice, a woman writer? Sebald, on the other hand, found another way, devoted his sincere feelings and expressed a tearful song of affection.

As the first crystallization of parents' love, Susie is a good girl, although not as clever as her sister Linxi. In her spare time, she helped her father make glass bottle sailing crafts, from which she realized her father's nostalgia for his grandfather. When I took a snapshot of my mother, I understood her depression that she had to be a housewife because of her high education. She is inseparable from her sister, who is one year younger than her. When his brother Buckley was dying, he stepped forward and sent him to the hospital for emergency treatment. She can even have intimate communication with grandma who is addicted to alcohol and has a flashy temperament.

But it is such a lovely little girl who was ravaged and dismembered by gangsters after her death. Only one elbow was found.

Sha Meng's family was devastated by the tragedy. Father Jack is in a trance. After providing suspicious clues to the police many times, he was injured and disabled when he went to catch the suspect at night. Mother Abigail couldn't stand the pain of losing her daughter, so she tried her best to get on well with the inspector's office and then ran away from home. My sister grew up overnight in grief and went to the murderer's house to steal evidence regardless of her life; My four-year-old brother was traumatized when he learned that his sister had passed away. Grandma came to her son-in-law's house to do housework without hesitation, and injected vitality into this family with her optimism and openness. Neighbors and teachers and students of the school spontaneously organized a memorial service, and everyone mourned the dead and comforted their loved ones.

In the past ten years, Susie's former classmates have all graduated from college and embarked on their own life path. Even her family seems to have forgotten the lost family member, although the misfortune and sadness brought by her disaster always hang over the whole family and linger. ..... When my father had a heart attack, my mother rushed back when she heard the news, so it was inevitable to meet her family. When my father came home from the hospital, the whole family was reunited. At this moment, Susie's soul, who was watching from the side, realized that a family is like a human skeleton. Even if one piece is broken or missing, the bone will eventually grow into a whole. As a missing part, although she was attached to this family, everyone felt sorry in her memory, but after this disaster and grief, the whole family finally merged into one. The title of "Lovely Bones" just points out this theme.

Maybe it's because of the current family crisis in America. In recent years, quite a few American writers have devoted themselves to the creation of family novels, but most of them focus on the love and marriage of young and middle-aged people, so they are more like romance novels.

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It's so hard to find one by one ~ give a hard score, HOHO~