Feng. Chamiset "The Man Who Lost Shadow": Freedom is not to be confused by the "shadow of things"!

Shadow, what is it to man? It seems to be the theme in many works of art. In "Peter Pan", Wendy helped Peter Pan re-stitch the shadow, the French writer Marc. "Shadow Stealers" by Marc Levy, Andy. The series of exhibitions Andy Warhol held between 1978 and 79: "Shadow", or this year's much-discussed animation work "Shadow House", all have a lot to do with shadows.

The Man Who Lost Shadow, written in 1813, is probably one of the most important shadow classics, if not the most unique, in a long list of works. It is the 18th-19th century, the late German romantic poetry writer: Adelbert. Feng. A fantasy story written by Adelbert von Chamisso. His length is not long, and the plot is not complicated. It can be easily read in an hour or two, but I believe that everyone will leave a shocking impression after reading it.

The story tells the protagonist Peter. When Schlemmer was attending a friend's banquet one day, he met a strange man in gray. The pocket of this man in gray is like Doraemon's treasure bag, from which anything can be taken out. At the banquet, he took out a palace plaster from his pocket, a beautiful telescope, a luxurious Turkish rug, a huge leisure tent... Finally, when some guests proposed the idea of riding a horse , he still unhurriedly pulled out three handsome dark horses from his pocket.

These sights stunned Schlemmer, but strangely, no one at the banquet noticed the man in gray. Most of them just happily took the items handed to them by the man in gray. I didn't care how these things came from, and I didn't even pay attention to the existence of the man in gray. Shremir ran to the waiter to inquire about the identity of the man in gray, but the waiter just said he didn't know, so he ignored him, which made him feel unusually puzzled.

Bored at the banquet, he quickly left his friend's house, but he didn't expect the man in gray to come to him on the way, hoping to exchange endless wealth for Schlemmer's shadow.

What will happen to people without shadows? Schleimier thought for a while, and it felt like it was nothing, and the shadow was not a soul. What would be the impact of losing it? So he asked the man in gray to take his shadow from his eyes and put it into the omnipotent pocket, and exchanged it for a purse that could keep producing gold.

To find out what happened to Schleimier when he lost his shadow, please go to this month's Critical Review Network column - "The Man Who Lost Shadow": How not to be confused by the "shadow of things"? An allegory of identity and money.

Link: https://www.thenewslens.com/article/153547