Underground anthology | "Hamlet" in Chen Sihong's "A Ghost Place", a dialogue between classics
Thanks godfather for sponsoring! The contents of this issue of "Underground" are as follows: - Book Introduction Selections - "Hamlet" in "The Ghost Place", a dialogue between classics
📒Selected book introductions
This time, 5 book introductions were selected from the "Literature" tag from 4/16 to 5/31, and each received 166 Likes.
Through book introductions, we can learn more about books outside the guard range and choose what we like. After reading, we can discuss with the book recommender or write a book review, so that the words written by the author can be stirred up in the discussion. More three-dimensional.
Yes, I should go to Taiwan, where the style of the Republic of China is preserved (I always have a different feeling for the people and things in the period from 1911 to 1945).
The power of words mentioned earlier is certainly something that cannot be ignored in Taiwanese literature. Taiwanese writers such as Long Yingtai, Zhang Manjuan, Wu Zhuoliu, and Zhu Tianxin are all treasures. For this reason, learn to read traditional Chinese books and write traditional Chinese characters bit by bit, so as to maintain the original flavor.
Before I had time to plan, Taozi's "Slow Tune Taiwan" had already taken me around Taiwan. As the first mainland Chinese student to come to Taiwan, and her previous experience as a reporter, she uses a different perspective to completely present Taiwan, where she has lived for three years, to readers.
When her son announced their engagement and marriage, Beatrice stated that she would never allow Bevin to enter her home (the book writes that Bevin and Beatrice had very similar looks when they were young, which is worth pondering). Her son's wedding She and her husband will never participate, and we don’t even want our son to touch the kite at home.
Maugham made an analysis at the end of the novel through the words of others: Herbert's self and the kite had a strange identification, making him feel that he had escaped from the sameness and monotony of real life. This small "sense of freedom" in a comfortable and regular life is not only a bottle of poison that makes Herbert addicted, but also a sharp blade for Beatrice to control her son, and a barrier that Bevin cannot penetrate.
For many of the characters and events in "Legacy", I would read the sentences and want to quickly jump out to some "judgments" and some "answers", but I didn't do this in the book. Sometimes it was in the description, sometimes in the description. In terms of the rhythm of the passage, it seems to be deliberately applying the brakes.
In multi-character stories, even though some are more similar in objective conditions, such as age, identity and behavior, there are actually few opportunities to really "bring them in". Perhaps this is also a leeway. The length and brushstrokes introduced are left to who in the story. After reading it, it is difficult not to be moved.
I participated in a reading club on the Republic of China organized by several senior students from the same major, and the first book I read was his "Dream Seeker". I checked the mainland reading platform for this book, but couldn’t find it. Even when I entered Wang Xiyan’s name, there were only a few results.
Thus, we can get a glimpse of the failure of the relationship between Cheng Kangnong and Sai Nan, not because of personality incompatibility, but the reason behind it is more complex and helpless - the gap in power status between urban men and rural women seems to go from the top of the mountain to the bottom of the ground.
As for Cheng Cannon's own views on "dreams", I think it has the flavor of "Columbus' discovery of the New World" and is full of colonialist gaze.
Kim Young-Ha's work is very exciting from beginning to end. The main story of this book is that a serial killer actually suffered from Alzheimer's disease in his later years. He rummaged through his diary to find clues in his mind... The stories that followed also included parents who lost their children, etc. Each story has its own small details. The reversal makes it concise and tense to read. I would not compare him to Hemingway. I have never liked Hemingway, and I have never read him.
Nowadays, I read more Korean literature and watch more TV dramas than before. I appreciate their creativity. At least, works like "Squid Game" have made it to Netflix's list no matter how criticized. I will continue to read translated Korean literature and poetry, and continue to support Korean literature, film and television works. The lack of censorship makes me feel closer.
- [Reading Notes] Writing the life memories of generations in rural Taiwan with a local flavor - "Dan Ma Cao Shui" @WencheWu_
As a reader, perhaps the most profound thing I feel is the strong "realism" in it. Including the choice of words and the depiction of traditional farmhouse and temple fair culture, the author's great thing is that during the reading process, readers will feel that what they are reading is "memory."
"Xiaoya" is the only one that is close to science fiction, and it is hard not to attract readers' attention. The background is set in the future. Taiwanese society will use technological products "smart people" to help long-term care families take care of the elderly at home. However, due to improper treatment by the care recipients, a mixture of "fraudulent groups" and "trade unions" have spawned. ” mysterious organization. While presenting long-term social issues through science fiction, "Xiaoya" also demonstrates the author's rich imagination and creative potential.
📒"Hamlet" in "The Haunted Place", a dialogue between classics
There is a literary game of reading out the homages in a work and reading out the chemistry between them.
Literary classics always make people feel unattainable. Speaking of Jane Augustine, the British literary giant, her works must be difficult to understand? Those who have watched "BJ's Diary" will definitely not think this movie is obscure. It is Fielding's comedy column based on the plot of "Pride and Prejudice", written into a novel, and inherits Jane Augustine's sharp humor.
Shakespeare is also a British literary giant. It is indeed difficult to write English classical Chinese in the 16th and 17th centuries, but the plot is not difficult at all, and the bloodshed is very interesting. "Twelfth Night" is one of Shakespeare's most highly rated comedies. This may lead people to misunderstand that "Twelfth Night" is all about high-class dramas that are incomprehensible. In fact, this is not the case. "Football Girl" can be hilarious at any age. LOL, the plot and twist are straight out of Twelfth Night. We can even regard Wilde's theater work "No Child's Play" to Wilder's Hollywood movie "Some Like It Hot" and "Miss White" inspired by "Some Like It Hot" as the comedy genealogy that begins with "Twelfth Night" .
"Hamlet" is a classic that "A Place in Hell" pays homage to.
The story begins when the King of Denmark dies suddenly, and the King's younger brother declares his succession to the throne and marries the original Queen. Prince Hamlet was of course very sad. His father had just died, his uncle forced him to take the throne, and his mother immediately remarried his uncle. At that time, he heard the guards said that there was a ghost appearing in the castle. He intuitively felt that the cause of his father's death was not simple, and there must be injustice, so he went to investigate. Unexpectedly, the ghost told Hamlet that he was poisoned by his uncle and asked the prince to avenge him. Hamlet was not sure whether the ghost was his father, so he could only find a way to test his uncle. The most brilliant method was that the prince asked the troupe to perform a play and invited his uncle to watch it. When the king was poisoned by his brother, the uncle reacted fiercely, which convinced Hamlet The ghost is the father and continues on the path of revenge. In the end, the prince succeeded in killing his uncle with a poisoned sword, and he and his mother were also killed by the poisoned wine prepared by his uncle.
Shakespeare's ghost tells the protagonist the truth, while Chen Sihong's ghost lets the truth follow the wind.
"Memory is the medium for my existence and transmission. Through my memory and the memories of others, I can "be here", here, present, here, there...I can find the medium at any time, pile up The dark place full of secrets is the best medium, warm and moist, so I am always "there". "
In "Ghost Place", the ghost of his father Chen Tianshan appears in a monologue. Like the King of Denmark, he has a secret in his heart. The difference is that Chen Tianshan's wife knows this secret, his business partners know it, a neighbor knows it, and his second daughter Shuli knows it. Only the protagonist of this book, his youngest son Chen Tianhong, does not know it. The father who hides a secret, the mother who has a sense of belonging, and the protagonist's young son who returns home from Germany are obviously settings developed from "Hamlet" and are established in such a three-dimensional way because of Yongjing's folk beliefs. I believe that "Ha" is not only a carrier of his family's story, but needs to be read in parallel to understand Chen Sihong's intentions.
In "Ha", the prince verified the secret, succeeded in revenge, and died as he wished. "Ghost" is different. The younger son didn't know why his father didn't continue business with the Wang family, and thought he had killed Jingzi. In this family, ghosts Existing in memories, existing in secrets, no truth, no revenge. Do you still remember that there is a drama within a drama in "Ha"? There is also "Ghost". After the younger son killed his lover in Germany, he once thought about suicide. After being imprisoned, he also thought about suicide until the prison cooperated with the theater troupe to stage "Hamlet". The younger son played the prince and lover. My mother came to watch the show in secret. After the play, the two did not recognize each other, but they recognized each other and burst into tears. Is this considered reconciliation? We don’t know, like the ghosts who have never recognized their young son, we don’t know whether the living people are reconciled with their memories, but unlike the prince, they have the courage to live.
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