The Education of Love (formerly known as Heart) is a diary novel written by the Italian writer Edmund de Amicis, which was first published in 1886.
The Education of Love is a diary novel, which describes the life of Amway Ke, a fourth-grade primary school student, in a school year, interspersed with "stories" told by teachers every month, and many enlightening articles written by parents for him.
In Italy alone, The Education of Love has printed more than10 million copies and been translated into many languages. This work has also been adapted into cartoons and feature films for many times, and painted into beautiful pictorial.
Theme of the work
This is a children's literature for the purpose of education. It promotes great patriotism and praises the lofty feelings of unity and friendship between people; It encourages people to eliminate class concepts and strive to achieve mutual respect and equality among people from all walks of life.
The original Italian name of The Education of Love is Kuol. If translated literally, it should mean "heart". Treating everyone around us with "heart", that is, using the concept of "sincere heart and equal heart", is the educational theme of this book, and it is also the most limited and even the most "failed" place in this book.
As a professional journalist, the author has a profound understanding of his time. He clearly knew that in those days, the biggest communication barrier between people belonged to different classes, which could not be solved simply by shouting "heart".
But he didn't have the courage to speak his innermost thoughts, so he had to take evasive and circuitous measures to call on all teenagers to be children with "hearts". The author himself has long recognized this point, so after the success of Education for Love, he made a profound self-criticism on the contradiction between his so-called "intellectuality" and "emotion" in some media.
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