Letters: The communication of information is limited, and the subconscious is looming.
Love letter: the speaker is eager for information and emotion to be fully understood and accepted, full of emotion, but still has a dual structure.
Poetry: a love letter full of metaphors, deliberately published, with two readers: the public and a specific audience. The so-called critics hope to break the boundaries between them.
Myth: the connection between public history and personal history, and the communication between culture and privacy.
Diary: negotiation between self and subconscious, forged autobiography
Autobiography: a self-evident lie, a disguised personality
Paper: Self-explanation in the Special Discourse System
Novel: the combination of the above, the carnival of language
First of all, this book brings a lot of reading pleasure. After reading David Lodge's Small World, Treatment and The British Museum Is Falling, I am afraid that I will eventually fall into the quagmire of campus novels, mixed with surprises. I, an empty shell full of abstract concepts, seem to have finally found a way to return to concrete, but it seems to announce a fate, because it is too much for my appetite. I'm afraid it will form a kind of imprisonment. I imagine all kinds of discomfort when I encounter works like local novels in the future. I have a hunch that once I become picky about the taste of books, the consequences will be very serious and incalculable.
Campus novel cannot be equated with pure literature, but it is authentic elite literature, belonging to a certain circle and a certain salon. Its theme and language make people quite uncomfortable, but it can make people in the "small world" smile at each other strangely and tacitly. Although people here gathered together for various unknown reasons, they eventually formed a unique kingdom with their own language, and an obscure and isolated language system full of metaphors gradually constructed, disintegrated and reconstructed itself. In the final analysis, the people inside the besieged city are actually ordinary people, but they are good at or used to or have to use a so-called academic way to hide or vent or express their desires.
The trouble is that Possession is not a complete campus novel, but also a fusion of romance novels and detective novels. Since I can read it, I can't resist it. This kind of expression may make you think that what you see is Xian Yi's masterpiece, which is suitable for all ages and suits both refined and popular tastes. In fact, its academic spirit is still too heavy. Douban scored only 7 stars. I have to say that many readers who smell its name and want to taste it.
This goes back to the previous topic-the language full of metaphors is wonderful, but at the same time it is bitter, difficult to understand and chilly; Although the lifestyle of academic exploration is wrapped in the shell of popular suspense drama, it is still far from the consciousness and logic of ordinary people; The hero of academic style seems delicate and gentle, but in fact he is too calm and lonely, and he is a romantic outsider. However, in the eyes of most ordinary readers, this romance is too thin and empty. Contemporary scholar novels are unwilling to deconstruct romantic love in postmodern language, which almost completely violates the purpose and way of writing love in popular novels. But for me, it presents almost the same happiness as adults returning to their first love. The cage of language.
First of all, the author, A. s. byat 1936, was born in a scholarly family in Yorkshire, cold and humid. Both parents are intellectuals, and there are four brothers and sisters as talented as the Brontes. Fortunately, there is no cloud hanging over the Bronte family all the time. All four of them have thrived and made their own achievements. As the eldest daughter, Byatt is not as miserable as Charlotte. Byatt is the married husband's surname, and drabble is her maiden name. Margaret drabble, another woman writer who occupies a place in the history of contemporary literature, is her twin sister.
Like many contemporary British writers, Byatt has been a professor of literature in London University for more than 20 years, and his academic experience is closely related to his writing style. Possession, published by 1990, is regarded as his masterpiece and is world-famous for winning the Booker Prize. Women, scholars, literature and talents are the key words of this introduction, and these words also flicker between the lines of the work. You will feel them clearly from time to time, but I'm not entirely sure about their order, such as whether "women" really comes before "scholars".
The original meaning of possession is "possession". As the title of a novel, this word is too obscure and abstract, which is not conducive to marketing, so it is translated into "hidden text". Although semi-literate and elusive, it seems to be better than a more straightforward "love letter" after all. The original name of "possession" obviously has a richer meaning and is closer to the theme and style. The behavior of "possession" connects the subject and the object at both ends. The noun form of possession can include an action from beginning to end, from brewing to chasing, to carrying on, to completing,,, subject and object show various kinds, and the so-called "subject" and ".
Therefore, multi-level themes flow in the body of romance, suspense drama and campus novels, flowing out of blood vessels and flowing in the body. The aftertaste lingers. Yes, not deliberately rendering. This is really how I feel. A body, a warm body, the imprint of life flows everywhere, and the soul lingers for a long time, but it is warm for a long time.
Why? Because that story, which is similar to love, appears in the biographies of male poet and female poet Hongyan and is embedded in the core of the whole novel. Why do you say "similar" is because, to some extent, the story transcends the boundaries of romance. Beyond romance, "love" is an uncertain or nonexistent concept, which can only exist in the middle stage of history and in romance. It can neither appear in myth nor in contemporary novels, because contemporary psychology banishes this illusory concept.
Strangely, myths are often amazing contemporary. For example, all the so-called love is just the reflection of Narcissus indulging in the stream-self-projection. From this point of view, the wisdom achieved by the ancients through myths is often beyond our reach, and the myth in Possession seems to have been paying tribute to Homer's wisdom since Roland read Ashi's Vico books.
Let me try to describe the core of that life, which is actually only a small part of this similar love story. The author weaves a huge cloth with countless pieces of myth, poetry and plot clues (it is not a picture scroll because its function is only), and tightly wraps a most essential and subtle dialogue that may be related to love. In the correspondence between ash and lamentte, those letters are full of life and emotion. Almost from pieces of paper, from the whole book, it rises, very much like an organism. Words, imagination and emotions are gorgeous and impeccable, but at the same time they are true, natural and credible ... Isn't this the original starting point for Byer to close up such a masterpiece? I often believe that the idea of a novel begins with a face, a look and a conversation, and then, with a look, it will last forever.
What we can feel is that letters turn words into words, full of yearning for listeners, and the shining life makes people unwilling to read and stare; An ideal dialogue, with delicate feelings, is in each other's minds. Similar to Narcissus' perfect lover, the subtle expression is absorbed by the stream. Amazing, but just a fantasy, in fact, has surpassed the so-called love; On the surface, there is a strong lust, attraction and competition between the two sexes behind the high spiritual fit. The object of desire always points to the body and is ready to move behind all spiritual conversations. Women writers' lamentation euphemistically expresses women's pain of sticking to themselves, which contains strong love and fierce struggle. ...
What's more, in the time and space of19th century and under the disguise of the writer status of the hero and heroine, these love letters are extremely popular and reserved, and the secret love desire is hidden in the "cucumber sandwich", which is undercurrent and full of tension. The rest of the narratives are in contrast, just like a small fetus with a beating heart, living in the mother's body.
This makes people have to suspect that this core of life is difficult to survive alone in the contemporary context, and it needs to create a matrix, so Byatt created such a modern treasure hunt story similar to the Da Vinci Code. In short, these are the most brilliant things, because they are well written and rich in content, and the images of the two protagonists are vividly portrayed. In contrast, the follow-up story is redundant, but as far as narrative integrity is concerned, it seems that it cannot be abandoned. For example, ash and lamentte met, fell in love, and left a child after a big fight. This seems inevitable for romance, but in my opinion, it is full of storage.