Chapter 112 forever lawrence

forever lawrence Feng Tang Chinese who have read more English books will inevitably ask such a question: Which is better, Chinese or English.Personally, I firmly believe that this is a matter of quantity.The number is small, less than two or three crosses, and Chinese has an absolute advantage.Sometimes, a word in Chinese is a kind of artistic conception, such as the word "jia", a piece of eaves, a fat pig, a place to sleep, a house to eat and meat is home.Randomly flipping through the lyrics, sometimes, a word card with three Chinese characters is a feeling, "Drunk Flower Yin", the lilac is just right, the spring sun is shining, he is on your lap, have you ever said that it makes you blush if? "Crimson lips", lipstick applied, lip liner drawn, did you think about his eyes when you looked in the mirror for the last time?Five-character quatrains, sometimes, twenty characters is a world, such as Liu Zongyuan's "Jiang Xue", there are heaven, earth, people and birds, and eternal feelings.The number is larger, such as two to three thousand words, and the Chinese and English are the same.Three pieces by Yuan Zhangdai are as readable as the prose by Lamb and Priestley.If the number is larger, such as 200,000 to 300,000 characters, English has an absolute advantage, and almost all Chinese novels cannot be criticized as complicated and lengthy, while many English novels are full of power.

This sense of power comes most strongly from Lawrence's words. Lawrence was born on September 11, 1885 and died of tuberculosis on March 2, 1930, at the age of forty-four. He was an extremely important figure in the literary history of this century.He connects Dickens and Hardy at the top, James and Faulkner at the bottom, and is the link between modern and modern literature.The most important works are: "Sons and Lovers", "Women in Love" and . "Sons and Lovers" is Lawrence's famous work. The novel puts new wine in old bottles, and the chapter structure does not follow the pattern of Victorian novels. However, the social background is no longer important, and the psychology of the characters begins to play the leading role.The novel is full of Oedipus plots. Some men are born as the sons of women. The connection with their mothers is definitely more than an umbilical cord, which cannot be cut with a pair of scissors.They cannot grow up without a lover, and the role of a lover is to make them realize that they cannot do without their mother.On the list of the 100 novels of the twentieth century in the American Modern Library, "Sons and Lovers" is far ahead of Lawrence's other selected novels. It seems that wine is still more important than the bottle, and honest writing is more effective than mysticism.Maybe a hundred years later, people who read Chinese will remember Qiong Yao by chance, just because. , Women in Love and is a loose trilogy.I remember the first time I read it, it was raining and the wind was blowing outside the window, and I was terrified after reading dozens of pages of the book. I suddenly found that some people were free and could think of so many things.The women in these novels remind me of insect females who kill their male mates after mating.

Lawrence is the one who can hear thunder in silence (Kundera is another).The greatest tragedy of a person is not in the outside world, not an earthquake, not a tsunami, but in his heart.Before he died, Lawrence summarized his life as: A savage enough pilgrimage (cruel pilgrimage).Perhaps it is this kind of suffering, this kind of demandingness that never lets go of one's own soul, that creates the power of words.The most unbearable thing for Chinese literati is bitterness. What they pay attention to is poetry and wine. The most important thing is peace of mind.Perhaps, the difference between articles, the difference between Chinese and English, and finally the difference between people.But I have no reason to believe that any kind of writing, if you don't endure hardships, experience suffering, or write bitterness, a writer will never become a master.

One cannot talk about Lawrence without mentioning his last and most criticized novel.The novel was criticized because of its sexuality, but it was not only because of it that it became famous.The themes of the novel are big: people, sexuality, nature, industry, alienation.The structure is exquisite: with sexual intercourse as the structural skeleton, nine times of sexual intercourse, from the first appearance to the climax, from the ground to the sky, unprecedented (if you barely count, Li Yu's "Meat Futon" can also be regarded as the main line of sexual intercourse). "She was completely immersed in a kind of gentle joy, like the rustling breeze in the spring forest, drifting mistyly and cheerfully from the buds that are about to bloom... In her body where countless threads intersect, the little desires Birds are dreaming sweet dreams."

If Qu Yuan read such a text, he would definitely think of those female priests who wore orchids and vanilla and had an ambiguous relationship with him.However, now is the 20th century, and many people already feel that Lawrence is hypocritical and full of Christian preaching, and the above paragraph will be replaced by a sentence: "When you feel confused, fuck." ("When you feel confused , fuck.") Written in Beijing in 1995 Atlanta changed in 1999