Chapter 3 A bookstore with a different atmosphere

A bookstore with a different atmosphere Hong Kong recently opened a bookstore specializing in foreign language books and periodicals: Peace Bookstore. I took a look.Since it is newly opened, there are not many types of books and periodicals on display, and most of the books to be bought have already been bought. bought.But looking around the bookcase, from classical literature, aesthetics, and social sciences, After all, the atmosphere is a bit different, because things you are used to seeing in foreign language bookstores in Hong Kong are not found here. There are many things you can see here that are not found in other bookstores.

There are always one or two foreign language bookstores with such a unique style in most major cities in the world, such as the one in Paris. Universal Bookstore, Colette Bookstore in London, readers in Britain and France, if you want to read the books and periodicals of New China, you can go to Be sure to visit them.Although this kind of bookstore is not "doujin" in nature, it always looks like a doujin It’s like a small publication or a publishing house, once you walk in, you have a very friendly feeling. The International Bookstore in Beijing is also such a bookstore, and its scale is much larger.I used to buy

Once a book, it is really a veritable international bookstore.Although there are some languages ​​that I cannot read, But whether it is in Swedish, Polish, or Egyptian, as long as it is a book, and it is I can't help holding a book with healthy content and rubbing it in my hand, it's like meeting someone who doesn't understand the language. Like foreign friends, even if you can't express your heart, but warmly shake hands, the warmth of friendship still communicate with each other.At that time, I used to remove some foreign language books and periodicals that I could not understand from the shelf again and again.

I took them down from the Internet, trying to figure out their titles and contents, but I also couldn't bear to let them go. In the past, there was a bookstore like this in Shanghai. It was originally opened near the General Post Office at Luqiao, North Sichuan. For Suzhou Creek, it was later moved to Jing’an Temple Road. It was opened by an old German lady. I can’t remember this place anymore. It was the only bookstore in Shanghai that exclusively sold books in progressive foreign languages.at that time Although there are already large-scale Western bookstores opened by Americans and British, they do not sell these books.

Books, and the clerks inside are astonishingly snobbish, except for the regular customers, the unfamiliar Chinese go Go in, they will follow you like thieves, or even tell you not to move the frame book of.Mr. Lu Xun encountered such a thing that he had to take out a stack of banknotes from his arms and put them on the table. Said that he brought money to buy books, not to steal books, which made the clerk look at him with admiration. This bookstore opened by an old German lady left a deep impression on me.Because it is in that little window Here, I saw for the first time Kollwitz's original prints.This batch of prints was later bought for Mr. Lu Xun

went.I had the opportunity to see the English translation of "Das Kapital" and books such as "Ten Days That Shocked the World", All thanks to this bookstore.I still have a German version of the great Mexican painter in my bookcase. It was from this bookstore that I bought Fela's painting collection.Just now I took it out and flipped through it, and there are still Remembering "buying two days before New Year's Eve in 1932..." made me relive these lovely memories.