Chapter 66 novels by book lovers

novels by book lovers France's "The Crime of Bonnard" is one of my favorite novels.This book has been translated into Chinese years, but it seems that there are not many readers, which just shows that such a rich work is not It is easy to gain the interest of ordinary people, and this is why I love reading "The Crime of Bonnard". Surrounded by the atmosphere of antique books, Bonnard, his love of books, and his clean life The love of love can only be written by France, who has been nurtured in the environment of loving books since he was a child. Novels with a book lover as the protagonist, except for France's "The Crime of Bonnard", in recent years

What made me unable to put it down were several short stories by Stefan Zweig. Wrote "A Letter from a Strange Woman" and Zweig who wrote "Killer", even if he put Regardless of his writers, his achievements in novels are already worthy of admiration, but in this In addition, he has written many short stories that can deeply grasp the samadhi of love books. This talent not only makes me admire, but also It just makes me jealous. I am not very familiar with Zweig's life.But I am sure that if he is not a book lover himself, It is absolutely impossible to write such a work that is deeply rooted in it.

A few years ago, the English translation of Zweig's works combined several short stories like his, plus two about Interesting essays on books, I compiled and printed a booklet titled "Secondary Booksellers and Others, Stories for Book Lovers" thing".The length of the book is not much, but the printing is extremely exquisite. I asked Li Ganji Bookstore to try to buy it from overseas. Come, read and read, almost love it. These short stories by Zweig seem to have been written not long after the end of the First European War. Everywhere in Germany, where the economy was bankrupt after the war, how bibliophiles and art collectors were compared

A more tragic misfortune for ordinary people.Among them is an article titled "Invisible Collection", which is even more fascinating to read. will not forget. A print dealer, because he wanted to search for some masterpieces of prints that were increasingly scarce, remembered that he had Among the many regular customers, there is a certain family who lives in a remote city.This guy bought a lot of copies from him Painting, now that the society is in a downturn, this person may intend to sell his collection.The businessman specially went to access.Unexpectedly, due to the recession, in order to maintain the daily bread needs, a certain's precious collection has long been secretly

It was sold out sporadically by his wife and daughter.A certain family, who is blind in both eyes, holds a picture album full of blank paper every day, still Caressing like a treasure.Therefore, when the print dealer came to visit, he almost exposed this tragedy, Fortunately, the mother and daughter explained it in time, so the businessman had no choice but to deceive the blind man and praise him. How rich the collection was, and then walked away with sentimental feelings. I have wanted to translate this short story for a long time, but I never had the chance to start writing.A few years ago, in

In the first half of the month when the war broke out in Hong Kong, after my recommendation, brother Ge Baoquan took this little book from my bookshelf Borrowed.I haven't seen him since the war, and he seems to have left early.Even walking away from the gunfire alone Here is also good, I hope this little book will be lucky enough to be brought by his side.