#Reading Thoughts# Introduction The publication of Wang Xiaobo's "The Golden Age" achieved a breakthrough in educated youth literature. The work's positive writing of sex, criticism and ridicule of reality, reflection on human living conditions, and demonstration of human freedom and authenticity are very different from the educated youth novels before the 1990s. For more related information, please pay attention to the review channel!
A selection of thoughts after reading "The Golden Age"
This book describes another kind of life in the era of educated youth, which is repression and reaction. A depressing life. Wang Er and Chen Qingyang followed their instincts and combined naturally and calmly, showing the reality of human nature that acts with youthful willfulness. Here, the body is completely liberated, thus it is the golden age of youthful life.
Wang Er is a typical "little person" and a "superfluous person". He is a 21-year-old young man with a sharp mind. He has endured the torture of hunger, locusts, heavy labor, and the oppression of evil people like military representatives, but he cannot escape. He has developed a sense of hatred in his heart, and has fallen into loneliness and depression. .
He is a man who longs for freedom. He is like a bandit, brutal and powerful. He is like a gangster, doing troublesome things all day long. A large part of his time is spent hitting and avoiding being hit. However, for such a short and tough guy, his heart was soft, but at that time, he had to be tough.
Just like what is written in the book, "That day I was twenty-one years old, in the golden age of my life. I had many extravagant wishes. I wanted to love, to eat, and to become half of the sky in an instant. Bright and half-dark clouds. Later I realized that life is a slow process of being hammered. As people get older, their extravagant hopes disappear day by day, and finally they become like a bull that has been hammered.
But I didn't foresee this when I celebrated my 21st birthday. I felt that I would always be strong and nothing could hit me." His softness was nowhere to be released, and it ended up being given to Chen Qingyang and his pigs. He seems to have always been like this, always fighting and never admitting defeat.
Golden Age
The heroine of the story is the very important woman "Chen Qingyang" mentioned at the beginning. From the beginning, everyone was discussing whether the female doctors who were decentralized were "broken shoes". If the masses say she is, she is, even if she doesn't admit it. But she knows that she is not, and this is a random label given to her by others. She was eager to prove herself. Once, when she was helping Wang Er see a doctor, she felt that he was different from others, so she hurriedly wanted to prove to him that she was not a "bad shoe". Wang Er could have helped her at that time, but he didn't want to, and he thought of a crooked trick for her.
She accepted it, and broke up with Wang Er for the sake of "revolutionary friendship." During this back and forth, she and Wang Er gradually fell in love. So when he heard that Wang Er had been beaten on the bench and passed out, he ran down the mountain with disheveled hair and red and swollen eyes, blatantly exposing his bad behavior, no longer sneaking around, but announcing an indisputable fact to the world. : Chen Qingyang is a broken shoe. This is the most powerful resistance and ridicule to reality. At the same time, it also echoes the central argument of this article: Since you cannot prove that you are innocent, you tend to prove that you are not innocent.
The ironic thing is that when she really is a broken shoe, no one will say that about her. This reflects the social phenomenon of the * period. When people used political ethics and work style as lethal weapons to denounce Chen Qingyang on a large scale, they did not explore the criteria for judgment. They only made subjective assumptions and concluded the crime based on their own position without evidence. To a target that thinks it is impartial, and everyone is accustomed to this situation without any self-reflection. It was difficult for a simple person like Chen Qingyang and a casual person like Wang Er to survive in that absurd era.
She is like a child, willing to have all the good ideas about the world. Just like her and Wang Er, she was willing to unconditionally believe in the "great friendship" Wang Er said. Even if she lost something for it, she would not regret it. And she doesn't seem to understand anything, why people do what they do. But she didn't want to understand it, so she was willing to live innocently like a child in this innocent world.
Wang Er and Chen Qingyang are not in love, they are just a "great friendship" where they exchange bodies. What is a great friendship? "As long as you are my friend, even if you are heinous and intolerable to heaven and earth, I will still stand by your side.
"This is the absolute trust and sincerity between people. It is difficult to distinguish between good and evil in the world, but great friendship will always shine. This is Chen Qingyang's naive idea. She can't tell whether "that great friendship is real or temporary. She made it up to lie to herself." But "those words fascinated her like a spell. Even if she lost everything for it, she would not regret it. ”
The love between the two of them can only end in vain, because their identities are different, and because the times are not suitable, they can only be destined but not destined. Some people may only be suitable for falling in love, and not being together does not mean that it is not beautiful. As long as it was once Having it, and feeling happy and warm when thinking about it in the future, is enough. Just like Wang Er and Chen Qingyang, they are destined to be "lovers" who warm each other, but they are not "lovers" who want to spend the rest of their lives. < /p>
Wang Er said that it was the golden age of his life. No matter how colorful the life in the golden age was, without Chen Qingyang’s participation, the golden age would definitely be overshadowed.
Chen Qingyang said, then. It is also her golden age. Although she is called a broken shoe, she is innocent. For the sake of their great friendship, she does not know where the crime is.
"Great friendship" can be forgiven. But illegal love between two inappropriate people could not be forgiven in that era. Maybe it was Chen Qingyang's fault to fall in love with Wang Er, but so what? She still loved him, and she was willing to take all risks. To love him. She is willing to remain innocent and risk everything to love him. Even if she loses everything for it, she will never regret it. This is a love that does not care about her life, no matter what Wang Er's situation is in the future, or how many women he has. But when he recalls the time when he and Chen Qingyang joined the team in Yunnan when he was 21 years old, he will definitely experience it again and again, full of emotions and sighs.
At that time, they separated and the golden age of their lives ended.
Selected reflections from the second reading of "The Golden Age"
In recent years, due to the development of communication methods, self-media has given celebrities more voice channel, so on Weibo, which was watched by many people, many mysterious and aloof people began to gradually reveal their side of life. Regardless of whether it is good or bad, an unexpected consequence after doing so is : Some literary and artistic creators (literary, film and television, etc.) have begun to show another side that is different from the values ????in their works. I still remember that many years ago, a friend of mine particularly liked a certain domestic director and learned that he I started paying attention to Weibo as soon as I opened it. However, the director’s statements in several major domestic and foreign events made me, my friend, heartbroken: “I shouldn’t have paid attention if I had known. I would rather he was who he is in real life.” How it should be in the works!" After a pause, he added, "How good his early works were, why have they become more and more perfect in recent years!"...
But as a way of saying this. As an adult who was already over 30 years old, I find it hard to believe that his values ????have suddenly changed greatly. It is just because the content expressed in his works is limited, so he does not show many of his ideas... and in the end, he finally In Weibo, a three-dimensional tool, he has fully revealed his own values ??and position judgment.
However, there are some people who I will never believe. Wang Xiaobo is one of the few people who has changed his judgment on his values ??after he became known to more people.
Although Wang Xiaobo died young unfortunately, the legacy he left us is really rich. In addition to novels, there are also a large number of essays circulated in the world. These essays full of his personal values ??and positions will make us We are fully familiar with Wang Er's thoughts; and the quasi-autobiographical novel will give us a more vague understanding of his many experiences in his youth.
Unlike Wang Xiaobo, who appears to be somewhat serious in his essays, his three autobiographical novels "The Golden Age", "At Thirty" and "Time flies" contain quite a lot of absurdities. For example, the content full of violent conflicts that appears many times in the article, or other shocking descriptions, such as the "little monk" he repeatedly showed off, and various sexual scenes with a primitive atmosphere, etc.
Does the content in the novel have any real shadow of his life? Obviously, it does. Looking at Wang Xiaobo’s personal experience: he experienced the Great Leap Forward and the Revolution, worked as an educated youth in Yunnan, and returned to Beijing. Later, I became a teacher... Almost all of these can be found in this book.
However, it is obvious that Wang Xiaobo has hidden many facts behind the description of magical reality. The readers can only rely on their own sense of smell to figure out the truth.
A selection of my thoughts on the third reading of "The Golden Age"
After reading three of Wang Xiaobo's novels, I have to admire this man who has a high status among Chinese readers. The writer finally understood the reason why he was rated as a master. In "A Maverick Pig", I read Wang Xiaobo's unrestrained understanding of this pig's "ignorance of life settings". In "The Silent Majority", I read about his understanding of the art of silence, as well as some social issues that only thinkers can ponder. In "The Golden Age", I read youth, madness and freedom, even an era. Compared with the calmness I felt when I watched the sad movie "A Story More Sad than Sad" just two days ago, this novel was not sad at all but it almost brought tears to my eyes, and it also touched me more deeply. This may be because Wang Xiaobo’s understanding of life and people is so sincere that it moved me.
As the protagonist Wang Er once said: 'That day I was twenty-one years old. In the golden age of my life, I had many extravagant hopes. I wanted to love, I wanted to eat, and I wanted to turn into half-dark clouds in the sky in an instant. Later I realized that life is a slow process of being hammered. As people get older day by day, their extravagant hopes disappear day by day, and finally they become Like a bull that has been hammered. But I didn't foresee this when I celebrated my twenty-first birthday. I feel like I will always be strong and nothing can beat me. ’ It is not difficult to imagine that Wang Er was once a passionate, strong-willed and fearless young man just like us now. The 'golden age' belonging to Wang Er and Chen Qingyang was a crazy experience filled with laughter and tears. Maybe, running away with someone, doing crazy things that go against the times*, and having a youth that you can carefully reflect on when you get older, is the only dream that all young people have, at least that's what I think.
When talking about this book, we have to talk about the description of sex in this book. In that 'non-sexual' era, what happened between Wang Er and Chen Qingyang symbolized the pursuit of freedom, and was also the most direct manifestation of resistance to spiritual imprisonment and the implicit irony and struggle of the times. . In that era of China where thoughts were banned, chaos was unbearable, and there was no future, Wang Xiaobo's special description of sex was also the most direct way to cry out against the closed mind. In this book, sex is a symbol of freedom and unrestrained life, while closed-mindedness is the plastic film that people need to break.
After Wang Xiaobo’s description, the sex in this book is also different from most other sex novels. In those books, the description of sex is either too beautiful or too ugly. In Wang Xiaobo’s opinion, it is It's the most disgusting. He believes that it is normal for human beings to have sexual desires, and that sex itself should be natural and unresisting. And intentional sexual hypocrisy is the sin, the most abhorrent thing. Sex has always been human nature, and it would be the most cruel and hypocritical to deliberately tie it up. After getting along with many people, Wang Er woke up and realized: "How dare you say that you are innocent is a sin in itself." According to my opinion, everyone's nature is to be lazy, lustful and greedy. If you are diligent and thrifty and keep your integrity as pure as jade, you have committed the crime of pretense, which is more abominable than being lazy, lustful and greedy. ’
Wang Xiaobo’s “The Golden Age” is not only very sincere and interesting, but also allowed me to observe the world from a broader perspective. I hope that I can treat life as sincerely as Wang Xiaobo in the future.
A selection of the fourth reading of "The Golden Age"
In the past few years, I have formed a habit of reading classics every night and not surfing the Internet at night. Read it every day, read one book and buy one. Daxirun Supermarket in Dong'a has a special section specializing in books. You can get a 20% discount on books, which feels very cheap. I saw a special collection by Wang Xiaobo at one time, which consists of four books: "Golden Age", "Silver Age", "Bronze Age", and "Dark Iron Age".
I have never read Wang Xiaobo’s works in the past, but I have heard of his name. Especially a few years ago, I saw reports in newspapers that he died in front of a computer, and I also learned that he was originally a university teacher. , and later resigned from his teaching position to devote himself to writing, and he was full of respect for him. I also mentioned the cause of his death in a short novel "Divorce". After seeing his book, it would be out of line for me not to buy it.
But I don’t know what the content is, so I bought “The Golden Age” to check it out first, and then I bought a few other books.
Now that I have finished reading the book, I will write down my impressions.
Generally speaking, I feel that Wang Xiaobo is not a classic writer. In fact, there are not many writers who can be called classics in contemporary China, and we should not hold him in high esteem. I thought it was a full-length novel, but when I bought it I found out it was a collection of five novellas. But the core character in each novella is named "Wang Er", and the events in each novel are often related. This gives people the illusion that it is a long story.
If you start from a positive perspective, you can summarize the following points: As Wang Xiaobo said in the "Afterword" of the book, he was writing about the life of that era. However, in his writings, the so-called life in that era has changed, highlighting the writer's feelings and impressions, and it is a caricatured life. The characters in the book are in double material and spiritual poverty, so poor that only "sex" is left, and it is not a "sex" that can be appreciated. Another point is that in his narration, he uses the most vulgar, most violent, and most indecent words. With the above two points, he was indeed an unconventional and unique writer in the Chinese literary world of the 1980s and 1990s when he wrote. I think this was approved by some literary critics, right? This also shows why most of his works could not be published in China during his lifetime, but only became available after his death in 1997.
Words only make people feel "disgusted". I have also read many foreign classics. Lawrence, who has written the most, never directly writes about the sexual intercourse between two men and women, but only focuses on the mutual love, which gives people the feeling of a kind of *beauty. Gained aesthetic pleasure. "Lady Chatterley's Lover", I think, can be called a classic about sex between men and women. The process of "appraising ugliness" is also a pleasure to read, but Wang Xiaobo's sexual descriptions cannot give people this feeling. He probably uses this kind of narrative as his main theme?
From Wang Xiaobo's sexual narrative, it reminds me of his wife, Ms. Li Yinhe. Li Yinhe is a Chinese sociologist. Her lofty views on sexual issues between men and women are often seen. I think these two couples really have the same language! She said in "Written in the Front" written for Wang Xiaobo's special album, "From the bottom of my heart, I secretly hope that Wang Xiaobo is immortal. "It seems like this is just wishful thinking, right?
If I want to buy another of his books to read, I think I can learn more about this writer, and the process of reading is boring and can easily lead to fatigue. , fell asleep at exactly 11 o'clock, which became a sleeping agent. Whether to buy or not is up to you.
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His writing style is humorous and he is very good at making fun of life
I just think his overall speaking ability is It's very to my taste. The overall feeling is that he doesn't talk about dirty things all the time, but it always feels like he's laying the groundwork for talking about dirty things. The text flows very well
I don't know why. , this book is so catchy to read, and I can’t stop listening to him telling stories. Yellow but not color. Sometimes when you read his stories, you will inadvertently think about the development of the story according to your own thinking, but the author just writes according to his own ideas. He is a master of nonsense. Whether this book is factual or fictional, it is not written in the first or third person. Although it lacks a positive theme and cannot inspire people to make progress, the writing attitude is very good. This is genuine orthodoxy.
Selected thoughts from the fifth reading of "The Golden Age"
Wang Xiaobo said: I was twenty-one years old that year. In the golden age of my life, I had many extravagant hopes. I want to love, I want to eat, and I want to become a half-dark cloud in the sky in an instant. Later I realized that life is a slow process of being hammered. As people get older day by day, their extravagant hopes disappear day by day, and finally they become like a bull that has been hammered.
I have also imagined my golden age, without too many worries, occasionally in a daze when sitting quietly, confused about the future when alone, reading books and composing poems in my free time, having close friends, and wanting to achieve the goal. Far away, and a love full of joy. For everything you love, persevere and bravely pursue, even if the mountains and rivers are dangerous and the road is far away, you may die.
In the golden age, we were always young and frivolous. Maybe we didn’t know what we wanted at all, but we were still so obsessed with confidence. We cannot stand the injustices in society, and we are not willing to compromise easily with the world.
But there is never absolute fairness in this world, and the superpowers God has given everyone are different. Some people have beauty, some have wisdom, some have wealth, and some have diligence. Everyone has their own characteristics, and if you carve them carefully, one day, it will definitely shine.
However, in our impetuous society, the theory of fame, skin, and power always occupy our desolate hearts. We always believe that there are shortcuts in this world, how to catch up with men and women in one month, how to graduate with an annual salary of one million, how to take the postgraduate entrance examination in three months to resume diplomatic relations with Qingbei. This is a common problem for many of us, and we think about these questions every day. Our golden age seems to have slipped away quietly before we could think clearly about these issues.
We are always busy, but the busy things are not so meaningful; we are always confused, thinking about life confusedly, but forget to take every step of the moment; we are always self-conscious Hypnosis, self-impression, self-Buddhism, step by step become unlike the self you want to be. The longing for love, friendship, ideals, and distant places in the golden age seem to have turned into a joke.
The world is very big, but our hearts are very small, and the things they can hold are very limited. Once people are greedy and expand their hearts, their hearts will break into pieces. In our golden age, what should live in our hearts should be the important people in life, the beautiful things, and the pure self, not those insignificant people, not those dirty thoughts, not the self that we even look down on. .
Everyone has their own golden era. Some people have become high-end players in the golden era, while others have become stubborn bronze players. Many controllable and uncontrollable factors write different answers for everyone. I hope we are all people with stars in our eyes and the sun in our hearts.