[Today’s Good Book Sharing]——Literary Theme
“The Rose of Chekhov” by Gu Chunfang
Chekhov is a great novelist and dramatist, he also has an identity – Excellent gardener.
The author of this book is a professor at Peking University’s School of Art. She takes “nature and gardening” as the theme, and takes us to appreciate the other side of the master, which can also be regarded as a different kind of biography.
This book is beautifully framed, with numerous paintings and photographs, all in color. Here we can see the portraits of Chekhov himself in different periods, the portraits of family members and the real scenes of the gardens described in his novels. Just flipping through the pages is already pleasing to the eye, and it can also be enjoyed together with his novels or plays to fill the gaps in the imagination.
There are still some in the book: letters, diaries, and description passages in novels. Even people who have not read Chekhov’s works can read this and have a good understanding of him and the literary world he wrote. vivid understanding.
Abstract:
Who has ever caught a bass once in his life, or seen a thrush fly south in the fall, and see how they fly across the country in a flock on a clear, cool day He no longer wanted to be a city man, and he would yearn for that free life until his death.
Every time I write is to pick the pollen of the most beautiful flowers, it is a death, and every time I return to nature, it is a new life. Nature is a good sedative.
Chekhov, who had seen the hell on earth Sakhalin Island, affirmed that writers must have a sense of justice, and he believed that “a sense of justice is more precious than air.” He realized that in life, everyone, including a society, must have a “general concept” and a “clear world view”, otherwise it is impossible to have a “conscious life”.