Stanbul Train
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About This Novel
The legendary master nominated for the Nobel Prize for Literature 21 times! A master writer highly respected by Marquez and Faulkner, Graham Greene is a highly regarded and famous work. By describing a group of passengers on the train, it shows the spiritual outlook of an era. All the things that I love but that you doubt, I will do my best to do. On the Orient Express bound for Stanbul, passengers with different identities, different personalities, and different purposes such as Jewish businessman Myatt, political exile Zinner, song and dance actor Collor, British journalist Mabel, best-selling author Savory, and habitual thief Grünlich met each other, and a series of unexpected events occurred. By describing this group of passengers, Green shows the social status and spiritual outlook of Europe in the 1930s, and where they should go in this chaotic era. All the things that I love but that you doubt, I will do my best to do.
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Has the revolution not yet succeeded?
This book tells the story of a communist revolutionary who fled and prepared to return to his country for revolution, but died on the road before he could return home. Revolution is a hard thing. The revolutionary Jinner himself was unable to convince himself, which also proved that he had complex desires, not only purely for the interests of the people, but also for personal interests and full of revenge. While this satirizes the revolutionaries, it also proves a point that one should be honest about one's own thoughts. If you want to think about women, you just want to think about women. If you want to live, you just want to live. When you see that the people are not living well, you want to launch a revolution. Just relying on one person's opinion is one-sided. What is even more regrettable is that what Zinner cannot convince is the disparity in life background. The reason why Koret and the police officer cannot understand is because they cannot empathize with the war-torn life of the poor. That's why this book is so real and sad.
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Official(1)Scraped 11d ago
Has the revolution not yet succeeded?
This book tells the story of a communist revolutionary who fled and prepared to return to his country for revolution, but died on the road before he could return home. Revolution is a hard thing. The revolutionary Jinner himself was unable to convince himself, which also proved that he had complex desires, not only purely for the interests of the people, but also for personal interests and full of revenge. While this satirizes the revolutionaries, it also proves a point that one should be honest about one's own thoughts. If you want to think about women, you just want to think about women. If you want to live, you just want to live. When you see that the people are not living well, you want to launch a revolution. Just relying on one person's opinion is one-sided. What is even more regrettable is that what Zinner cannot convince is the disparity in life background. The reason why Koret and the police officer cannot understand is because they cannot empathize with the war-torn life of the poor. That's why this book is so real and sad.
