Blade (selected Works of Maugham)
by G
About This Novel
During World War I, American young man Larry's comrades died trying to rescue him. This experience completely changed Larry's thinking. He began to ask his inner questions: Since there is good in the world, why does evil also coexist? After the war, he stubbornly pursued the answer. He first went to Paris to study philosophy, and then came to a monastery in Bonn. However, Christian doctrine failed to provide him with a satisfactory answer, so he went to Spain and tried to find the true meaning of life through art. After getting no results, he ran to India and stayed there for five years before finally finding his true faith in Indian religion. "The Knife's Edge" is Maugham's full-length work published in 1944. It is based on the famous philosopher Wittgenstein. It profoundly shows the mental journey of an entire generation of Western intellectuals in their search for the meaning of existence, and presents a picture of life in the Western world after World War I. , From the United States to Europe and India, from Paris and London to Chicago and New York, from the city to the seaside, from the upper class to the lower class, the author provides us with a group of vivid and flesh-and-blood characters in a broad geographical and social background.
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