Bai Xianyong Talks About Dream of Red Mansions in Detail (complete Works)
by Bai Xianyong
About This Novel
When the 80-year-old Bai Xianyong meets the 300-year-old Cao Xueqin, listen to how everyone in the Chinese world of novels interprets "The No. 1 Book in the World" and see the spiritual connection between the two eras of literary geniuses across time and space. This book is compiled from the lecture notes of Bai Xianyong's introductory general course (2014-2015) on "A Dream of Red Mansions" at National Taiwan University. "A Dream of Red Mansions" is a heavenly book with endless mysteries to explain and endless secrets to explore, but most importantly, it is a great novel after all. Bai Xianyong rectifies the source and introduces this literary classic as a novel, focusing on analyzing the "modernity" of the novel art of "A Dream of Red Mansions": mythological structure, character creation, text style, narrative techniques, use of point of view, dialogue skills, symbolic metaphors, parallel comparisons, and foreshadowing. He examines how Cao Xueqin maximizes the various elements that constitute the novel, far beyond its era, and even earlier and more avant-garde than Western modernist literature. With the artistic sensitivity of a novelist, he wiped away the dust of the classics, and restored the characters that had been neglected and misunderstood to their original personalities one by one, allowing them to bloom on the stage. In the process of reading and contemplating the art of words, it interprets the wonderful true meaning of Chinese philosophy of life and the cultural code of human society. It also extends from a great novel to talk about literature, aesthetics, philosophy, and the branches and branches of Kunqu Opera, constructing a dreamlike red mansion. Bai Xianyong took this opportunity to read carefully, carefully compared the differences between the "Gengchen version" and the "Cheng Yi version", weighed the weight and subtle meaning of every word, and was able to rediscover the long-lost beauty of the "Cheng Yi version" and "Dream of Red Mansions".
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Official(33)Scraped 20d ago
Just keep reading. The electronic version costs 70 yuan, which is a bit expensive.
Just take a look~~
Jiang Xun's is also good
Joy, laughter and sorrow are all false, greed and longing are always due to ignorance
In the past and future, it is not said that wisdom and virtuous people can break it; Cause and effect, it is important to know that closeness does not mean meeting. Arouse infatuation
This book is too expensive
Anyone who wants to guess a riddle has a hint.
So how did I read books before?
Not bad, keep reading. . . . .
Qiao Ping'er Yong Qingwen, the characters are written so vividly
The explanation is like a narration. Although Dream of Red Mansions was the leading figure in the novel world before, I don't know why. This time I started with Bai Xianyong's interpretation of Red Mansions, and then followed the drama. When I read the novel of Red Mansions, the most touching thing is that Red Mansions can indeed be called the greatest novel in China! Because of the interpretation, I have a deeper, more comprehensive and clear understanding of the relationship between the characters, as if Cao Xueqin was talking about the intention of coming here. The most important point in evaluating a great novel is whether the characters are successfully portrayed and whether they are typical. You can tell who the person is from their words. Foreshadowing and clues are everywhere. The characters, clothing, language, scenery, and descriptions of many places in the Grand View Garden seem to be right in front of you. The plot of the story is bizarre and twists and turns, but it is so coherent that it is inevitable. Every sentence in the article is continuous. Poetry is the soul of Daiyu. Isn't the author the originator of poetry!
The first 33 episodes are free, which is pretty good
Easy to understand and very detailed.
Rating
Community(0)
Official(33)Scraped 20d ago
Just keep reading. The electronic version costs 70 yuan, which is a bit expensive.
Just take a look~~
Jiang Xun's is also good
Joy, laughter and sorrow are all false, greed and longing are always due to ignorance
In the past and future, it is not said that wisdom and virtuous people can break it; Cause and effect, it is important to know that closeness does not mean meeting. Arouse infatuation
This book is too expensive
Anyone who wants to guess a riddle has a hint.
So how did I read books before?
Not bad, keep reading. . . . .
Qiao Ping'er Yong Qingwen, the characters are written so vividly
The explanation is like a narration. Although Dream of Red Mansions was the leading figure in the novel world before, I don't know why. This time I started with Bai Xianyong's interpretation of Red Mansions, and then followed the drama. When I read the novel of Red Mansions, the most touching thing is that Red Mansions can indeed be called the greatest novel in China! Because of the interpretation, I have a deeper, more comprehensive and clear understanding of the relationship between the characters, as if Cao Xueqin was talking about the intention of coming here. The most important point in evaluating a great novel is whether the characters are successfully portrayed and whether they are typical. You can tell who the person is from their words. Foreshadowing and clues are everywhere. The characters, clothing, language, scenery, and descriptions of many places in the Grand View Garden seem to be right in front of you. The plot of the story is bizarre and twists and turns, but it is so coherent that it is inevitable. Every sentence in the article is continuous. Poetry is the soul of Daiyu. Isn't the author the originator of poetry!
The first 33 episodes are free, which is pretty good
Easy to understand and very detailed.
