Red and Black

I have sacrificed all my entertainment time these days. Finished reading. Emotions are meaningless and will eventually turn into nothing but "middle class" interest. (Please allow me to hypocritically refuse to be arty) Let's simply focus on Zheng Kru's preface and talk about some issues worthy of in-depth elaboration. (Of course I don't think it's correct to overelaborate) 1. Regarding character creation, Mr. Zheng believes that winning through details is worthy of recognition. However, the small examples cited are Armand, the waitress in the coffee shop who is waiting for her lover, and the young bishop, Agde. These two images are not as vivid and touching as Fouquet and Father Silang, and the narrative in the indirect interspersion is more vivid. 2. In a certain sense, Mr. Zheng believes that Sorel Julien does not like Mathilde, which is worth elaborating. It can be clearly seen that Julien was in agony for Mathilde, and his love was heartbreaking and life-and-death. Although it was undoubtedly mixed with ambition, pure love also showed a bit. 3. If Mr. Zheng considers this book to be a love novel, the theme should be from the perspective of criticizing feudal marriage. At this point, he can only cleverly believe that there are still "blanks" and "unfixed points" that Ingarten believes. In terms of love, Mrs. Renard mainly focuses on maternal love, while Mathilde is based on fantasy, which objectively reflects the blindness and purity of love. 4. Regarding introversion (or psychological description), Mr. Zheng believes that psychological description "is mainly about the author getting deep into the characters' hearts and always staying with them." At this point, I think the author's psychological description is more like a "narrative". To elaborate too much would be to fall into the abyss of defamiliarization and resistance. Strictly speaking, it is a spiritual perspective based on scientific and calm observation. 5. I firmly support Mr. Zheng's point of view, but "Red and Black", as the masterpiece that opened the 19th century realism, is too explanatory, whether it is characters, plot, structure and expression techniques. For example, during the secret meeting, Mr. Zheng believed that the participants proposed massacres and assassinations, which was questionable. (Only for the small point of massacre, of course) 6. It is worth mentioning that the witty "publisher" (as well as Mr. Renard's stupidity and Julien's father's greed) use many ironic words to give the book a more or less humorous style. 7. Having said this, my thoughts are a little confused. Of course, I am speaking from the perspective of resisting "expecting readers", so it is not important. Just say this.

Julien is a handsome and talented man. Due to his humble status, he is extremely concerned about his own self-esteem. Once his self-esteem is hurt, he will not hesitate to attack the other party. No matter how noble the other party is, he is not afraid. It is this common people who dare to resist and are unwilling to flatter the nobles that attracts the admiration and love story of two "queens" with quite good status, even noble ones. The first is Mrs. Renard. As a reader, I love her kindness, sincerity, innocence and beauty. Her feelings for Lian are rare nowadays. Julien brought her a feeling of love and true love that she had never experienced before. Even if she died together with Julien in the end, she was happy. Her children loved her, and Julien loved her too. Through Renard's criticism of the money-transaction love in society at that time, women did not have the freedom to choose their own love, resulting in unhappy marriages. Next is Mathilde, this changeable, thrill-seeking, and "great" love who is capricious in reputation, status, identity, and love. She was the most thoughtful and free woman of her class and era. She did not submit to anyone, and was even arrogant to the point of overriding everyone. But love often changes a person. Her love for Julien made her plead with Julien not to leave her, ask her father to give her a sum of money to fly away with Julien, and ask others to help Julien be acquitted. Regardless of any reputation, even when Julien died, she picked up Julien's head and kissed it like an ancestor. This was also an almost extraordinary love. If Mathilde's love is surging, ever-changing, and passionate, then Mrs. Renard's love is gentle, equal, and continuous. The love between the two women is different. Mathilde's love is in line with the performance that a young girl should have at her age. "Love is like a blue sky and white clouds, a clear sky, and a sudden storm." She pursues exciting and perfect love. Although Mrs. Renard is a wife, she still has an innocent, romantic and beautiful heart. She has seen all kinds of life and believes that the happiest thing is to stay together until old age. Finally, I want to say that Julien's resistance, especially his speech in court, is his contempt for the landlord class. He is unwilling to be ordinary and has great ambitions. But he is also contradictory and hypocritical. On the one hand, he despises the nobility, but when he has to, he puts down his own pride, especially when pursuing Mathilde. The characters are full and three-dimensional. Every time I see them, it feels like I'm watching scenes of a play flashing before my eyes. This work is undoubtedly my favorite foreign masterpiece!

When I read the physical book, I felt it was so big and thick. Only then did I realize that Julien's life was written down in this way. It turned out that no matter how magnificent his life was, it would eventually be stuffed into a small urn. Now it seems that the book is actually very small.

Mr. Narr is an arrogant and unreasonable man who loves to brag. His wife, Mrs. Narr, is a pure, kind and ordinary woman. She hates her husband's arbitrary teasing behavior and also falls in love with a hypocritical teacher. He is Julien. Julien is a very despicable person. The desire in his heart Greater than love, or no love, it is a temporary novelty. He knows his own position and understands why women love him. How should I put it? Anyway, I can't understand a lot of background information. Foreign ideas are really different from those in our country (/(°∞°)\)

Delicate description and strong sense of substitution. The protagonist took me into his life and saw the operating rules of the upper class society. I have some questions: For a person with such a profound philosophy of life, can love really account for the vast majority of his life?

The author Zheng Kelu created the characters in a three-dimensional way, which made me feel the atmosphere of that era. This reminds me of "The Great Gatsby", which is also a story about ambition and pursuit. However, "Red and Black" has a more French romance and delicacy. All in all, this is a book well worth reading!

It is rare that someone can read "The Red and the Black". I forced myself to read it more than 20 years ago, but it took me two full months to finish the book of less than 200,000 words. Watching it again now, I didn't expect that more than 20 years have passed. Alas

A masterpiece with a bit of cool literary flair

Ah, Julien, what an outstanding Julien who refuses to be ordinary!

Real and lively, it is unforgettable for others to watch. I would like to take this golden moment to thank the author for his hard work.

The structure is clear and beautiful. I like it very much.

Very good looking, I really like Julien's character

The content of the novel is comprehensive, objective, described from multiple dimensions, highly readable, and worth reading.

Very good name

It sounds great! The plot is very vivid.

[Smile] After watching it, I can only say that "The God of Stairs" is karma.

I couldn't see it at first, but later I cried. It felt like it was talking about me.

A very good world famous book!

I can read and listen, and speaking with audio is pretty good.

Excellent content and clear narrative

A nice novel to read and listen to! ! !

Good and worth reading

Nice novel, thumbs up!

Julien is a good boy

It sounds great, and this book is meaningful.

Simple language and strong contrast

Real and objective, novel ideas

This novel is so nice to listen to and read

This book is super nice

I like it very much, very beautiful