"Lisa's Lament" describes the tragic story of Lisa, an aristocratic young woman who fled to Paris and Shanghai in the East after the October Revolution, struggled hard for life, and finally became a prostitute. The novel contrasts Lisa's past glory with her current decline, and vividly and delicately describes the tragic process of the protagonist from running out of money to being desperate, to disguised prostitution, to open prostitution, and to death from syphilis, vividly rendering Lisa's complex mentality and emotions. At the same time, because the whole novel takes the form of the protagonist's self-narration, it makes the beauty's tragic fate more profound.
Reader comments
I have very complicated feelings about Lisa, or she is a very complicated person. On the one hand, when faced with being forced to leave her motherland, she had the spirit of refusing to surrender, and she had sympathy for the farmers her husband killed. On the one hand, she is a parasite of the old era, fixating her sights on the glory of the past and refusing to admit her identity as an "exploiter." Until the end, suffering from syphilis, she finally understood that old Russia and she were long gone. With a strong longing for the land of Russia, like a white snow falling on a foreign land, can the similar colors between heaven and earth continue to Russia as far away as Europe?
The first-person perspective makes people feel real. Under the celestial changes in the general environment, a small person can only survive. Everything is fate, nothing is up to you!
This book tells the tragic fate of Lisa in the form of a self-narration, and the plot is very attractive. Through Lisa's experience, we can feel her pain and helplessness. I especially hate Lisa's husband. Instead of supporting Lisa during difficult times, he chooses to run away. However, this book also made me appreciate my current life more.
Alas, it's true, it's just a little love from childhood
I have very complicated feelings about Lisa, or she is a very complicated person. On the one hand, when faced with being forced to leave her motherland, she had the spirit of refusing to surrender, and she had sympathy for the farmers her husband killed. On the one hand, she is a parasite of the old era, fixating her sights on the glory of the past and refusing to admit her identity as an "exploiter." Until the end, suffering from syphilis, she finally understood that old Russia and she were long gone. With a strong longing for the land of Russia, like a white snow falling on a foreign land, can the similar colors between heaven and earth continue to Russia as far away as Europe?
The first-person perspective makes people feel real. Under the celestial changes in the general environment, a small person can only survive. Everything is fate, nothing is up to you!
This book tells the tragic fate of Lisa in the form of a self-narration, and the plot is very attractive. Through Lisa's experience, we can feel her pain and helplessness. I especially hate Lisa's husband. Instead of supporting Lisa during difficult times, he chooses to run away. However, this book also made me appreciate my current life more.
Alas, it's true, it's just a little love from childhood