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"I think the best detective method is to look into people's hearts from a psychological perspective." Akechi Kogoro, who enjoys studying people, has disheveled hair and sharp eyes. Facing a series of mysterious cases with insufficient evidence, he launched a thrilling psychological showdown with the murderer. The bookstore owner's wife died mysteriously, but two witnesses gave completely opposite testimonies! Living alone in the house where an old woman's body was found, the prisoner tried to pass a lie test to get rid of suspicion completely! An apartment resident was poisoned, but when the poison struck, he only stared at the empty ceiling... A shooting occurred at a party at night, and the gangster's escaping footprints mysteriously disappeared in the ancient well... Akechi Kogoro, who is good at attacking the mind, uses 6 high-level psychological warfare games to show you the flaws in the murderer's subconscious at a glance, and completely defeat the murderer's psychological defenses!

Following "Snow Country", this is a super-long masterpiece from the golden age of creation, confronting the incompleteness and destruction of beauty, the difficulty of survival, and human desire and loneliness. People living in Tokyo have no hometown. Keiko, who lost her husband, met Shunzo Shimaki and his daughter Yumiko. Junzo's wife has been recuperating away from home for many years due to illness, so Keiko and Junzo formed a strange family. Keiko's business is getting better and better. She not only supports the family's expenses, but also bears the medical expenses of Junsan's wife. However, Junsan's company is on the verge of bankruptcy. One day, Junzo suddenly left without saying goodbye and disappeared. In a home that was reorganized like two broken mirrors, Keiko, together with her biological children and adopted daughter, experienced the world's human kindness and kindness in the joys and sorrows of separation, telling a Tokyo story full of love and loneliness.

This book is a collection of novellas by Matsumoto Seicho, including two novellas: "The House on the High Terrace" and "The Female Prisoner Without Prison Clothes". "House on a High Terrace" tells the story of a mansion on a high terrace, where an elderly couple and the widow of their son who died young lived. The young and beautiful widow would summon young men to her home every night to talk loudly about art. But my father-in-law held a tacit attitude towards this. One day, a young man suddenly committed suicide... What kind of truth is wrapped up in this mysterious home and mysterious woman? "Female Prisoners Without Prison Clothes" tells the story of a series of murders in a single women's apartment in Tokyo. This apartment is inhabited by a group of single women with an average age of thirty-two, who have lost interest in marriage (or are afraid of marriage) and have different occupations. They call each other female prisoners and call each other's room "Cell No. Xx". They are imprisoned in a cave-like personal world with no hope or prospects, just like female prisoners.

The content of the story is that d'Artagnan, who was born in a declining noble family, went to Paris to join the army, joined King Louis XIII's musketeer guard, and became good friends with the other three musketeers. In order to protect the reputation of the Queen, Princess Anna of Austria, they fought against Cardinal Richelieu, defeated many obstacles set by Richelieu, went to England, retrieved the Queen's diamonds from the Duke of Buckingham, and thwarted Richelieu's plot to sow discord between the King and Queen.

On her last patrol before switching to civilian duty, Amelia is called to a crime scene where a grisly corpse is found. She immediately speculated, but her opinion was ignored. Paralyzed and able to move only one finger, Lem, a forensic expert, is seriously considering ending his life. When colleagues try to cheer him up by inviting him to solve the gruesome case, he declares that such a minor case isn't worth his time. However, when he carefully studied the documents and photos of the mutilated corpses, he became interested in the case. The murderer threw out clues one after another, seemingly trying to lure them into discovering the next crime scene. In the race against death, they gradually realized that there was something hidden...

Western literary trends and schools have many names, have risen and fallen, and theoretical works on literature and art emerge in endlessly. In almost every era, there have been far-reaching literary theorists. As a literary theorist, he usually has a complete set of theories, which guides and even dominates the literary world at that time. This book is neither an essay nor a novel, but a work of art. A piece of small madeleine cake brought out endless unconscious memories, and then the pen turned sharply. The author strongly criticizes the mechanical and erroneous criticism methods of the authoritative critic Saint-Beuve, and the resulting contempt and misunderstanding of all the literary geniuses in the French literary world at that time. The whole book contains both lyrical narrative and rational speculation. The two complement each other and reflect each other. The style of nearly half of the book is similar to or echoes that of "Reminiscence of Lost Time". It is a condensation of the essence of the author's thoughts and laid the first cornerstone for later textualist and structuralist criticism.

Luctrop's doctor Trifilga only treats wealthy people and treats the poor with a cold shoulder. That night, it was windy and rainy, and the nearby volcano burst into flames from time to time. The daughter, wife, and mother of the patient Walter Kaltifo, who lived in Val Carniu, came several times to ask for a doctor's visit. After rejecting them several times, the doctor finally followed Walter Caldefer's mother to the patient's home. On the way, a nearby volcano suddenly erupted. The doctor fell to the ground. When he got up, the old woman disappeared... The doctor came to the patient's home, but this was the doctor's home! The dying patient is Dr. Trifilga! ... The doctor tried his best to treat her, but in the end he died by his own hands.

Yugo Aosaki, the standard-bearer of the new generation of Japanese mystery literature. The first post-90s writer to win a mainstream mystery award. His work was recommended by the movie "Detective Chinatown", subverting the classic model of detective Sorry, both of us are. There is a detective agency that only knocks on doors without a doorbell, two young detectives who are both partners and rivals, a beautiful high school girl who works part-time as a cook and cleaner, a policewoman who never leaves her mouth for snacks, and a mysterious man who regularly appears in the second-hand bookstore... A group of seemingly weird people, but the cunning murderer has nowhere to hide. Katazashi Hyōsame, who specializes in motive analysis, and Gotemba Kaori, who focuses on the study of crime techniques. Even if it is a case that leaves no clue, the two detectives with a clear division of labor can solve it through seamless cooperation and tacit understanding!

Zhen'er, 13 years old, lives in the future world. She is alone at all times. What will happen if she breaks into the unknown? Minecraft can be regarded as the memories of a generation there. For some reason, the game that lives in the memories has been targeted by Jin'er's brother again. Maybe it's just that there is no new game to play for the time being. There are only two of them living at home, and the mother only provides regular subsidies for living expenses when she comes home. But one day, this family with only a small number of people will lose one member again, just because of this game...

Grandpa and Noah sat on a bench in the square, sharing their obsession with mathematics and numbers. Every day, everything around me is getting blurry. Grandpa knew that his memories were gradually passing away, and he could only hold Noah's hand tightly, hoping to make Noah disappear in the end. Sometimes sitting next to Grandpa is his son Ted. Ted doesn't like math and only likes writing and guitar. Throughout his life, he has been waiting for his father to accompany him, encourage him and recognize him. The universe is vast and life is equally long. While we were together, we also said goodbye. When everything in the world disappears, only those who cherish love can embrace the future and survive.

I am 25 years old, studying for a bachelor's degree, and I am bothered by things like time, space, and meaning. I know an incredible amount of stuff, I know a lot of names, years. Hundreds. I know who was the first to climb Mount Everest, I know who directed some of America's lamest soap operas, and I know that when air hits an airplane wing, it creates low pressure on the upper surface of the wing, which is what makes airplanes fly. I know what Aristotle meant. I know that time moves slower on the sun, and I know too much. What should I do with them? Of course I could enter the "Geppardi Just Competition" where the prize is a trip to Greece. Double. But I don't have a girlfriend. I can only go alone. But what was I going to do in Greece? There's no reason to believe I'd be happier there. If only I had a very reliable feeling that everything was going to be okay.

"Letter from a Strange Woman" is one of the most famous novellas by the Austrian novelist and biographer Zweig. It tells the story of a strange woman who, at the last moment of her life, was filled with a lifetime of infatuation and wrote a long, sad and moving letter, revealing her desperate love to a famous writer. The novel uses a woman's most painful experience to describe the depth and devotion of love. This book is a collection of Zweig's novels. In addition to "Letter from a Strange Woman", it also contains 11 other classic novels by Zweig. Some of them are magnificent, some are delicate and gentle, and they all contain deep introspection and sorrow about the times and human nature.

The movie of the same name stars Natalie Portman and Scarlett Johansson. Power and love are always difficult to have at the same time, but truth and death go hand in hand - in the summer of 1524, an unblessed baby girl was born. Her mother was the daughter of the Pauline family, Lady Mary; and her father was His Majesty the King of England, Henry VIII. The illegitimate baby failed to become a bargaining chip in the game, and the king who loved new things and disliked old things soon turned his interest to another Boleyn girl, Anne. Anne was unwilling to be as nameless and insignificant as her sisters. Her huge ambition drove her to embark on the thorny road of picking the fruits of power, but she was by no means the last Boleyn girl to jump into the whirlpool of the palace...

"Columbus, the Age of Discovery and Geographic Discovery" takes Columbus's first to fourth voyages as the main line and tells the grand history of the geographical discoveries of the 15th century. What is the historical background of Columbus's voyage? What setbacks did Columbus experience in realizing his dream of sailing? Why did Queen Isabella II of Castile decide to finance Columbus's voyage? How did Columbus discover the New World of America? What is the realistic logic behind the discovery of the New World in America, the advent of the colonial era, and the genocide of Indians, and how did it promote Spain to become the first global empire? This book will reveal the answers one by one.

A 1v1 sweet pet, both male and female protagonists are clean physically and mentally. "Host, where did you get the pistol? This is a fantasy world of supernatural powers, not a youth movie." "You care about me..." Su Qingyao glanced at the system in disgust. "Host, where did you get the sword? This is a youth campus world, not a spy movie." "You care about me..." Su Qingyao raised her head proudly. The system was angry, "Humph, who isn't a tsundere and cute?!"

Female college student Ling Nuannuan was hit by a sow and died. She overturned on the first day she was bound to the life extension system-- and Bingshan school boy Meng Shen both fell into the book pile of "Postpartum Care of Sows"; In what was supposed to be a beautiful "late night alone in the laboratory", the school girl was so smoked by the snail noodles she cooked that she retched while holding the skeleton specimen; Others rely on affectionate sadomasochism to survive, but she relies on letting the aloof scholar break her defenses. So, here comes the question, how can we transform the school grass into a life-extending power bank and wait online? It's very urgent! Brave and fearless little sun vs cold on the outside and hot on the inside and easily shy Relaxed? Youthful? Happy

Translation Volume (1) includes Zhu Xiang's translations of "Lumanian Folk Songs" (published by Beixin Book Company in 1924) and "Collection of Modern British Novels" (published by Beixin Book Company in 1929). Zhu Xiang's translation focuses on phonology and rhythm, and is characterized by expressing his unique insights into the original work without departing from the artistic conception of the original poem. This volume of translation works fully demonstrates Zhu Xiang's profound translation skills and beautiful translation art.

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"Ivanov" is Anton Chekhov's first dramatic masterpiece to win great fame. The story takes place in a rural village in Central Russia at the end of the 19th century. The protagonist Ivanov encounters bankruptcy. He is deeply in love with his wife Anna, and at the same time there is a young and lovely girl Sasha who also loves him deeply. He had money, land, income, and everything. However, he lost the goal and meaning of life, and finally chose to pass away. In this play, Chekhov created Ivanov, a typical character whose spiritual life is hesitant and depressed: "I can endure everything - pain, neurasthenia, bankruptcy, the death of my wife, premature aging, loneliness - but my contempt for myself makes me unbearable." This book is the fifth volume of the "Master Guide Edition" of "The Complete Works of Chekhov's Dramas", with audio interpretations of famous scenes from Chekhov's plays. I would like to commemorate the 120th anniversary of Chekhov's death - his stage contains all the pain and expectations of this era.

As a girl, Elizabeth, an art history teacher at a British university, was good friends with Daniel, her much older next-door neighbor. The two often discussed issues about art and life. Daniel was an artist when he was young and was a good friend of Christine Keeler, a well-known political scandal model in Britain in the 1950s. Starting from a real political scandal, the novel explores the ceiling problem for female artists in the context of the times, and projects the mental state of Elizabeth and other British people during the Brexit period. The whole book is composed of Daniel's dying dream and Elizabeth's memories of her teenage years, which together interweave a picture of current British social life.

Winter, desolate. The wind is like frost, the ground is like iron, and the water is like stone, so goes the old song. The shortest day, the longest night. Winter brings things into sharp focus. When four people, strangers and family, gather in a 15-bedroom house in Cornwall for Christmas, will there be enough room for them all? Allie Smith casts a warm, wise, joyful, and uncompromising gaze on a post-truth era in a story grounded in history and memory, and deeply rooted in evergreen, art, and love.

I don't remember anyone holding me in their arms. The twenty-one years I have lived in this world have been an empty life. Never experienced a single good thing in my life. Having nothing, accomplishing nothing, feeling nothing... I am a superfluous person who should not have come into this world. However, for me like this, there is someone in the world who is willing to accept me, recognize me, and love me. That's Ayako's mother. Just live your life as you are. The only person who told me this was Ayako's mother. I just want to hug Ayako's mother tightly... I hope Ayako's mother loves me, I hope she hugs me tightly and says to me: "I love you! Child. You are my son... You are my only son, an irreplaceable son... I love you very much, no matter what you have done, good or bad, you are my son..."

The American literary world has been waiting for a century for this godfather-level classic! The movie of the same name directed by Ben Affleck is about to be released! Life is nothing more than wine flowing and bullets flying. Some people lose themselves and some find themselves. Joe Cocklin, the son of a senior police officer, joined the most powerful gang in the area. He doesn't want to live a life defined by others, he wants to create his own rules. His night life slowly unfolded, and he knew that death would eventually come, but before that, he was determined to live well and happily.

"The Sorrows of Young Werther" The young Werther, who is good at poetry and painting, loves nature, is sentimental, and pursues freedom of individuality, falls in love with a girl named Lotte, who is already engaged to someone else. The setback in love made Werther devastated. The conservative and corrupt officialdom, the vulgar and submissive citizens, and the arrogant aristocrats all made him feel suffocated by the despicable society. Finally, he felt that his future was hopeless and committed suicide in order to find relief. "The Sorrows of Young Werther" is an epistolary novel written by Goethe in his early years. The protagonist's unfortunate love and social encounters are not only realistic prototypes, but also blended with the author's painful experience. It shows the reaction of a generation of awakened German youth to a society with unhealthy hierarchical concepts and their strong demand for individual liberation.

Translated classics of Russian and Soviet literature (38 volumes in total), this series also includes "The Insulted and Injured", "The Night Before", "Red Love", "How Steel Was Tempered", "The Insulted and Injured", etc. This excellent novel by Gorky takes as a clue how three generations of the Artamonov family run their business, showing the entire process of Russian small business owners from diligent entrepreneurship to decadence and decline. The novel spans the time span from the abolition of serfdom in 1861 to the October Revolution in 1917, involving all kinds of characters and all aspects of social life. It profoundly and truly reveals a broad historical picture. Many characters in the book are vividly portrayed, and the description of their fate is shocking and thought-provoking. Therefore, the book has high literary value and strong readability.

"Childhood Sweethearts" is a collection of works by Higuchi Kazuyo, an outstanding Japanese female writer in the 19th century. It selects a total of 8 masterpieces including the novels "Childhood Sweethearts", "New Year's Eve", "Sutra", "Fork in the Road" and essays "Cuckoo" and "Raindrops on the Oar". Higuchi Kazuyo lives in a corner of Tokyo, observing the world with a calm eye, writing about the ordinary daily lives of ordinary people, and discovering the way and strength of their tenacious life, and also addressing the tired daily lives of the world with a warm and compassionate heart. She comes from the market and writes about the market. She uses her rise in adversity to write about the original life and human emotions of small people in the great era, expressing her desire for light and warmth in the decline of the world. Higuchi Ichiyo's works achieve a clever balance between lyricism and narrative with his unique quasi-classical style, thus combining the charm of classical literature with the expressive power of modern literature.

"Fable" is Faulkner's painstaking work in his later years. It subverted Faulkner's previous "Yoknapatawpha lineage". While it won the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, it also caused huge controversy. The story takes place in Verdun at the end of World War I, and spans a week. A regiment of the French army launched a mutiny and openly disobeyed the order to attack the German army. At the same time, the German soldiers also stopped attacking, and the battlefield that had been noisy for four years temporarily returned to calm. The commanders of the allied forces of France, Britain, and the United States were greatly shocked. They could not tolerate this kind of calm, and ordered the 3,000 soldiers of the regiment to be taken to the Allied headquarters and sentenced to death... As Faulkner said: "If Jesus comes again in 1914-1915, he will be crucified on the cross again." Faulkner used the story of Jesus' crucifixion to express his deep thoughts on human nature and war.

"The Plague" and "The Stranger" (1942) selected in this book are Camus's most important masterpieces, and both are listed as masterpieces of modern world literature. The background of "The Plague" is a commercial city in the Mediterranean region of North Africa. In the novel, Camus used meticulous writing to describe the loneliness, fear, anxiety, pain, struggle and struggle of people in this isolated city where the plague broke out. "The Outsider" describes the process of a young man named Mossot from the time he buried his mother to the time he was sentenced to death after being imprisoned for causing death in self-defense. The novel describes Mossot's inner world in a calm and monotonous language.

Germinal is the first "social history" novel about miners. The novel is divided into seven parts. The first four parts are introduction, beginning, development, and depth. They repeatedly explain the miserable working and living conditions of the miners, and pave the way for the emergence, expansion, and rise of the miners' resistance. The fifth part is the climax of the book. The resentment accumulated by the miners for generations is finally uncontrollable, and the strike is brewing and matures and breaks out naturally. The sixth and seventh parts write about the results of the strike, the failure and the ending.

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A difficult love, a difficult life. Calvino uses the difficulties of "love" and "life" as the main thread, and lightly captures the images of ordinary people's lives: the difficulty of spending a night cramped in the second-class carriage for the lover; the difficulty of not being able to show off the affair after a night of love; the difficulty of the couple who are forced to live apart from each other day and night. ; The difficulty of wearing glasses to discover a new world but unable to see clearly because the vision is too clear; the difficulty of living in a city shrouded in smoke and with no hope of purification... These difficulties constitute the constants of human life, linking the path of contemplation of the present world, as well as some moments of epiphany.

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Dazai Osamu's true masterpiece! "The most beautiful commemorative novel" in Osamu Dazai's heart! Recognized by millions of readers! Translator Yang Wei of the phenomenal translation "Human Disqualification" has dedicated his heart to the translation! The novel is set against the background of the chaos in post-war Japan. It unfolds through the first-person narration of Kazuko and the diary and suicide note of her brother Naoji. It depicts the setting sun-like life of the descendants of aristocrats with their social status declining day by day. It places the beauty of the future on the protagonist, shining a gleam of light amidst the decadence.

"The Golden Pavilion" is based on the true incident in 1950 when monk Lin Yangxian set fire to the Golden Pavilion. Mizoguchi, a young man who was born with a stutter and was obsessed with the beauty of the Kinkakuji Temple, came to the Kinkakuji Temple to become a monk with the dream of inheriting the position of abbot of the Kinkakuji Temple and owning the Kinkaku Temple. After confirming that he could not achieve his wish, he fantasized about dying with the Kinkakuji in an enemy bombing. The end of the war frustrated his wish. In despair, he decided to find an opportunity to burn the Golden Temple to the ground. By burning down the Golden Temple, Mizoguchi eliminated his own mental demons, his suppressed humanity was released, his vision shackles by phantoms was also expanded, and destruction became the path to rebirth.

"The Scholars" is a novel with intellectuals as the main description object, and it is also a typical satirical novel. It describes some images of Confucian scholars who were deeply poisoned by the eight-part imperial examination system. For example, it is written that Zhou Jin and Fan Jin spent their entire lives trying to pass the examination, and even when their beards turned gray, they still failed to pass the examination. Although life was extremely difficult, he still couldn't forget the imperial examination. Zhou Jin passed by an examination room and went in to watch. He was touched by a lifetime of bitterness and pain. He burst into tears and was so sad that he could not help but feel miserable. Later, with the help of some small businessmen, he took the exam and won the sympathy of the examiner, and things turned around. When he passed the exam, those who had ridiculed him in the past came to flatter him and praised him as the most learned person. Another example is Fan Jin. Before he passed the imperial examination, his family was so poor that he had no rice to cook with, so he went to the market to sell an old hen. When he learned that he had won the election, he was so happy that he became crazy. Fortunately, his father-in-law, Hu Tuhu, slapped him and he regained consciousness. At this time, the local squires and other prominent people all looked at him with admiration. Some gave him houses and some gave him property. Fan Jin's life immediately changed... And so on, which reflected the corruption of the secular customs at that time. On the one hand, it truly reveals the process and reasons for the corruption of human nature, thereby deeply criticizing and ridiculing the corruption of officialdom at that time, the shortcomings of imperial examinations, and the hypocrisy of ethics; on the other hand, it passionately praises the protection of human nature by a few characters by insisting on themselves, thus embodying the author's ideals.

"Tongyan to Warn the World" is a collection of story-telling novels written by Feng Menglong in the late Ming Dynasty. Together with "Mingyan to Yushi" and "Eternal Words to Awaken the World", they are collectively known as "Three Words". It is processed and edited from the original manuscripts of folk speakers in the Song and Yuan Dynasties. It may describe the marriage and destiny of young men and women, or reveal people's pursuit of fame and fortune and their understanding of life, or depict strange things, injustices and strange worlds in the world. It shows the ideological outlook, hobbies, life scenes, etc. Of the citizen class at that time, and builds its own unique artistic world. Compared with the early "Huaben", "Jingshi Tongyan" has undergone great changes and developments in terms of language, style and structure. It provides us with rich and detailed written materials for understanding and studying the society of the Song and Yuan Dynasties, and also made popular literature reach a level of social recognition. It is the pinnacle of ancient vernacular short stories.

"The Rich Gate", "Beijing Smoke and Clouds" and "The Wind and Crane" are collectively called "Lin Yutang's Trilogy". This novel, published in 1953, mainly tells the story of the love story between two Xi'an natives, journalist Li Fei and famous lady Du Rou'an, who crossed the boundaries of their family background. The novel not only describes the cultural landscape and turbulent current situation of the ancient city of Xi'an in the 1930s, but also follows the experiences of the two protagonists. It also spends a lot of words describing the vast customs of Western Xinjiang, as well as the legendary stories that happened in that land of mixed races and constant struggles, and reveals the author's humanitarian feelings of equality and fraternity everywhere.

This political fantasy novel was written in 1907. Through the perspective of a wealthy lady who joined the revolution, the author fictionalized the changes in social development at that time and accurately predicted the rise of the capitalist centralized system. Although the book was published 100 years ago, it still has a warning and thought-provoking effect on today's society.

"Window Light" is Nanae Aoyama's debut novel. This work won the 42nd Japan Literary Award, known as the "cradle of the Akutagawa Prize". By describing a female college student who dropped out of school and worked in a cafe, she peered into a man's room opposite, and then went out on the street every night to peek into the lives of ordinary people. It delicately depicts the psychological world of a young woman who cannot handle real life well. "Mrs. Murasaki's Paris" describes an aunt who is a cleaning lady in an office building. When she feels uncomfortable, she thinks about the streets of Paris, such as the Eiffel Tower, the Arc de Triomphe seen from the Eiffel Tower, etc., And at the same time imagines herself as a Frenchman born in Paris.

The 36 articles in this book discuss 31 classic writers and their works. It is the best introductory book into the world of classics. Here, Calvino opens up his eclectic and eclectic secret bookshelf to us and talks about his ideal book collection. With passion and wisdom, Calvino makes literary works present various charms in front of readers. Free of academic jargon and journalistic glibness, erudition rather than showmanship, and full of genuine passion for literature. Because of this, this book has moved thousands of readers around the world, whether they are reading it for the first time or re-reading it in a new way.

"The Complete Collection of Curiosities of the Universe" is the first time that all the fascinating stories about the universe told by Calvino since 1964 are collected in the same book. "The Complete Collection of Curiosities of the Universe" also plays an interesting role in making concepts that are difficult in modern science easy and visible, thereby establishing a literary genre that is closer to the myth of the origin of the universe than to science fiction. Calvino said that "The Complete Curiosities of the Universe" is not a science fiction story, that is to say, it is not a traditional science fiction story in the style of Jules Verne and H. G. Wells - although I appreciate it very much. Behind the cosmic curiosities lie more Leopardi, comic strips of Popeye, paintings of Samuel Beckett, Giordano Bruno, Lewis Carroll, poker aces, and sometimes engravings of Randelphi, Immanuel Kant, Borges, Granville.

Calvino agreed that this book is "an autobiography written in the third person" and admitted that "any experience of Palomar is my experience." The protagonist Palomar in the novel is very imaginative and speculative. He is obsessed with detailed observation of objective objects and their states, such as the waves of the sea, the shape of geckos, the moon, stars, and grass. He constantly asked himself various questions, such as sexual desire, death, people's situation in society, etc., And explored the relationship between people and the universe, the disorder and order of the world, and the language communication between people. Here, Calvino, incarnated as Palomar, conceals his final contemplation of the world in the narrative, penetrating the entire experience of life. Calvino passed away one year after the novel was published. What is significant is that the last chapter of "Palomar" is entirely devoted to the protagonist's meditation on death.

In this autobiographical meditation, Calvino turned to his past: the awkward childhood of traveling with his father, the lifelong love affair with the cinema, the memories of the anti-fascist war, the reflections on language, the perception of kitchen trash cans, and even the shape of the entire world. His reflections on the nature of memory are intelligent, fascinating, and brimming with a unique alchemical brilliance. The first "Road to St. John" is Calvino's detailed memories and descriptions of his hometown city of San Remo, showing the natural and cultural scenes of San Remo, as well as his early life experiences. "Autobiography of a Spectator" is actually about the author himself, mainly about his experience of secretly running away from home to watch movies in the years from 1936 to the outbreak of the war. It records the memories left in his mind by the movies from various countries screened in Italy at that time, as well as the impact of movies, mainly American movies, on the lives of Italians at that time. The second half of this article mainly writes about the perception of the works of the outstanding Italian director Fellini. You can explore the influence of film on his creations in this article. "Memories of a War" is Calvino's recollection of a war he participated in as a guerrilla after the war. The article didn't talk much about the details of the war, only the little things that the war left in his memory. This kind of memory actually has the nature of creative practice. "The Lovely Trash Can" starts from the trash can in the kitchen when the author lived in Paris, covering its use, location, emptying time, etc. It actually describes his life in Paris and can be regarded as Calvino's memories of that period of life. "In the Dark" is a possibly unfinished note. If asked about his understanding of the world and the universe, the author's understanding of concepts such as elements, matter, breadth, and thickness of the world is more like a worldview within the scope of philosophy. This article is of some help in understanding Calvino's cosmology and "The Curiosities of the Universe".

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How are masters developed? "When I think back to my childhood, there is no red or green in front of my eyes, just gray and yellow." This set the tone for Mr. Ji Xianlin's life in his boyhood. However, his life and study experience during this period had an extremely profound impact on him, which can be seen from the meticulousness of his memories, down to every plant, tree, brick and tile, as well as the sincerity of his feelings. Especially those who lost their parents at a young age, were dependent on others, and traveled around... These special experiences have had a lifelong impact and are worthy of every sensitive heart to appreciate. From the gray childhood life and early experiences described by Ji Xianlin, we can trace his life footsteps and show his soft and childlike side besides his academic image.

When we first met, I was sleeping soundly, and the end of my nose felt itchy in my sleep, as if someone was breathing into my cheek. I panicked, reflexively opened my eyes, and jumped up from the chair. I didn't want my foot to slip and fall down badly. However, there was nothing in front of me... At that time, I didn't know that the instigator, a certain man, was suppressing laughter to the point of internal injury. When we met again, there was a "ghost noise" going on at home in the middle of the night, and various fantasy scenes were staged one after another. I was stunned for a long time before I realized what was happening. I screamed and ran out the door. Little did they know, a certain man in the family was watching me helplessly and amusedly, being scared to the point of pissing my pants off. Finally, a certain man opened up a magical fantasy world for me. We didn't fall in love at first sight, but it felt like we'd known each other for centuries. He laughed at my timidity and was so frightened that I enslaved him to be my "exclusive manservant."

In Zhenshuihe Town, there is a small river flowing with touching stories. The story of the innocent girl Su Xiaohe and the personality girl in Zhenshuihe Town is recorded there. After Su Xiaohe woke up one morning, he found that he had lost his memory and was far away from Zhenshuihe Town. He was also arranged to study in an aristocratic school by a mysterious rich man. Later, she inexplicably participated in a singing competition and received a heavy package from the record company. Cinderella seemed to fly up a branch and become a phoenix overnight. But Shi Lie met a prince on the Internet who was even more arrogant than the prince, and fell into a complicated relationship...

One day I felt a deep longing, an urgent need to be close to the earth. So, I decided to garden every day. After three seasons of spring, summer, autumn and winter, I have been tending flowers and plants in the garden I call my secret garden for three years. Stopping in a garden with blooming flowers made me religious again. In the book in front of me, some words are prayers, confessions, and confessions of love for the earth and nature. The earth is not a dead, lifeless, silent being, but a living being, a living organism. Even stones are alive. Today we are exploiting it brutally, ravaging it, and thus destroying it completely. The earth asks us to take care of it and treat it well. "Care" has the same etymological origin as "beauty". If you love it, you must praise it. The texts in this volume are all hymns, praising the earth.

The restaurant waiter Su Shu was originally a young director. He was hit hard when he encountered financial difficulties during the filming of his debut film. He ran from Tokyo to Zushi Beach to recover from his injuries. By chance, he met the 45-year-old single printmaker Saki Shiko, who involuntarily fell in love with Soshu. Su Shu wanted to shoot a documentary about Prince Saki, and during the filming process, the two fell in love. Falling in love inspired Prince Saki as a printmaker to create the "White Drift Series". Soki also returned to the film industry under the encouragement and guidance of Prince Saki. The two people are each other's salvation, and their connected souls enable them to overcome age barriers and achieve each other's success.