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This book contains 17 stories written by Akutagawa Ryunosuke with Chinese elements as the background. It not only restores the famous historical allusion of the Chu-Han struggle for hegemony, but also uniquely adapts it based on strange people and strange events in the late Qing Dynasty. It has a unique perspective and far-reaching ideas, and profoundly presents the literary giant's exploration and thinking of human nature. This is China in the eyes of Ryunosuke Akutagawa, and the words reveal a Japanese literary giant's love and admiration for Sinology.

The Akutagawa Ryunosuke's works series collects the novels, essays, reviews, travel notes, notes, poems, etc. Written by the Japanese writer Akutagawa Ryunosuke in his short twelve-year creative career. Based on the eight volumes of "The Complete Works of Akutagawa Ryunosuke" published by Japan's Chikuma Shobo, it completely presents the creative career of Akutagawa Ryunosuke. This volume "Rashomon: Hell Transformation" contains nearly 30 excellent novels by Akutagawa Ryunosuke. Among them, "Rashomon" completely presents a moral "debate of good and evil"; "Hell Change" tells the story of a human tragedy caused under the rule of a powerful force, calmly observing the Japanese society at that time where "others are hell".

Published in a collection with reference to the title and contents of the Japanese first edition! A classic work by Ryunosuke Akutagawa, the literary genius and king of short stories! A sharp analysis of the good and evil of human nature, a new interpretation of historical allusions, the struggle of emotional desires, and a detached philosophy of life... This book collects 15 short stories and short stories, including "The Tobacco Pipe", "Tobacco and the Devil", "Luck", "Drama Samadhi", "Yangliang Dream", "Hero's Instrument" and other early works by Akutagawa Ryunosuke. The devil's failure is also a success from another perspective. Human beings think they have defeated temptation, but they may actually have failed. --"Tobacco and the Devil"; In the dream, all sins completely disappear before the eyes. But only human sadness - the great human sadness, like the moonlight that fills the sky, still exists alone and cruelly... - "Theft"

"Hell Change" collects many short stories by Japanese writer Ryunosuke Akutagawa, represented by "Hell Change", which expresses the life destiny of a lonely person who pursues art for art's sake, fully displaying the lonely core and death fantasy in Akutagawa's works. From a unique narrative perspective, Akutagawa coldly satirizes the modern social psychology of "others are hell" and is thought-provoking.

Every chapter writes about ghosts and monsters, and every sentence cuts into people's hearts! In the "Hell Transformation" screen painted by the painter Yoshihide, there are blazing flames everywhere, and a few wisps of black smoke rising like splashes of ink. None of the sinners who are burned by the fire of karma and writhing in pain look like those in the common pictures of hell. The most shocking thing among them is the woman wearing gorgeous clothes and screaming in the fire... At first glance, it feels like falling into hell! In order to paint this perfect screen, what kind of tragic hell did Yoshihide create? This book, starting with "Hell Transformation", selects 18 ghostly ghost stories and fables short stories by Akutagawa. It specially includes 8 rarely translated works such as "The Madonna in Black", "Strange Stories" and "Two Letters" which are dark and strange!

This book is the last volume of the complete set. It contains the last published works of Akutagawa Ryunosuke and his unpublished posthumous works. There are thirty-two short stories in total, most of which are later masterpieces of Ryunosuke Akutagawa, such as "The Ten Yuan Bill", "The Half Life of Oshimaji Shinsuke", "Horse Legs", "Niti", "Hunan Fan", "Spring Night", "The Ghost Book" and "Xuankaku Sanfang". "Yoyouso", "Kappa", "Kosenya", "A Fool's Life", etc., The contents include: "A Fool's Life" is a posthumous autobiography of Akutagawa Ryunosuke, describing his life in fifty-one fragments; in "The Ghost Book", Akutagawa Ryunosuke analyzes his family relationships and expresses his complex emotions towards his parents and adoptive parents; etc. In these autobiographical short stories, Ryunosuke Akutagawa analyzes his life and explains his views on art and life.

This book contains a total of 13 short stories and short stories by Akutagawa Ryunosuke. "Rashomon" uses a weather-proof layout to push people to the limit of life and death choices, thus showing the inescapability of "evil" and conveying for the first time the author's understanding of people, his helplessness and despair.

This manuscript is a collection of short stories by the famous modern literary writer Akutagawa Ryunosuke. It is the sixth of his eight short story collections published from 1917 to 1927. It contains a total of 23 short stories by Akutagawa Ryunosuke, including "Adventures", "Mother", "In the Bamboo Forest", "Repaying a Kindness", etc. These works have their own characteristics in terms of subject matter, content and artistic conception. Ryunosuke Akutagawa is a well-known Japanese novelist and a representative writer of the new school of thought. His creations have both romanticism and realism tendencies. His works are widely known and have wide influence. They are well-known in China and have literary value. His literary creation has influenced a large number of domestic writers including Lu Xun and is a treasure in the field of short stories.

This manuscript is a collection of short stories by the famous modern literary writer Akutagawa Ryunosuke. It is the fifth of his eight short story collections published from 1917 to 1927. It contains a total of 18 short stories by Akutagawa Ryunosuke, including "Aryu and the Children", "Autumn", "Omo no Shinichi", "Dance", etc. These works have their own characteristics in terms of subject matter, content and artistic conception. Ryunosuke Akutagawa is a well-known Japanese novelist and a representative writer of the new school of thought. His creations have both romanticism and realism tendencies. His works are widely known and have wide influence. They are well-known in China and have literary value. His literary creation has influenced a large number of domestic writers including Lu Xun and is a treasure in the field of short stories.

The original title of "Dulan Funny Stories" is "Hundred Funny Stories", which is a collection of short stories in the style of "The Decameron". The author pretends that this is a manuscript preserved in the monastery of Touraine and compiled and published specifically for the entertainment of the Pantagruelists. In fact, these stories are all written by Balzac, but they only use the background and themes from the fourteenth to sixteenth centuries, imitating the language of the sixteenth century and Rabelais's bold, straightforward, lively and vivid writing style.

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There are houses in certain provincial cities that look like the gloomiest monasteries, the most desolate moors, the most desolate ruins, which makes people unhappy. Perhaps this kind of house has a little bit of the silence of the monastery, the monotony of the wilderness, and the decay of the ruins. The daily life inside is so quiet. If it weren't for the sound of strange footsteps on the street, a man with a face like a monk would suddenly poke out of the window and remain motionless, staring at the strangers with his dim and cold eyes, foreign guests might regard those houses as empty houses without anyone living in them.

There is no book more sad or lonely than this! "The Outsider" is one of Camus' famous and representative novels. It can be called one of the most famous novels with epoch-making significance in the entire Western literary world in the 20th century. "The Outsider" has thus become one of the most classic characters and one of the most important keywords in Western literature and philosophy. It has become an image representation of the predicament of modern people's lives: each of us is an "outsider."

This book is a famous work by French writer Camus. It is divided into two parts: the first part describes what happened to the protagonist Meursault three days after his mother died. Not only did he not show any pain for his mother's death, he even seemed indifferent; one day because of the bright sun, he impulsively shot and killed an Arab. The second part is about Meursault being arrested, tried and sentenced to death. In the court, the examining judge, the instructing priest, the prosecutor and the defense lawyer did not waste much time talking about the case itself. Instead, they repeatedly criticized his soul and personality. However, he always felt innocent and the whole process was absurd. Camus ingeniously depicted the prejudices of the human heart, the nihility of life, and the absurdity of society. The "outsider" has thus become one of the most classic characters and one of the most important keywords in Western literature and philosophy.

"The Stranger" is Camus' famous work, a masterpiece of existential literature, and a representative work of absurd novels. The novel tells the story of an ordinary young clerk who lives numbly in aimless inertia. One day he goes to the beach for vacation, gets involved in a conflict and commits a murder. Because "he did not shed tears at his mother's funeral", he is sentenced to death by the court in the name of "the French people". The novel elaborates on an important proposition of existentialism: the absurdity and strangeness of human society lead to individual despair and emptiness. "The Plague" is one of Camus' important masterpieces. By describing the outbreak of plague in a city called Oran in North Africa, the story of a large number of people represented by the protagonist Dr. Rieux struggling to face the plague. It vividly demonstrates the great liberal humanitarian spirit of those who dare to face the bleak life and possess the fearless spirit of "knowing that it is impossible to do it". They rise up against the absurd and insist on truth and justice in despair.

"Happy Death": Mersault, a small employee in the company, does boring work day after day and lives an unchanging life. He is lonely, nihilistic, and has no interest in the entire world. After orchestrating a murder, he gained vast wealth and was able to escape his eight-hour day job, becoming rich and free. Start traveling and traveling around... Can you be happy if you have money? Can you be happy if you have time? Can you be happy with a lover and love? How can we truly feel self-satisfaction and happiness? Meursault kept thinking about these issues during his journey and explored the joy of living... "The Outsider": Meursault, a small company clerk, was accused by the court of murder, but was eventually sentenced to death because he "did not cry when his mother was buried." In our society, anyone who does not cry at his mother's funeral is liable to death. --Camus

"The Plague" tells the story of a small city in North Africa called Oran. The plague suddenly struck, claiming hundreds of lives, and changed the entire city's administrative management, social order, and moral conscience. A large number of people, represented by the protagonist Dr. Rieux, fought hard in the face of the plague, showing the true brave man still resisted in the midst of absurdity, and the liberal humanitarian spirit of insisting on truth and justice in despair. When the city's residents shifted from initial indifference to self-preservation to a unified fight against the plague, the plague suddenly disappeared. In this novel, the plague that suddenly rages and disappears is a specific disaster and an absurd symbol with multiple interpretation spaces. "The Plague" aims to restore the original face of truth in the absurd real world, return heroism to its due secondary status, reveal the theme of resistance to absurdity, and is an important work that embodies Camus' absurd philosophy. "The Plague" won the French Criticism Prize in 1947 and has been a best-seller for many years.

The young American writer Scripps O'Neill's wives and daughters ran away one after another. He left home on a snowy night to find a job. In a small restaurant, he met Diana, a middle-aged waitress and British literature-loving waitress. The two hit it off and got married in a flash, and he became a clerk at a water pump factory in the city. Unexpectedly, Mandy, the waitress who replaced Diana in the small restaurant, had a lot of literary knowledge and was eloquent, which fascinated Scripps. Yogi Johnson, a worker in the same factory as Scripps, had an "affair" in Paris when he was participating in World War I. As a result, he fell into the trap and never wanted to find a woman again. However, an Indian woman broke into a small restaurant and was driven away. On the street Yogi, who was wandering in confusion, followed her, took off her clothes one by one, and walked side by side into the night with her... At the turn of winter and spring, a series of strange things happened in the northern mountain town of Michigan, which formed the interesting core plot of Hemingway's early novella "Spring Tide".

Lin Shu, a famous translator in the Republic of China, is known as the founder of modern Chinese literary circles. His translations use ancient Chinese, and all of them adopt the form of joint translation, that is, with the cooperation of other people's oral translation, "the sound has stopped when the ears are followed by the hand." With his excellent classical literacy, skillful expression skills and fluent writing style, he has formed a unique style, which is favored by Qian Zhongshu, Lu Xun, Zhou Zuoren and others, and is rated as better than the original work. This article is a legendary novel, translated today by David Copperfield. It tells the story of the protagonist's life from childhood to middle age. Taking the birth of "I" as the source, the sincerity and darkness of friends, the childishness and impulsiveness of love, the sweetness and triviality of marriage, and the conflicts and harmony of family members are gathered into a stream that slowly flows on the river bed of fate and eventually merges into the tolerant and magnificent sea.

Si Jiong in "Mushroom Circle" has gone from an era of political absurdity to the present, experienced many changes in personnel, and faced the vagaries of the times with a pure power of survival. The novel follows Alai's consistent observation of "people" in Tibetan areas, with a very poetic writing style, blending reality into ethereal time, embracing the history of a nation with ordinary life, and revealing Alai's "rooted love" for people in Tibetan areas.

Maugham's father was a lawyer who worked at the British Embassy in France. Maugham lost his mother at the age of eight and his father at the age of ten. He was later sent back to England to be raised by his uncle who was a pastor. With books as his companion, he developed a lonely and melancholy temperament in his character. Later, he studied at the Royal College of Canterbury. He was discriminated against because of his stuttering defect, which left a psychological shadow. When he was in college, he studied medicine, but gradually developed a strong interest in literature. Based on what he saw and heard while working as a trainee doctor in the slums of London, he wrote his first novel "Lisa of Lambeth", which received good reviews and embarked on the path of literary creation. While he was writing, he traveled around the world to collect materials for writing, but the novels he initially wrote did not cause much response until "The Shackles of Humanity" was fully recognized. He wrote many plays, among which "Lady Frederic" was finally staged after being rejected by seventeen theater troupes. It was a great success and started his first step towards great fame and wealth.

"Colomba" tells the story of the Gaussian islanders' custom of "collecting blood debts" of an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth, interspersed with a love story. The article is lively, lively and full of laughter, which contrasts well with the original sentiment and bloody smell of the story.

"I don't want to be entangled with others, especially I don't want to listen to others' orders; what I want is freedom, to do whatever I want..." This is a kind of strange and wild beauty, this is a face that will surprise you when you first see it, but you will never forget it. Her eyes, in particular, had an expression both sensual and fierce that I had never seen in anyone else's eyes since. --"Carmen" Mérimée's novel creations are few but precise, short and beautiful. The achievements of his short stories alone are enough to occupy a place among the world's short story writers. "Matteo Falcone", "Etruscan Vase", "Venus of Il", "Colomba" and "Carmen" translated in this book are undoubtedly the most wonderful and representative ones.

James Joyce (1882-1941), Irish writer and poet. Born in Dublin on February 2, 1882 and died in Zurich, Switzerland on January 13, 1941. He is the originator of stream-of-consciousness literature, and his novel "Ulysses" has become a representative work of stream-of-consciousness literature and one of the greatest novels of the twentieth century. He lived a wandering life, traveling to Trieste, Rome, Paris and other places, mostly making a living by teaching English and writing articles for newspapers and magazines. He also suffered from eye diseases and was almost completely blind in his later years. But he remained committed to literature and wrote diligently, eventually becoming a great master. "Dublins" is James Joyce's prestigious short story collection, which can be regarded as the most famous short story collection in the entire West in the 20th century.

"Ulysses" was first serialized in the American magazine "The Little Review" from 1918 until it ended in 1920. It was later published as a full book. It was subsequently recognized as "one of the most important literary works in modern literature". The so-called "Ulysses" is Homer's "Odyssey". The book has nearly 270,000 words (English) and uses 30,030 vocabulary words. As soon as it was published, it aroused great curiosity. Because the author uses "stream of consciousness", a popular psychological research technique in the early 20th century, and carefully considers the layout, the book uses many distinctive methods such as puns, metaphors, and humor. It is now recognized as "the most remarkable novel". In 1998, the Modern Library of America listed this novel among the "Best Novels in the English-speaking World of the 20th Century" and ranked it at the top of the list, which shows how much influence this novel had on 20th century literature.

Dedicated to every young man who never compromises! A must-select translation of domestic portraits, the well-known translator Huang Yisi has newly revised 606 parts of the text. Oxford University Press introductory edition (with an introductory page of a comprehensive analysis of Joyce by an Oxford University professor). Selected into the Top 3 of Random House's "100 Novels of the 20th Century". The pioneering work of stream-of-consciousness novels, it is a century classic praised by Yeats, Woolf, Beckett and other masters. Prequel to "Ulysses". Stephen, a young artist born in Dublin, has been sensitive and thoughtful since he was a child. In his childhood, he was ignorant, but he actively studied but was beaten; in his youth, he was impulsive and enthusiastic, but he strayed into the path of desire; in his youth, he finally became mature and rational, but in the end he chose to live in exile. He said: "Ah, life! I am ready to come into contact with the reality of experience for the millionth time."

A boy who has a crush on the girl next door, but doesn't know how to say it and is suffering; a girl who has found her ideal partner and longs for a new life, but lacks the courage to change her current situation; a man who is already in his thirties but has accomplished nothing and faces a boring job and a busy family all day long; 15 stories, 15 kinds of deep loneliness. From boyhood, youth, adulthood to old age, this book illuminates the loneliness that has nowhere to go at all stages of life. No matter who you are, how old you are, or where you are, you can find yourself in it.

"Dublins" is James Joyce's prestigious short story collection, which can be regarded as the most famous short story collection in the entire West in the 20th century. Published in 1914, it was set in Dublin in the 1920s and 1930s. It captures a cross-section of the lives of the middle and lower class people, a group of people at a moment, and fifteen stories gathered together. It is like an impressionistic painting, with concise brushwork and scattered pieces. It emerges a desolate world, distant, cold, but exquisite, which is the best.

A classic work of stream of consciousness in the history of literature, a great self-portrait of an artist. More than 30 original illustrations perfectly set off the scenes. This book is a must-read for Qiao fans around the world. This book is the first novel written by Joyce using the stream of consciousness technique, and it is also one of the earliest and most successful stream of consciousness novels in the history of world literature. The novel has a strong autobiographical flavor and describes how Stephen, a young boy from Dublin, escapes the oppression and bullying of boarding school and talks about beauty and imagination on this poor island even abandoned by God, in an attempt to seek and discover a way of life or art in which the human spirit can be expressed freely without hindrance. He broke out of his cocoon and became Stephen, a young artist. His painful process of trying to get rid of the various influences that hindered his development - family constraints, religious traditions and narrow nationalistic sentiments, to pursue the true meaning of art and beauty, is actually a portrayal of the young Joyce's life and creative career from awakening to maturity. Joyce's subsequent masterpieces "Ulysses" and "Finnegans Wake" can be regarded as the sequel to "Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man".

In the first chapter of the novel, the young protagonist Stephen appears, but he cannot describe his world with complex vocabulary. He does not care about the causal relationship of the world around him, so the world in front of him presents a chaotic and unorganized situation during his experience. A few years later, Stephen became obsessed with religion. At this time, his thinking ability seemed to have greatly improved, and he was able to think about the world with clearer logical thinking and a more adult way of thinking.

"The Outsider" is one of Camus' famous and representative novels. It can be called one of the most epoch-making and famous novels in the entire Western literary world in the 20th century. "The Outsider" has thus become one of the most classic characters and one of the most important keywords in Western literature and philosophy.

David Copperfield (1850) is a semi-autobiographical novel that surpasses all other Dickens works. Through the unfortunate experience of an orphan, it paints a broad and colorful social picture, exposing the exploitation of working people by the bourgeoisie, the dark corruption of the judiciary, and the oppression of the people by the parliament. The novel still ends with everything being successful, showing the author's consistent thoughts.

Although "Sense and Sensibility" is Jane Austen's first novel, her writing skills are already quite proficient. Every plot in the story has been ingeniously conceived by the author. The superficial causal relationship and the underlying reasons hidden behind the scenes are all natural and reasonable. The heroine makes reasonable speculations and judgments based on superficial phenomena. Although careful readers may have various doubts from time to time, their thoughts will naturally develop with good observations. When the final result appears, it will be completely different from the superficial phenomena, resulting in an unexpected comedy effect. If you read it over again, you will find that the factors that lead to the inevitable result have already been seen between the lines. The plot of the novel revolves around the mate selection activities of the two heroines, focusing on revealing the bad habit of using marriage as a way for women to seek economic security and improve their economic status in the British social trends at that time, and the ugly fashion of focusing on family status and ignoring women's feelings and human rights. The heroines in the novel all pursue equal communication and exchange of thoughts and feelings with men, demand equal rights in social status, and insist on independent observation, analysis, and freedom to choose men. In Britain at the time, this was almost a cry of defiance.

This book is about a musical genius's struggle with himself, art and society, tracing the evolution of a German musician through many artistic struggles. The protagonist, John-Christophe, is an extremely sincere artist with a contradictory and uncoordinated character, full of passion for life but misunderstood by a hostile world. Edmund Coss called this book the noblest novel of the 20th century. This book is the masterpiece of the famous French writer Romain Rolland, for which he won the Nobel Prize for Literature.

The young writer Tanabe returned to his hometown of Sapporo and once again saw the photos and paintings of Junko, his first love. Twenty years ago, eighteen-year-old Junko chose the most brutal and poignant way to commit suicide and fell in the ice and snow of Lake Akan; twenty years later, Tanabe, still lingering on his first love, determined to find out the truth about Junko's death. Why did she end her life in her most beautiful years? Who is her favorite person? After Tanabe visited several people who had a close relationship with Junko one by one, he gradually restored the true appearance of the girl hidden under the aura of the talented painter...

When her father died two months after passing the teaching qualification exam, Anne Ernault used this as an opportunity to tell the story of one man's life. Born at the turn of the century, he had to leave school early and worked first as a farmer, then in a factory, and later as the owner of a small grocery store in Normandy until his death in 1967. He exercised self-restraint, worked hard, was cautious in his words and deeds, and tried hard to maintain his position as a man in society, but he could never get rid of the fear of slipping back to the lower class. The author uses cold observation to reveal the shame that plagued her father throughout his life, as well as the alienation and pain between father and daughter caused by class restrictions. This biography of a father is also the story of an intellectual's daughter's betrayal-of her parents, her upbringing, the schism between affection and shame, between belonging and alienation.

The young Mizoguchi was born with a stammer. He was withdrawn since childhood and loved the Golden Temple. After his father's death, he followed his last wish and became a monk at the Kinkakuji Temple. During the war, he imagined that the Golden Temple would be destroyed by air raids, but the war never affected Kyoto. At school, he befriended Kashiwagi, who was lustful and had a disabled foot. After successive encounters with the death of his friend Tsurukawa and the indecency of the abbot, he finally burned the Golden Pavilion to the ground on a rainy night. Perhaps, there is a golden pavilion in everyone's heart. It contains desperately desired dreams and obsessions. These dreams and obsessions may also be a kind of beauty. Because I yearn for beauty, I want to destroy it.

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A deck of tarot cards that can predict the future! A transshipment book that can be read in infinite reincarnations! A magical and peerless book! Pavic depicts the experiences of two Serbian families who worked for Napoleonic France and anti-Napoleonic Austria respectively, representing Serbia's choice between the two forces of East and West. However, no matter which side they fight for, they are not fighting for the future of Serbia, but for things that have nothing to do with their own nation. At the same time as the Napoleonic Wars, Serbia's revolution to break away from Turkish rule was also in progress. This major event was consciously ignored by the author and was almost never mentioned in the book. This highlights the characters' indifference to their own nation and the absurdity of the war. It does not have an ending in the traditional sense. Everyone in the book is driven by the wheel of fate. While struggling and resisting, they have to accept the guidance of fate.

Woolf's masterpiece, a fictional biography of a great androgynous soul, a feminist classic, and a shocking work about "The Second Sex" from a literary perspective. A strange book that influenced Marquez, Borges, and Janet Vincent. The story of "Orlando" begins in the Elizabethan era in the 16th century and ends in the "present day" when Woolf wrote in 1928, lasting four hundred years. Orlando was originally an aristocratic and beautiful boy, innocent and infatuated with poetry. He entered the court because he was favored by the queen. After King James ascends the throne, the Great Frost comes. Orlando encounters a Russian princess and falls in love, but suffers a double betrayal of literature and love. After a fire in Constantinople, Orlando became a woman and first mingled among the Gypsies, then returned to England and became a noble lady of high society. Entering the Victorian era, Orlando had no choice but to compromise with the spirit of the times in order to continue writing. At the end of the story, Orlando is already a prize-winning poet in the 20th century. She returns to the mansion that runs throughout the book and comes under the big oak tree to review her eternal pursuit of literature and poetry.

"Dunhuang" is one of the important historical novels based on China created by the Japanese literary giant Yasushi Inoue. It has won the Mainichi Art Award. The numerous scriptures in the Mogao Grottoes are now a treasure that is admired by the world, but who buried these scriptures and why, and how many mysteries are there behind the unnamed scripture collector? Inoue Yasushi used his earth-shattering "Dunhuang" to guide people to rush to that magical land. During the Tiansheng reign of Emperor Renzong of the Song Dynasty, scholar Zhao Xingde went to Beijing to take the exam, but missed the exam because of sleepiness. He was lost and wandering around, and accidentally got a piece of Xixia cloth that he had never seen before. The breath of the Western Region instantly changed Zhao Xingde's fate, and also left a thousand-year-old mystery for future generations...

"The day when the pursuit is gained is the day when it ends, and the process of searching is also the process of loss." "South of the Border, West of the Sun" tells the story of the thirty-seven-year-old "I" who not only has a successful career, but also has a beautiful wife and a lovely daughter. But "I" always miss my childhood sweetheart Shimamoto. The two missed each other by mistake when they were young. Twenty years later, Shimamoto, who had experienced a failed marriage, appeared in front of "me" again, and the two quickly fell in love. However, just when "I" was ready to risk everything and abandon everything to be with Shimamoto, Shimamoto was nowhere to be found. Fortunately, the already broken marriage was supported and repaired with the forgiveness of his wife. After going round and round, my childhood memories were finally stored somewhere in my heart, and everything returned to normal.

"This artificial satellite, which means 'travel companion', uses people's loneliness as nourishment to maintain its operation." "Sputnik Lovers" is a novel written by Japanese writer Haruki Murakami, which explores the nature of human loneliness. "I" like the girl Sumire who is addicted to writing, but Sumire is in love with her fellow musician, Min, who is 17 years older, and becomes Min's traveling companion in Europe with a heart of love. But after her confession to Min was rejected, Sumire mysteriously disappeared on a Greek island. Because she discovered that the "lover" turned out to be just a body, and the soul had already disappeared in a thrilling night. Girls who are desperate for heterosexual love also cannot pursue same-sex love. In the end, only the young man who had been searching for her in vain was left to mutter the question: "Why do people have to be so lonely?" The young man who had unrequited love for Sumire also muttered to himself, "Isn't it possible that this planet relies on people's loneliness as nourishment to maintain its operation?"

The novel is set in the United States in the 1990s. Because of a specious remark, Coleman, a university professor who is over 70 years old, was accused of being a "racist". After the ensuing forced resignation and the death of his wife, Coleman, who was taking the blame, broke the news of his love affair with the young female cleaner Fonya. All these incidents made Coleman hated by all parties, including Faunia's husband, a disabled Vietnam veteran. Eventually Coleman was cornered by rumors, anonymous letters and stalkers. Race, identity, individual and era, chance and fate, the novel is filled with conflicts and collisions of various elements. In Coleman's continuous "fall", the interspersed fragments intertwined with the main plot reveal that Coleman is not a Jew as he has always claimed, but a light-skinned black man; Faunya is not illiterate... These make the conflicts and collisions in the novel more three-dimensional, and the plot becomes more complicated and confusing.

The book market is becoming more and more prosperous, the bindings are becoming more and more exquisite, bookstores are becoming more and more popular, and writers have never been more popular around the world than they are now, but real literature is almost extinct. Dubravka pretends to be an Eastern European who has been neglected by the British and American literary market, and complains about the many chaos in today's literary world: New literary stars appear every once in a while; literature that is repeatedly "redefined"; identity politics writing that shows off its unique abilities; a copyright operation model that puts the cart before the horse; a bookstore that is like a combination of a supermarket and a cafe; a book fair that essentially has nothing to do with books; Internet celebrity editors whose style is indistinguishable from that of writers; think Ivana Trump is more capable than Brodsky of "making penetrating analysis of the political situation in the motherland" media book review... Literature has lost its access mechanism and evaluation standards. Any star can promote their new book anywhere, and any kind of negative evaluation can be used for profit by the cunning market. However, the most bizarre thing is that in this extremely "democratic" global market, its cultural "commodities" and creative requirements always remind people of our old friend "socialist realism"...

Critics in the book "Old Man Goriot" call Goriot Goriot the modern King Lear. The character in Balzac's works is not just a character, but a typical example of the times. The factors of tragedy are not limited to personal temperament, but especially the promiscuous and corrupt social environment. The struggle of careerists seeking fame and fortune, intertwined with Goriot's desperate fatherly love, make the content of the novel more bizarre and touching. This book is a particularly serious and exciting one among Mr. Fu Lei's translations.

As winter approaches, Subei has the same idea as in previous years: to go to his beloved "island", which is Blackwell Prison, to "escape from the cold." Nowadays, the benches in Madison Square are no longer suitable...

This book is a novel written by E. M. Forster in 1913. It tells the story of Maurice and his Cambridge lover Clive after they separated. In despair, he met the gamekeeper Alec, broke the taboo and stayed together.

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