Chapter 036: Marquez
The concise eyebrows danced endlessly, and the more he talked, the more excited he became, and the more he spoke, the more energetic he became. She picked up a copy of "One Hundred Years of Solitude" prepared in advance from the glass coffee table next to her, opened it to the mark she had made, and then read it aloud with emotion.
At the same time, Jia Youwei's first reaction in his heart was this book that Marquez would have to talk about.
However, in his personal opinion, "One Hundred Years of Solitude" is not a book that everyone can read. Nine out of ten of them either can't read it or just don't understand it the first time. To understand this book, you must first have some knowledge of Latin American history.
Otherwise, you don't even know what the writer is writing about. In the initial stage, one moment this one came, one moment that came again, one moment this one brought something, and one moment that brought something. It was to write about the changes that took place after Latin America was discovered by the Europeans.
In the middle of the section, one moment this one called, and the other one came and knocked this away. One moment this one came back, the next one beat that one away, and it was completely unclear why they were fighting and what the point of fighting back and forth. This is what is written about the process of liberation, democracy and freedom in Latin America.
The reason why "One Hundred Years of Solitude" is talked about is definitely not only this, but also in his writing technique and sentence structure. As Mo Yan said, novels can still be written like this.
In fact, in terms of content alone, what is written in the book is very boring. Jia Youwei also doesn't like Marquez's "One Hundred Years of Solitude" very much, but his other masterpiece "Love in the Time of Cholera". These two works can be said to have hollowed out all of Márquez.
Jia Youwei admitted that Marquez's status as a literary master of a generation was shocked to the extent of "Love in the Time of Cholera".
This novel perfectly interprets one of the things that Chinese love to say, a woman's spiritual derailment, but physical loyalty, and a man's spiritual lifelong love, physical derailment. Male and female, who is not loyal to each other?
"One Hundred Years of Solitude" and "Love in the Time of Cholera" are both written in flashbacks. The latter's flashback begins with the woman's husband dying, and after the burial, the first thing she recalls when she lies in bed is not her dead husband's past, but her first love.
So, the flashback begins, and the camera of the writing suddenly pulls back to what happened when they were younger. A woman's first love is unable to marry her due to the disparity in identity and status. The woman ends up united with her deceased husband, a doctor.
For half a century, men have slept with several other women, just to satisfy the lustful instincts of men's nature, but spiritually they have always loved women.
The two were dying, the soil was buried in their necks, and they met again. They embarked on a sailing trip. When the love between the two was abandoned again, it was even hotter than when they were young, and they had missed half a century and could no longer endure the process of waiting.
Jia Youwei easily thought of all the things between himself and his ex-wife. There is a huge disparity in identity between them, one is born with all the material things that others pursue in their lives but cannot obtain, while the other is born with nothing to say.
The two quarreled so much that when they divorced, according to Qin Qing, she must be self-reliant, and resolutely not live like her parents in this life.
Every moment and every second, I repeatedly admonish myself, enterprising, enterprising, enterprising. She has a six-percent principle, that is, out of a hundred people in the world, only six people will live happily, while the remaining ninety-four people will have varying degrees of unhappiness.
If she can't be in the top 6 percent, the unfortunate today of others will be her own tomorrow. She has read Li Bai's "Concubine Thin Life", and her favorite sentence is that when can she get good for others.
This is nothing more than a warning to yourself that if a woman tries to dominate a man with her beauty, this idea is undoubtedly extremely stupid.
Any woman will be old and decrepit, and when your temples are gray, can you still tie this man's heart through beauty?
A truly intelligent woman is deeply attracted to a man through her own elegance and intelligence exuded from the inside out, from the initiative of vainly trying to rely on beauty to the passivity of being infatuated by men, and the woman who knows how to take advantage of the latter is undoubtedly smart.
The final result led to the breakdown of the marriage between the two, not that Qin Qing's methods were not clever enough, but that she spent money to bury herself, and also made Jia Youwei wake up from it.
Now, whether there has been love between Jia Youwei and Qin Qing, even he himself can't say clearly, and he is completely confused.
At first, he thought that before marriage, there was, and after marriage, there was none. Later, I further thought about it, if I didn't have such a background of billions of dollars, would Qin Qing still accept the beginning of dancing with him at the beginning?
Perhaps, like countless poor students in the university, he is trying his best to complete the four years of college, get that college diploma, and then find a good job, have a good income, and live a good life.
During my studies, I either used my spare time to work part-time jobs, or took out student loans and scholarships. I don't dare to take the train home during the summer and winter vacations, after all, it is an extra non-essential expense.
Anyway, I definitely don't know how to farm, so I might as well stay in the city as a tutor and work part-time.
Every morning, I will be entangled in my heart, whether to eat steamed buns or steamed buns, and carefully calculate the use of every dime. When I meet a girl I like, I'm afraid I can't even say I love you.
After a long time, Jia Youwei simply didn't want to think about it. There is no need for him to make personal and personal troubles, after all, he is even divorced.
I would rather die than remarry Qin Qing. If it weren't for his daughter's face, he wouldn't want to see each other again in his life, and he would have any intersection with her.
Jia Youwei suddenly thought of Marquez's masterpiece "Memoirs of a Bitter Prostitute" for a while. I think it should be renamed "Memoirs of an Old Prostitute", which is the most appropriate content in the book.
If he could live to be 90 years old, he might as well find a virgin of fifteen or sixteen years old to celebrate his full birthday. At that time, could I still be hard?