What Yaolivas said was beyond everyone's expectations. I thought it was a novel for the ignorant to pass the day, but in fact, there are so many benefits to reading it.
¡ª¡ª"The most important thing is here, the third benefit of reading more serious novels is that it can improve your writing ability.
Many famous writers have said that writing is not a great skill. Our language education has been teaching us how to write beautifully, and the result is to cultivate a group of small literati who moan without illness.
Chinese has its unique advantages, with sonorous syllables, rich meanings and flexible grammar. Therefore, Chinese is very suitable for expressing emotions, but it is clumsy for narration and reasoning.
Yan Fu tried to translate "Tian Yan Lun" and other social science masterpieces in classical Chinese. To learn to narrate and learn to tell stories, one must read more novels.
There were also novels in ancient China, but most of them were poorly written. "Dream of Red Mansions" and "Jin Ping Mei" are excellent works, "Water Margin" and "Strange Tales from a Liaozhai Studio" are inferior, but "Journey to the West" and "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" are not enough.
Chinese lovers should not be unconvinced. Chinese and Western cultures have their own advantages and disadvantages. When encountering others who are better than us, just learn with an open mind.
?Writing a poem can be "accidentally acquired by a clever hand", but writing a novel is technical and physical work. How to plan the layout, how to control the rhythm, how to portray the characters, and how to choose the perspective are all particular.
?I think that the text has no fixed method and comes out of its own accord, but it is just for the teacher's own use. "
Chu Lihua was really inspired. However, she has never read any of the novels mentioned by Yaolivas. But, with so many novels, which ones are good to read?
Chu Lihua also asked Yao Livas for advice.
Yao Livas said, "There is no standard answer to this. One's own delicacy is one's own poison. Everyone's tastes are too different.
However, you may wish to borrow the words of the British writer Samuel Johnson and read it as an "ordinary reader". The so-called "ordinary readers" are readers who have not been polluted by literary prejudice and can still maintain common sense.
Let me talk about my reading experience as an "ordinary reader". When I first read books, my reading list was relatively traditional, mostly in the classics. With my limited reading, I prefer Dickens, Leo Tolstoy, Jane Austen, Flaubert, Kraft card etc.
In addition to these classics that the general secretary has read, today I will introduce to you some contemporary works that I have read recently. Not many, only 21 books are introduced.
Our reading speed may be slower. If we read one book a week, we can finish it in five months.
My personal recommended novel list includes:
1. Margaret Atwood, The Blind Assassin.
I won't repeat the content of the book here, and I will leave enough room for everyone.
2. Salman Rushdie, Midnight's Children.
3. Aravind Adiga, "The White Tiger".
4. Ian McEwan, Atonement.
5. Italo Calvino, "If On a Winter Night, A Traveler".
6. Flannery O'Connor, A Good Man is Hard to Find.
7. Yagota Christopher, "The Bad Boy Trilogy".
8. Roberto Bola?o, "2666".
9. Don DeLillo, Underworld.
10. Kazuo Ishiguro, "The Remains of the Day".
11.a.s. Byatt, Possession.
12. Julian Barnes, "A History of the World in 10 Chapters"
13. Thomas Pynchon, "Gravity's Rainbow".
14. Umberto Eco, "The Name of the Rose".
15. Philip Roth, "I Married a Communist".
16. Paolo Giordano, The Solitude of Prime Numbers.
17. David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas.
18. Alice Munro, Dear Life.
19. Martin Amis, The Arrow of Time.
20. George Martin, A Song of Ice and Fire.
21. Arthur Haley's series of industry novels: "Grand Hotel", "Airport", "Evening News", "Poison", "Motown", "Final Diagnosis"
When Chu Lihua listened to Yao Livas proficiently pronouncing these awkward book titles and author names. Her eyes are staring into circles.
To be honest, apart from the name Kazuo Ishiguro, she has heard of the title of the book "Gravity's Rainbow". Everything else is very strange.
It seems that if you want to write a novel, the basic skills practice in the early stage is really important.
No wonder she and Meng Xianxiang have changed several times.On the way, I have written several novels, and all of them replied that they are not eligible for the time being.
What Meng Xianxiang said next. Chu Lihua was even more ashamed. It turned out that she had a lot of background, and it seemed that she was dragged down by herself.
He said, "Yolivas, I very much agree with your point of view, seemingly useless idle books¡ªserious novels, have a subtle character-building function.
I think that besides genetic inheritance, the other half of my emotional intelligence mainly comes from novels, because I read novels when I was a student, and political articles without plots will make me drowsy.
After so many years, I have come up with a relatively shallow summary. For example, compared with Japanese literature, Russian literature as a whole has a more magnificent momentum and clearer values.
French literature is exquisite, and English literature is more readable (and it may be my own preference) (haha). I still remember that O'Henry's "The Lighted Lamp" taught me how to choose a suitable spouse, although the original intention of this story should not be this.
I don't know what you think of online literature? I myself also read articles on the Internet, but I mainly prefer old sayings, whether it is time-traveling articles or others. I think that the author who can write ancient stories well must have good skills, whether it is historical and geographical knowledge, or the accumulation of Chinese studies.
It's a pity that the current domestic history education is too rigid. If there is such a class, tell girls; which dynasty women wear what kind of brocade clothes and what kind of hairpin; tell boys what dynasty generals wear. It must be very interesting to use the armor and what kind of weapons. "
¡ª¡ª"I think online literary works are mainly focused on cool points, some of which are poorly written, have many typos, or are novels that completely destroy the three views; because the storyline is very good, there are many cool points, and it is always unstoppable. "
It was rare for Qing Yunfei to speak, "What gas is that, "The Romance of the Three Kingdoms" is one of the four great classics, is it a bit too much for you to say that it is obscene or not"
Yao Livas shook his head, "I didn't say that, "The Romance of the Three Kingdoms" was poorly written. Listen to Lu Xun's classic evaluation: "As for writing about people, it is also quite flawed, so that it wants to show that Liu Bei is strong and thick, but seems fake, like Zhuge Zhizhi." Much wiser but close to demon'."
Chu Lihua nodded, "I agree with this point. It is said that Liu Bei is actually a scoundrel, and Zhuge Liang is not that magical." (Remember the website website: www.hlnovel.com