model essay on reading The Sun Also Rises 1

I have read the book The Sun Also Rises before, but after several years, my impression is a little blurred, and the story is almost completely forgotten. All I remember is that at the end of the book, the woman said to the man, "If only we could be together," and the man replied, "Isn't it good to think like this?"

This conversation is probably very famous. I remember Sun Ganlu quoted it in an essay, and it was said in a joking tone. Because the man in The Sun Also Rises has no sexual ability, he can only "think".

To tell the truth, if Sun Ganlu hadn't mentioned it in the book, I would have forgotten this plot, because I borrowed Hemingway's books from the library for a while, and I ate too much at once, but I didn't have a aftertaste.

I was visiting a bookstore in Yangzhou the other day, and I saw The Sun Also Rises by the Translation Publishing House, so I was going to buy it and read it again. But after I bought it, I looked at the book carefully. First of all, I found that the binding design was very bad, with a pink tone and a lace similar to the red brocade quilt cover (since Zhang Ailing's little reunion became popular, All the literary books published in Shanghai seem to be infected with this lazy and decadent kitsch. Today, I saw a clothing store just opened, and the sign was actually covered with red brocade, and the name of the store was actually called "little reunion". < P > What's more, I am not satisfied with this version of the translation, and some modal particles are not appropriate, such as "That Romero is still a child", and there are many similar sentences, which destroy the extremely important things in the work and the sense of language. In addition, the preface of this translator is even worse. At first, I couldn't go on reading two lines, and then I skipped reading the text directly. After reading the text, I didn't want to leave the book because of the charm of the original, so I turned to the preface of the frontispiece. After reading it, I almost threw up. This translator used Marxism-Leninism and nationalism to interpret this book, which was not just a misinterpretation.

the hero, Jack. Barnes was injured in the war and lost his sexual ability. This is the introduction of the book, but it will make readers mistakenly think that Jack can't be with Brett because of this. In fact, Jack is sexually capable and can't be with Brett for a long time, because people like Jack, Brett, Bill and Mike are "exiles" who have no home. They live a bohemian dissolute life and are really "confused" mentally. I absolutely disagree with the nonsense of "capitalist crisis", "imperialist war" and "decadent capitalist society" mentioned in the translator's preface. Indeed, Jack was injured in the great war, but the war was only a token, which really played a key role, or after the arrival of modernity (this is a problem that you have to face no matter whether you are capitalism or whatever), people's fate was completely changed and people were forced to leave their land and homes. They can only drift around the world, so when the "roots" of Jack and others are cut off by the modern sword, some traditional values, living conditions and even religious beliefs also collapse.

However, among Jack's friends, only Cohen, a Jew, is a special example. His attitude towards women, love and marriage is still relatively traditional, which is why Cohen is so out of date and even annoying among Jack's group. Hemingway's reason for describing Cohen with pen and ink is to use his "tradition" to contrast the "modernity" of Jack's group. Of course, Cohen is also very important.

In addition, in Hemingway's literary era, the Puritan ideology popular in American society, including the later prohibition of alcohol, is also an important background. Personally, I think this is actually one of the signs of modernity, but it is set off from the opposite side. In The Sun Also Rises, Jack, Bill and Mike prefer to wander overseas and get drunk all day, which is also related to this.

The second half of the book mainly describes the experience of Jack and his group in Spain's "San Fermin Festival". When I read it here two days ago, I was on a long-distance bus home. At that time, the window was full of beautiful spring, and what the book described was the atmosphere of the carnival, especially the atmosphere seen by some strangers and some tourists, which really fascinated me, so I thought at that time that this book was on the journey.

I think Hemingway is so obsessed with bullfighting, not only because there is a fierce and masculine beauty of male vitality in bullfighting activities, but more importantly, the relationship between the matador and the bull in bullfighting activities, a vacillating relationship between infatuation and injury, and this relationship is very clear to the most advanced matador, just like Romero in the book, who loves bulls. However, he is always in the absurd and dangerous situation of being killed or killed by a bull on the court, and the most attractive place of bullfighting is here. Once the matador notices his personal safety and deliberately avoids the dangerous distance from the bull, there is nothing to watch. In addition, there is also a relationship between the matador and the bull. All this is very similar to one of the most important relationships on which we human beings thrive, men and women, teasing and being teased, hurting and being hurt. This actually corresponds to the relationship between Jack, Mike, Cohen and Brett, as well as the relationship between Brett and Romero.

Hemingway said that his writing only reflects the "tip of the iceberg", and I think to understand this sentence, we should start from the perspective of his writing skills, because words are an abstract expression. Because of this, many people's writing will include narrative, description, speculation, comment and other factors at the same time, such as writers like Tolstoy and Kundera, while Hemingway only does narrative and description. His presentation of life scenes, environment, dialogue and atmosphere is also restrained. He doesn't comment on or analyze the so-called "psychological world" of characters, but what he wants to tell us is already hidden in the huge iceberg under the sea. This technique is very similar to movies, which may be the reason why most of Hemingway's works have been adapted into film and television dramas. Besides, some of Wang Shuo's novels are like this, such as My favorite "Playing is Heartbeat". The Sun Also Rises is Hemingway's first novel and his famous work. Some people say that Hemingway's novels are not as good as his short stories. Why do they have such a view? I don't know. I only believe that if a story can be written in a short story, Hemingway will not write it into a long story. On the other hand, if a story can't be written in a short story, he will write it into a long one. What this means is that his long story is not so much a long story as a large short story. The difference between a short story and a long story is that its structure is more compact and its theme is more single. If the novel is a shotgun with ten bursts, the short story is a "single play", and Hemingway's elongated short story is like a sniper rifle with long range and high precision. No matter how long the length of his novel is, the theme will pierce through it.

No one can see the above point more clearly than Faulkner. After Hemingway finished writing The Old Man and the Sea, Faulkner wrote a short comment, and the last sentence was: "Praise God, I hope that the power that created, loved and pitied Hemingway-whatever it is-will restrain Hemingway and never let him change this work again." The meaning of the foreskin in this sentence is obvious, which means that the novel is scattered if it is more, and lacking if it is less. The old man and the sea is neither a long story nor a short story, but a novella just in between. Therefore, Hemingway's novel is such a novel. It is a novel that needs to be written completely and without many words. Its length does not represent anything, but only represents the length that it should be.

If a reader reads Hemingway's novels for the first time, and the reader begins to read his novels after hearing Hemingway's name, the reader may encounter such a thing, that is, he is puzzled by Hemingway's name and the prosaic language of his novels. Because after hearing Hemingway's fame, he will have expectations that his novels must be very brilliant, exciting, thrilling and high-tide. But if he sees it this way, he must be disappointed after reading a few pages. Then, he will change from reading to browsing. The more he does, the more dull he feels the novel, and finally he can't read it any more.

In fact, as I have said above, Hemingway's novels have a main line that penetrates the whole article, and this main line is often hidden in Hemingway's novels. If you don't grasp it well and don't know his "iceberg theory", you will turn a blind eye to the beauty of the novel. According to his iceberg theory, "the visible part is one eighth, while the invisible part is seven eighths", which is actually the main line, or more accurately, the "psychological main line" of the characters. As for the "psychological main line", as long as you think about the ratio between what a person has said and done, and what his psychology has ever existed and appeared, you will think that this "seven-eighth" ratio is actually very reasonable.

In this novel, Barnes, the hero, is injured in the great war, which prevents him from living a normal life with the woman he loves. What's more, the Brett he loves is lively and loves life. Brett and Barnes have known and loved each other for a long time, but they didn't get married for the above reasons. At the beginning of the novel, Brett has been through two unhappy marriages and is preparing to get married for the third time, and the stories of the novel are unfolded in turn during this time period.

First of all, from the framework of this novel, we can imagine the complex taste Barnes should have, such as guilt, dull pain, jealousy, frustration, loneliness, helplessness, emptiness, humiliation and so on. And all these complicated tastes are the "seven eighths" that Hemingway wants to hide. If you don't agree with Barnes' feelings before reading this novel, you will find it boring to read all the gossip at the wine table between Barnes and others in this novel. And one eighth of this novel is composed of such "gossip".

Of course, when you hear this, you may think that I mean that you can understand those "gossip" as long as you learn to "listen", so you can understand this novel, but you may ask, reading is one thing, and liking it is another. Let's talk about what Hemingway's novels really love readers.

for whom the bell tolls's charm first lies in his insight into people's hearts, which is manifested in his role-building. His role is just like that of an "invincible man". The essence of this "invincible man" is not to refuse to bow to fate, but to refuse to be manipulated by others. Agree with God and be responsible for your own choices, which does not damage your courage and strength. But it is unbearable to let others interfere in your own destiny. These people always put their hands in your purse, put their feet on your shoulders, build roads on your land, or always ask you to devote yourself to their cause, and then give you something you can no longer enjoy. Only in front of such people, this "invincible" image is truly golden and has real value.

In this novel, there are actually three people around the image of "invincible", one is Barnes, the other is Cohen, and the other is Romero, the last boyfriend of Brayley (he is a matador). In Barnes, we first see a man who is content with his fate. This man is "defeated" by fate, but he is "defeated but not broken". Only when his image is projected on Cohen, a Jew who pursues Blair, will he show the true meaning of "unbreakable".

Cohen, the first person we see is a man who is proud of his life, but in the end he not only collapsed, but also collapsed with great ugliness. Although he knocked Barnes unconscious and beat Romero unable to climb up, in the eyes of Bradley, Barnes and Romero, he was defeated. He finally had to leave in despair. He is an out-and-out love slave. He was defeated not by fate, but by Brian Riley, and Brian Riley was able to defeat him because he was a poor guy who could be easily defeated by anyone. It is from him that Barnes' understanding of life and the indomitable spirit is reflected. And Romero, Hemingway used his duel with Cohen (former boxing champion) to show the spirit of "unbreakable" more truly. The dueling part is simply wonderful. One is a matador and the other is a boxer. The matador faces the boxer's fierceness with the indomitable spirit of bullfighting. The final outcome is: the boxer is more difficult to fight than the bull and the matador is more tenacious than the boxer, that is to say, the essence of "invincible" is not fierce but tenacious (Hemingway's two favorite themes "boxing" and "bullfighting" collide in this novel, but the boxer is a bit of a dish). From here, Hemingway's insight into human nature is fascinating.

In addition, Hemingway's storytelling skills are also extraordinary. Cohen's psychology is grasped by him from beginning to end in this novel. This alone is not simple. There is no positive description of what happened between Cohen and Blair in the novel, but what happened between them makes readers feel very clear, as if Hemingway had said it all in the novel. And this is only because he described Cohen's strange behavior very truly.

Finally, the article concludes with Hemingway's "iceberg theory": "If a prose writer fully understands what he has written, he can omit what he and his readers know; If this writer writes extremely truthfully, he will feel those things strongly, as if the writer had already told them. " (Excerpted from Death in the Afternoon) The most important word in the above sentence is "extremely true".

Hemingway is not just an indestructible man, but a man who exudes the charm of being smart and sophisticated, cautious and rebellious, serious and cynical in both life and writing. My son came back from Xi 'an yesterday by high-speed train via Yanzhou. I saved some articles from Wen Wei Po during the Spring Festival. I read a few articles today. Hemingway's abstract was searched from Baidu.

Hemingway showed his talent in writing when he was a student, and became a trainee reporter after graduating from high school. First world