1, Pearl Sai's "Earth" is really good, and the Nobel Prize in Literature is definitely not given for nothing. The depiction of customs and people, and the observation and perception of the psychological character of the Chinese people are all first-class.
But good is different from good, there are different degrees, and there are also differences in characteristics.
The Earth is a trilogy consisting of The Earth, The Sons, and The Separation. Won the Nobel Prize for the first "Earth".
My least favorite part is the first one. In my opinion, the best part is the third part, the second part is second, and the first part can only accompany the last seat.
It only took one day to read the first part, which is popular and easy to read, and there is no need to meditate;It took two and a half days to read the second part, which basically continued the style of the first part, but there was a certain breakthrough in terms of delicacy, profundity and accuracy;It took me a week to read the third part, read it, think about it, and sometimes I have to go back and reread it, because if I don't read it carefully, I can't grasp it repeatedly. When the traditional Chinese white drawing is combined with Western psychological analysis, it naturally has new ideas and depth.
Actually, it's easy to understand. The first was written in China, and it was the earliest;The other two were written back to the United States, and the author's living environment and social background at that time were different.
2, "The Earth" is a "Three Nos**" with no chronological time, no clear location, and unclear identities of the characters.
It is not so much the use of techniques as the "separation" between Chinese and Western cultures. If we compare the ages of the characters in the book with the social background of the time, we will find an absolute error. Perhaps the author deliberately downplayed the background of the times, but without the background of the times, the characters and events have nothing to be attached to.
3. The work mainly expresses the longing, perseverance and abandonment of land by three generations of Chinese.
The first generation was Wang Lung, who suffered from landlessness for generations, and desperately pursued the acquisition of land all his life. Through plunder, which violated traditional Chinese morality, he completed the initial accumulation of capital and converted it into land resources, thus gaining social recognition and respect, and became a landlord from the poorThe second generation is represented by Brother Wang Yuan, one of whom squandered and enjoyed the wealth obtained from land, one snowballed to expand land possession, and the other obtained political discourse through land.
In the third generation, it is represented by Wang Yuan. They were trapped in the narrow-mindedness, weakness and powerlessness of the Chinese peasants, and at the same time accepted new ideas and new cultures from the West, and began to break through the land cultureBut some broke through, and some returned to that land. In fact, it is a game between tradition and modernity. In the end, Wang Yuan was not willing to be like his predecessors who defended the land, nor did he disagree with the contempt and abandonment of the land by his peers. He returned to the land, but the tide was gone, and there was no place for his ancestors to possess it. In the final analysis, it is a kind of survival dilemma of modern people.
I would like to re-read this book because there are still many things that I have not read and thought through. Since you spent a lot of money to buy this book, you should make the best use of it, otherwise, isn't this real gold ** a waste?
2024, 1, 9, in Beijing.