In the evening, snow falls from the sky. I went out and watched pedestrians walk slowly along the footprints, cars crawling carefully along the ruts, and even the delivery guy had to paddle like a snail on two feet. I suddenly felt that the snow was very long, and when I looked at it, I felt like I was in a white snow country.
This reminds me of Yasunari Kawabata's "Snow Country", and I remember the beginning of "Through the long tunnel of the prefectural border, there is Snow Country." There was a white ...... under the night sky"It was a clean world of unparalleled beauty.
The first time I read it last year, I was amazed by the delicate and beautiful words in the book, so I found two different translations and read them all. One of them was translated by Lin Shaohua. It's about the male protagonist Shimamura, who went to the snowy northern mountain village three times, and fell into a love entanglement with the local geisha Komako, and the girl Yezi who met in Pingshui.
At the end of the story, in a white snowfall, the fire is dazzling, and the beautiful life of the leaf suddenly disappears, and the foal, who depends on the leaf, goes crazy on the spot, and Shimamura stands at the scene of the fire, feeling that the Milky Way in the sky seems to be roaring, pouring down on his heart, and the snow country collapses in a heavy snowfall, and it is simply broken in the illusory beauty.
Leaf and foal, one is a girl with a twinkling light in her eyes, the other is a woman who remembers by the touch of her fingers, one is a living soul, and the other is a clean body. For Shimamura, hovering between the two, the moment of gain, in fact, is the moment of loss, no matter how hard he tries to love and be loved, he is always living a life of loss.
The fateful entanglement of the three people, beauty and sorrow, carefully weaves a snow-white and heart-pounding world.
Later, I read Lin Shaohua's critical article on "Snow Country", he said that "clean" is used for foals, and "sad" is used for leaves, "so beautiful that it makes people sad, beautiful and sad, clear and sad, beautiful and sad, and the laughter is so crisp that it makes people sad." "Beauty is associated with sorrow, and sorrow is beauty.
Clean", "sad", and "futile" are the key words in Snowpiercer. The vast snow country, cold and cold. Life is not a vast snow country, looking at the busy people and cars running around again and again, I feel a little bit of the emptiness of life, I can't help but feel sad, the earth is white.