In "Bring a Book to Paris," Linda takes a book with her on a trip to Paris.
Pictures from Linda's book "Bring a Book to Paris"
Linda is the pen name shared by a couple of Chinese-American writers, the husband is Ding Hongfu and the wife is Li Xiaolin.
This book was published by People's Literature Publishing House in 1978 and priced at RMB 1.15. The first edition was published in Beijing in May 1957, and the first printing was in Jilin in April 1978. It took 21 years from typesetting to printing.
The students in 1978 had been hungry for ten years due to book shortage. When they heard that a batch of translations of world classics were about to be released, they went to the bookstore early to inquire about it and got close to the staff. These masterpieces were quickly divided up by everyone after they were published, and not a single one was left. This is how Linda’s books were snapped up.
In 1982, this book was reprinted, the format was larger, and the price rose to 1.60 yuan. Linda bought it without hesitation. It was not until she returned home that she realized that she did not need the second edition. An identical book.
This is not over yet. After buying it back, Linda carefully put the book on the bookshelf and kept it there for another 22 years without reading it. Among the people who were rushing to buy with Linda at that time, there must be someone who also "robbed" them and took them home and then put them away.
Pictures from Linda's book "Bring a Book to Paris"
This book is Victor Hugo's "1993". Compared with "Les Misérables" and "Notre Dame de Paris", "1993" is not so famous, but it is the last important work published by Hugo in his later years, and it can be called "the masterpiece".
A book was published 21 years after it was typed. Linda took great pains to buy it twice. After buying it, she kept it for 22 years. It was not until she traveled to Paris that she took it with her and read it. There should be many unknown stories in this.
Serious lack of necessities can cause mental damage to people, and the result is a mild mental disorder. For example, the elderly in many families have the habit of collecting garbage or even picking it up and bringing it home. This is the legacy left to people in an era of severe material shortages. And some people in our generation have almost crazy book-buying habits.
——Linda
It’s embarrassing to say that Xiaotu also has an almost crazy habit of buying books. I own the book "1993" published in May 1999. I bought it in June 2020, priced at 22 yuan, and bought it for 11.4 yuan. I bought it and kept it for nearly 2 years, and only finished reading it in March 2022.
The story begins with a small incision. In a forest, a group of red hat soldiers surrounded a mother who was breastfeeding three children. Her husband had just died.
"Who beat to death?"
"I don't know."
"Why don't you know who beat your husband to death?"
"I just don't know."
"Is it a member of the Blue Army or a member of the White Army?"
"It's a bullet."
This group of red hat soldiers decided to take in the mother and three children. The oldest child was only 4 years old, and the youngest was just over 1 year old.
That was around May 1793. There was a shortage of bread, coal, soap, and meat. Everyone was rationed one pound of meat every ten days, and people queued up to buy bread, often all night long. Prices have skyrocketed, and firewood is too expensive. Some poor people have to split their beds to use as firewood.
At the beginning of this year, Louis XVI was executed by the National Convention for treason and sent to the guillotine.
When Louis XVI was sentenced to death, Robespierre only had one and a half years left to live, Danton only had one year and three months left, and Vernio only nine months. , Marat had only five months and three weeks left, and Le Pelletier Saint-Fargeau had only one day left.
The history of the French Revolution that I had to memorize in high school became vivid characters in this book.
The mother and three children who were taken in by the Red Hat Army have become key figures throughout the book, and they also shine with the brilliance of humanitarianism among people during the war years.
An old man who had been a prince landed in France under the escort of a ship. When the ship's cannon rolled out of control, the old man saved the cannon's life, first rewarded him, and then ordered him to be executed.
For this same old man, after landing, there were notices everywhere offering rewards for his capture. The old man was saved by a beggar, but after finding his men, he ordered the beggar's village to be set on fire, shot and killed the red hat soldiers there, and did not even spare the women accompanying the army, including the mother, and robbed 3 A child.
"Poor people want to be rich, and rich people don't want to be poor." In June 1793, the Jacobins overthrew the Girondin rule and implemented a dictatorship through the National Salvation Committee.
The old man Landenac was originally a prince, and the signatories of the notices ordering his arrest were his grandnephew and heir Guo Wen. The person sent by the National Salvation Committee to supervise Guo Wen was Simulden, Guo Wen's tutor when he was a child and a former priest. The two had a close relationship as father and son.
The old man pursued "no forgiveness" and gathered six to seven thousand peasant troops to launch a rebellion in the Vendée. Simulden, a former priest, was also horrifyingly cruel. Guo Wen, who had only more than a thousand regular troops, had a heart of benevolence.
Liberty, equality, and fraternity are all tenets of peace and harmony. Why give these creeds a scary appearance? What is our purpose? It is to strive for all ethnic groups to form a world-wide democratic republic. Then we should not make them afraid. What's the use of intimidation? Threats can no more attract peoples than scarecrows can attract birds. In order to do good, one should not do evil. The overthrow of the throne was not the erection of the guillotine. Kill the king and let the nation survive. Knock off the crown and spare the head. Revolution is harmony, not terror. Gentle ideas are not well implemented by ruthless people. I think forgiveness is the most beautiful word in human language. I am only willing to bleed when there is a risk of bleeding myself. However, I only know how to fight and am just a soldier. But if people can't forgive, then it's not worth fighting for. Let us be enemies to our enemies in battle and brothers to them in victory.
——Guo Wen
Guo Wen never shoots prisoners, and will forgive the enemy who shot at him and almost killed him. After defeating the old man with less and more, Guo Wen forced the old man and his remaining dozen men to retreat into their family's castle, Ladugue Guo Wen Castle.
The three children became bargaining chips in their negotiations. The old man locked the three children into the castle's library and threatened Guo Wen that if he didn't let them live, he would set fire to the three children and destroy the castle. Guo Wen wanted to save the three children, but he didn't want to compromise and let the old man go.
The mother of the three children who were shot dead by the old man along with the red hat army did not die. They were rescued by the beggar who saved the old man. In order to retrieve her three children, the surviving mother was also on her way to Ladugue Castle. The final tug-of-war begins in the castle.
1993 was a year of war. Europe is against France and France is against Paris.
What is revolution? It is the victory of France over Europe, the victory of Paris over France. Therefore, this terrible moment in 1993 was more important than any other period in this century. Europe attacks France and France attacks Paris. What could be more tragic than this? This is an epic tragedy.
Man is not born to wear chains, but to spread his wings and fly... Man is destroying, destroying, strangling, and killing, but summer is still summer, lilies are still lilies, and the stars are still the same It's the stars.
What is the meaning of war? What is the fate of the three children? Can he still be reunited with his mother? Guo Wen, who wanted to save three children, ordered someone to find a three-story ladder, but instead a guillotine was brought. What kind of stories will happen between grandparents and grandchildren who love and kill each other, and between masters and apprentices?
The answer lies in "1993". The whole book has three parts: at sea, in Paris, and in Vendée, each with its own splendor.
Nowadays, we don’t have to endure the pain of war. If we want to buy a book, we don’t need to spend so much effort; if we want to read a book, we don’t need to wait so long.
Xiaotu is reading "1993" published by Hebei Education Press and translated by Luo Guolin. This version is difficult to find, so Xiaotu found a version translated by Luo Guolin and published by Xi'an Jiaotong University Press.
1993
Douban scored 9.1. This book was published in 1874 and was the last novel written by Hugo. The title of the book means 1793, which was a crucial year in the French bourgeois revolution (1789-1794). This book not only praises the justice of this revolution, but also criticizes the revolutionaries who only talk about violence and not humanity.
Author: [French] Hugo, translated by Luo Guolin
Publisher: Xi'an Jiaotong University Press
Zheng Yonghui's translation of "1993" is also available good. Zheng Yonghui is a well-known French translator in China. He has translated more than 40 works by famous French writers such as Hugo, Balzac, Alexandre Dumas, Mérimée, Flaubert and Maupassant. He has won the Lu Xun Literature Award and is a leader in the field of French translation. .
1993
The novel reflects the magnificent historical scene of the French bourgeois revolution in 1793, and provides a profound description of the life-and-death struggle between the bourgeoisie and the feudal class. In a sense, "1993" is a summary and summary of Hugo's life thoughts, and it is also Hugo's artistically perfect work.
Author: [French] Victor Hugo, translated by Zheng Yonghui
Publisher: China Pictorial Publishing House
The "Bring a Book to Paris" mentioned at the beginning ", reading this book may deepen your understanding of "1993".
Bring a book to Paris
Linda went to Paris with a literary masterpiece ("1993") describing the "revolution". In the castles, squares, palaces, churches, and museums of France, you can enjoy the fruits of culture, taste the feast of art, listen to the echoes of history, and feel the thoughts and wisdom of the predecessors condensed in blood and fire. Author Yu Nonghou In the French historical and cultural atmosphere, it uses a large number of historical details and scenes to enrich the understanding of art, culture, history, society, and "revolution".
Author: Linda
Publisher: Life.Reading.Xinzhi Sanlian Bookstore
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