The advantage of reading popular literature is that you can grasp the dynamics and direction of social development.
But it is important to know what is a real classic and what is a good fashion.
Although modern popular popular works are infected with the breath of people's times and keep up with the trend, immortal classics condense the essence of human thought and art from generation to generation, which can cultivate ideological sentiment and give people deep thinking space.
Reading and thinking about classics from an early age is of great benefit to children's personality shaping. The world that children know and feel through these immortal literary works, the knowledge and understanding of truth, goodness, beauty, falsehood, ugliness and ugliness, and the subtle acceptance of life philosophy are much deeper and more effective than the superficial preaching of adults.
Knowledge is infinite. Tens of thousands to hundreds of thousands of books are published every day in the world. A person's time and energy are limited, and we can never know all the knowledge. Therefore, we should choose the most useful books to read.
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Characteristics of classic literature:
1, purity
In the process of conception and writing, classical literature must exhaust political lies, moral lies, business lies, lies and ignorance of maintaining class power, so as to make the literary products presented have pure artistry. It is purely a permanent spiritual habitat outside utility.
Classic works are often that one thousand people can read one thousand hamlets and ten thousand people can read ten thousand hamlets. Classics can form countless diametrically opposite interpretations, so they will form arguments for a long time and become the focus of attention.
2. originality
Classics cannot be repeated, and they will never repeat the previous classics. Classics always refuse the aesthetic fatigue caused by mutual repetition in their own unique way, giving people a permanent freshness. In his book Literary Classics, Bloom strongly advocates the originality of classics.
3. unforgettable
Classics often give people unforgettable qualities. Calvino said in Why to Read Classics: "Classics are books with special influence. They are either imprinted into our imagination in an unforgettable way, or disguised as individual or collective unconsciousness and hidden in the depths of memory. "
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