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outsider
Author: Camus
Content introduction:
Outsiders are objectively recorded? Zero style? , roughly describes the absurd things that the protagonist Musso experienced in the absurd world and his own absurd experience.
Recommended reason:
The Outsider is one of Camus' famous novels and masterpieces, and one of the most epoch-making and famous novels in the whole western literary world in the 20th century. An outsider? It has also become one of the most classic figures and the most important keywords in the whole western literature-philosophy. What Moso did seemed absurd and unreasonable, but in fact it was a weapon he used against this absurd world.
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pestilence
Author: Camus
Content introduction:
Plague is one of Camus' most important representative works. By describing the story of a large number of people fighting against the plague, represented by the protagonist Dr. Rieux, after the outbreak of the plague in Oran, a city in North Africa.
Recommended reason:
This is a great story of human beings' struggle against the plague. The author vividly recorded people's psychological reaction when the plague raged for us: people all over the country endured a silent life in despair, but still lived in expectation and struggle? .
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No one wrote to him, Colonel.
Author: Marquez
Content introduction:
The work is about a 70-year-old colonel's complicated mood and embarrassing life of looking forward to a pension.
Recommended reason:
"Colonel who didn't write to him" is Garcia? Marquez's most famous novella is as famous as Hemingway's The Old Man and the Sea in the history of world literature. So famous? Nobody wrote to him, Colonel? , known as? The most memorable characters in 20th century novels? The end of the novel is also called? The most perfect passage of all literary works? .
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A pre-announced murder case in a village
Author: Marquez
Content introduction:
A murder case publicized in advance is a novel based on real events. By telling the story of an innocent young man who was brutally killed when everyone in the town knew that someone was going to kill him, the author revealed the mystery of fate itself and the tragedy caused by people's bystander attitude towards evil behavior.
Recommended reason:
Shocked and deja vu.
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Sunday in August
Author: modiano
Content introduction:
It was particularly hot that summer. Sylvia and I came to the southern city of Nice from Mana Valley in Paris and lived in a moldy apartment. We are sure that no one will find us here. In this strange city, we will forget everything and start from scratch.
Recommended reason:
20 14 Nobel Prize in Literature winner modiano's classic works. The suspense created at the beginning attracts you to read the back to uncover the mystery, and the plot is confusing.
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St Louis lei bridge
Author: Wild
Content introduction:
The novel begins at noon on July 20th 17 14. At that time, a bridge between Lima and Cuzco collapsed inexplicably, and five people who had just crossed the bridge fell to death. A missionary questioned the incident and launched an investigation.
Recommended reason:
St Louis Bridge is not only a typical moral fable, but also a model work. In modern society, poets (not novelists) will choose this form more. Nathaniel is the only novelist? Hawthorne and George? Louis? The moral fable written by Borges has reached the artistic and philosophical level of this novel.
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amulet
Author: Robert? Polanio
Content introduction:
This may be a horror story. A murder, detective, black horror story. But this is not the case. The whole work is full of sadness, showing a historical picture of melancholy and violence in Latin America, and it is also the best response that literary and art individuals can make in this situation.
Recommended reason:
The Amulet is a very unique work written by Polano from a female perspective. Although it is a short story in Polano's novels, its shocking power is no less than his two masterpieces, Detective Wilderness and 2666. It is surreal, interwoven with the past and the future, time and space and memory.
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Listen to the wind.
Author: Haruki Murakami
Content introduction:
? Me? I found a drunken girl in a bar and spent a drunken night in her house. The misunderstanding of waking up has never been explained clearly. They became a pair of lovers. The sad past was not clear, but she left without a trace. The short 18 days of love, the ending seems to be brainless, but it seems to contain infinity.
Recommended reason:
Listening to the Wind is the source and embryonic form of the language style, writing skills and postmodern artistic atmosphere of Haruki Murakami's novels. It is a revolutionary change in the novel text by the writer from getting rid of the mediocrity and procrastination of Japanese novels and drawing lessons from the concise and lively style of modern American novels. It is an important embodiment of the spirit and literary value of contemporary Japanese novels.
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Rashomon
Author: Akutagawa Ryunosuke
Content introduction:
Under Rashomon, in the bamboo forest; They are justified and extorted; They weave lies for selfish ends. Wearing the cloak of survival, they are unscrupulous.
Recommended reason:
Akutagawa Ryunosuke's novels are classic, delicate and full of tension. They are as elegant and chic as Li Bai, but not as bold and unrestrained as Li Bai, and a little like Ellen? As mysterious and weird as Poe.
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livestock farm
Author: Orwell
Content introduction:
Animal Farm is a political fable novel, which describes a scene. Animalism? The gestation, rise and final transformation of revolution.
Recommended reason:
Professor Xia Zhiqing believes that since Aesop's fables in western literature, there have been fairy tales and fables mainly about animals throughout the ages, but for readers in the late 20th century, none of these works is more pertinent than Animal Farm. ? Animal Farm has aroused great repercussions since its publication. It has been translated into many languages and presented to the world in other artistic forms after adaptation.
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The Little Prince
Author: Antoine? De? Saint? Exuperi
Content introduction:
The little prince is a French writer Antoine? De? Saint? Exupery's famous short story of children's literature written in 1942. The hero of this book is a little prince from another planet. Taking a pilot as the narrator, the book tells the story of all kinds of adventures the little prince experienced when he set off from his own planet to the earth.
Recommended reason:
With the childlike eyes of the little prince, the author reveals the emptiness, blindness, stupidity and rigidity of adults, and writes the lonely and rootless fate of human beings in simple and childish language. The Little Prince is like a bright mirror, reflecting the absurd adult world.
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Siddhartha
Author: Herman? Hessen
Content introduction:
The clever Siddhartha is the son of a Brahmin with excellent morality and knowledge. In order to pursue self-worth and self-truth, he left the Brahmin family and began a journey of seeking Tao alone.
Recommended reason:
In the United States in the 1960s, the hippie movement was in full swing, and Gandhi and others became the spiritual idols of a generation of hippies. Meanwhile, in the field of literature, Herman? Hesse was greatly admired by hippies, and his Siddhartha became the spiritual guide of hippies. Hippies abandoned Hemingway and respected Hesse as their spiritual mentor.
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Died in Venice
Author: Thomas? graceful
Content introduction:
"Die in Venice" tells the story of Sembach, an upright and prestigious hero, who devoted himself tirelessly to creation and devoted himself to climbing the artistic peak during the period of 10. Years of hard work exhausted Aschenbach. In order to rest his nervous brain, he decided to travel.
Recommended reason:
The novel has been translated into various languages all over the world, and it has also been remake into the film "The Soul of Venice". Death in Venice is indeed a veritable crystal product, a structure, and an image that radiates brilliance from many crystal planes.
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Pedro Barramo
Author: Juan? Rulfo
Content introduction:
In the story, Juan? Under the guidance of fantasy and mom, Prisia went to Colama to find her father Pedro? However, what he saw was a building? Cold and empty? This village. In fact, the father he was looking for is long gone.
Recommended reason:
This book belongs to Juan? Ruhr's masterpiece. This work is not only profound in conception, but also innovative in artistic form, which is still considered as? One of the peak novels of Latin American literature? , translated into many languages, widely circulated in all countries of the world.
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A garden with forked paths
Author: Borges
Content introduction:
The Garden with Crossed Paths is a sci-fi novel written by Argentine writer Borges, with Ann China as the protagonist. It tells the story of Zhun, a hero who was a spy for Germany in Britain during World War I, who killed Albert, a sinologist, in order to inform the German boss of important information when his companion was arrested and he was hunted. The story is told in the form of confession in prison after quasi-arrest, and begins with the postponement of a major event in the history of European war, which is fascinating.
Recommended reason:
The Garden with Bifurcated Paths has been widely praised since its publication, and it is called an important work of postmodern literature. The work creates an atmosphere transition zone between metaphysical motivation and detective novels, and at the same time establishes a formal counterpoint relationship.
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Loneliness is too noisy.
Author: Hrabal
Content introduction:
This novel poetically tells the story of Han Jia, a packer, who worked in a waste paper recycling station for 35 years. He picked up precious books from the waste paper pile, hid them at home and held them on his chest. This is a sad story, the sadness of love and the sadness of culture. Han Jia finally put himself into a waste paper bag, and he flew into the sky in those books.
Recommended reason:
Milan? Kundera said: He is a great writer of our time. Most of Hrabal's works describe ordinary, ordinary, obscure and abandoned in? People on the garbage dump of the times? . He expressed sympathy and love for these people at the bottom, and integrated into their lives, finding the beauty in their hearts. His novels are works with Czech flavor.
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Days in the sun
Author: Michael? Kupf Miller
Content introduction:
1July, 923, Kafka went to the Baltic Sea for recuperation. There, he met Dora, a 25-year-old female chef working in a Jewish children's resort. Diamanti, they fell in love at first sight. The two lovers came to Berlin together, took care of each other, and endured the torture of the following winter.
Recommended reason:
This novel describes a thrilling and touching love story. Contrary to the well-known Kafka myth, the author shows this literary master, who has been described and explained as a separatist and a despairing person, as a man who longs for love and pursues happiness.
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Small footprints under the beach
Author: Julian
Content introduction:
The story begins with a beach. Anna Duffy noticed that her little daughter walked a little wobbly and her feet turned inward. After a series of tests, the doctor diagnosed Tai Caliso as having hereditary diseases in infants. She just had her second birthday, but she only has a few months to live. This book is the story of this promise. If life can't add time, then inject time.
Recommended reason:
Small Footprints on the Beach is an autobiographical novel, from which readers can deeply feel the beauty and kindness of human nature while they are sad, and then wish all disabled children in the world a happy family life.
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A freak in a small town
Author: sherwood anderson
Content introduction:
Young reporter George? On the eve of Willard's trip to the metropolis to seek a brilliant life, many ghosts appeared like waltzes. Simple priests, young salesgirls, depressed hotel proprietress, mysterious doctors, ugly telegraphers and unmarried female teachers all tell different strange lives, which are like a poem and a dream.
Recommended reason:
"Small town freak" is Sherwood? Anderson's most famous work. This novel consists of 25 stories that took place in the small town of Winsburg. These stories seem to be independent of each other, but in fact they are inextricably linked. The author uses young reporter George? Willard, as an important clue running through the whole novel, portrayed many profound characters and explored their souls.
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love letter
Author: Shunji Iwai
Content introduction:
Love Letter begins with a misunderstanding of the same name and surname. Through the correspondence between two women, two precious loves are slowly displayed with affectionate brushstrokes. The author wrote an early memory that is gone forever. The beauty and sadness in the memory between the lines have become eternal treasures in the hearts of hundreds of millions of people.
Recommended reason:
Although I have experienced the baptism of years, my sincere feelings have not been erased. Life is short, but love is eternal.