Literature has a great influence on all of us. Everything in life needs literature. For example, when you argue with someone, do you need to beat him with your fluent and proven language? Literature can purify the soul of all things, cultivate sentiment, constantly improve itself and create beautiful quality! Once upon a time, literature was the most fashionable topic in China. Whether the earliest Book of Songs or Lisao in the Warring States Period, literature has been an eternal topic for China people until the May 4th Movement. At that time, the fastest-selling magazines on the newsstand were People's Literature, Harvest and Novel Monthly.
But now, whether we admit it or not, literature has already become a minority topic. Driven by the realistic interests of "becoming famous early", many post-80s writers' impetuous psychology and profit-seeking desire overwhelmed their inner pursuit of literary spirit prematurely and became profit-making tools for publishers. Among them, the proliferation of plagiarism and imitation, the trend of homogenization, and the pattern of writing have made the article a mess and become a "bad book" with good sales but poor quality.
So, today, why does Bian Xiao suggest that you read more literary works at inappropriate times?
What is literature really about?
Before we talk about literature, let's talk about The Wolf of Wall Street, a famous American commercial film.
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Belfort is a glib stockbroker. Through telemarketing, he exaggerates the potential and prospects of low-priced stocks, lures investors to buy them, makes his stock company bigger and bigger, and attracts more and more young people to follow his sales creed.
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What can this story tell us?
I wonder if you have read How to Read Literary Books? According to its analysis method, you will see that this is a story of Faust trading with the devil.
/342 AC 65 c 10385343 f 0 bffee 898 13 b 07 ECB 808882？ X-BCE-process = image/resize, m _ lfit, w _ 450, h _ 600, limit _ 1/quality, q _ 85 In literature, in every version of Faust's trading with the devil, the protagonist has insatiable desires-comfort, wealth and power.
Just like the single mother in the movie, just like Faust, the demon belfort gave the single mother a way to get rich, but only if she gave up her soul and promoted low-priced junk stocks with him by unclean means.
For another example, Foster's book will tell you that this is a vampire story.
Come to think of it, belfort and his employees use lies to market. Aren't they just seducing the vampire count of "young women" Finally, they also fatten themselves by sucking each other's blood-putting their own desires, especially ugly desires, above the needs of others.
Don't always think that these "decadent stories in life" have nothing to do with us.
Think about it, isn't there a similar story around us?
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For example, you are financially strapped, but your friend recommended you a job that doesn't conform to your moral values;
At these times, we are all "Faust" seduced by the "devil".
Literature tells these stories that will last forever. They always appear in different forms, but their essence has never changed.
According to Thomas Foster, these eternal stories are actually limited-"Life and books are nothing more than several similar patterns".
Why is the traffic in the literary world so chaotic that there are "crashes" everywhere?
In Foster's view, it is because "there is only one story in the world":
To put it bluntly, there is nothing new under the sun. From the beginning, there is an eternal story about all kinds of human love and hate, which are black and white, and good and evil are clear. All the writings of later generations are only a reinterpretation of some of them.
Then why should we study literature?
How can reading literature help us?
/4a 36 acaf 2 edda 3 cc 5d 94c 1 e 90 AE 9390 1203 f 9282？ X-BCE-process = image/resize，m _ lfit，w _ 450，h _ 600，limit _ 1/quality，q _ 85。 The internet age is also an era of reading, but its fast food, fragmentation and entertainment have been criticized by many scholars and commentators. There are few readers of classic and serious works, and the market of literary classics and literary works is lacking.
First, literature is to explain life, so that our life is not confused.
Indeed, under the information explosion, there are too many things to read. Why study literature? Li Yongping said: "This may be a question that many people will ask. When I give lectures, students often ask me what literature is good for me. If you can say it, I'll do literary research? At this time, I will tell him that you can never do literature by measuring literature. "
Practical, fast, efficient and utilitarian reading is very common in today's era. Li Yongping said: "Literature is certainly useful, but its use is not so great, not short-term effect, not visible to the naked eye, promotion, salary increase, making money and so on. There is no mention of providing people with new skills. But its function cannot be ignored. In the past, literature played an important role in education both at home and abroad, such as The Book of Songs. People's moral, educational and spiritual growth basically comes from literary works. "
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Today, literature is no longer the most important channel of enlightenment and edification, but it has other important works.
Li Yongping said: "Literature is related to the soul. It is always discussing human existence, and it is not done in a didactic way, which will make people intoxicated and complete the sublimation of the soul. This sublimation is not immediate, but subtle. In fact, literature is often related to the education and spiritual cultivation of a nation. "
The role of literature in promoting national education and soul has been neglected, which is related to our past education methods, but the problem is that literature is irreplaceable in a sense, because other ways, political or moral, are not as effective as literature. A person who is truly influenced by literature has a different accomplishment, and his way of looking at life and the world will be richer. Because literature itself is an aesthetic, it is utilitarian, but it has changed a person from the deepest point. "