Wang Wenxing, a professor of foreign languages at Taiwan Province Provincial University, is from Fujian. He was born in 1939 and grew up in Taiwan Province province. He is one of the founders of Modern Literature magazine, and has published books such as Family Changes, Fifteen Novels and People Returning to the Sea. In 2007, he received an honorary doctorate in literature from Taiwan Province Provincial University, and in 2009, he won the Taiwan Province Literature and Art Award. He studied in the novel writing class of the University of Iowa and got a master's degree. He mainly teaches novels at National Taiwan University and advocates intensive reading. So he spent half a year talking about Mansfield's dollhouse, which is the source of nine lectures.
Mansfield, the author of Toy House, was born in 1888 and died in 1923. She is British, but because she loves Russian culture, she thinks she is Russian in character. I first met this writer because of an article by Xu Zhimo-Mansfield, which was a mourning article written by Xu Zhimo after hearing the news of Mansfield's death. Later, I learned that Xu Zhimo is the only writer in China who has read Mansfield, although only once. Mansfield is the founder of New Zealand literature and a famous cultural feminist. Most of his works point to the living environment of women, such as Reception in the Garden, Happiness and In the Bay. Toy House is no exception. It mainly describes the communication between a group of students and the difficult situation of poor children in capitalist society.
Reading the book "Nine Lectures" is like a teacher giving you a lecture. There are original display, Chinese translation, question and answer, discussion and analysis. Almost every metaphor in the article is chewed out, and Professor Wang Wenxing's occasional questions are also very enlightening. After reading this book, you can probably understand how the novel is structured, how to choose words and make sentences, where the article is good, why to write it like this, and so on. In the process of reading Nine Lectures, I was deeply impressed by Professor Wang's explanation of toffee, the complex and simple expressions of the two sisters, and the echo and meaning of the last yellow light.
For example, the story about toffee, the original text is "a small door, painted with shiny yellow, like a thick toffee." Professor Wang appreciates this metaphor. Professor Wang said that a good metaphor should be similar and vivid. We can associate the color, shape, thickness and brightness of the toy door from the memory of toffee, so comparing the door to toffee is a good analogy. At the same time, the most important thing is that toffee belongs to children's world and is familiar to children. If jewelry is taken as an example, it does not belong to children's experience and is not a good analogy.
Another example is the little yellow light at the end of the text. Sister Elsie has been silent, timid and withdrawn in the whole article. In the present words, she is a little autistic, but in the last paragraph, Aisi not only made a move but also said a word-"She reached out a finger and stroked the feather on her sister's hat, showing a rare smile. I saw the little light. She said softly. Professor Wang explained that this passage has several meanings. First, my sister is not the same as before. Why? Because she is happy, the reason for happiness is that the lamp touches the beauty in her sister's heart; Second, the lamp symbolizes the goodness of human nature. Ji is willing to share toys with children from poor families, while Aisi is innocent. Third, the lamp is a symbol of beauty, and people can feel beauty regardless of wealth, wisdom and ignorance. In the process of watching, I think the lamp may also have the meaning of being alone in the middle of the night and appreciating each other, because Ji gets less love in the family than her sister, and Ai Xi also suppresses her inferiority for a long time, so although their classes are different, the situation is similar.
Apart from a few impressive explanations, I learned to read intensively, appreciate the essence of a book and learn how to appreciate and appreciate a book according to Professor Wang Wenxing's ideas.
Now it's fast food culture, and the internet is flooding from time to time. I read a few books in a few days, but how much did I really understand and master after reading them? I don't know if fast is slow and slow is fast? So sometimes you still need to calm down and feel and understand slowly. On the cover of "Nine Lectures", it says: "Read carefully, miss every word, and solve every word. A good novel is like math, every word is useful-even punctuation marks are useful. " This may be similar to the ancient saying that reading a book a hundred times has its own meaning. If you are always the same, how can you write an article with clear logic and witty remarks?
Let's take a look at how Professor Wang Xingwen's Nine Lectures is intensively read. After each translation, he will ask several questions for discussion, such as the color and placement of toys; Color matching of clothes, language movements of characters, etc. They should all ask why they write like this, what's the use, what's the significance for later writing, and so on. In the past, when reading novels, I would pay attention to the development of love and wonderful plots, but most of them hurried by in details and plot arrangements. If it wasn't recommended by others, I would definitely find this book unremarkable. After reading it, I feel very rough and simple. It is the layman who watches the excitement, and the expert who watches the doorway.
Chewing is not bad, slow is fast, and intensive reading and slow reading are also a way of reading and experiencing. Good articles are suitable for us to taste slowly, and let us experience the precipitation and fragrance of the years.