Why should you read this book? ——"The Moon and Sixpence"

? At first, I couldn't read it at all. This book is as boring as "La Traviata", "The Elegance of the Hedgehog" and many other books. It is still a narrative, describing a person's life. I don’t like this approach, it’s bland and the narrative is over, as if it has nothing to do with us anymore.

?I didn’t finish reading it until this morning, and then I couldn’t help but search for the masterpieces of Paul Gauguin (the prototype of Strickland), hoping to get some of the same experiences and feelings as him. , but this time it was successful. Compared with my previous understanding of paintings, now with the residual warmth of my work, I finally felt a little strange when I looked at the paintings, as if there was a little bit of excitement in my soul, but I couldn't tell it. .

Don’t worry, after reading my article, you won’t know the outline or the outline of the entire book. I just don’t want you to feel like you spent five minutes reading this book. If it were me, I wouldn’t be very interested in reading it. Anyone who knows me knows that I hate spoilers the most, which will make me unable to get interested in understanding them at all, well, you know!

Therefore, many people are talking about the moon and sixpence. The moon represents faith, dream, and soul pursuit, and sixpence is material life. You must know that you can follow the moon without giving up sixpence. We mostly look up, then pick up the sixpence, then look up again, and then leave.

? Even if you hear this description, you will have great admiration and admiration for this person. Before I read about 80 years old, I thought he was a selfish, arrogant, arrogant, and selfish man. He abandoned his wife, killed Mrs. Stroeve, destroyed an originally happy and beautiful family, and repaid kindness with revenge without any regrets!

In the end, I realized that what he gave up was not the sixpence, but the seven emotions and six desires. Those human nature, rationality, and sensibility were all gone with him. He must get whatever he thinks is beautiful, even his wife's body. Because he wants to create, all beauty can only be revealed through his hands. Whether you ignore it or rebuke it, it really doesn't matter. His hardship is more like a habit. Even if there is a tempting meal and a soft leather sofa in front of him, he will not take another bite or sit for a while. He can even go to the corner and sit on a hard-backed chair without armrests.

In his later years, like a Chinese hermit, he retired to the mountains and forests. He allowed the disease to progress because he knew he would never recover. If you ask for medical treatment, the doctor will definitely ask him to take medicine and rest. You know that this is equivalent to killing him.

There is only one person who cares about him, the seventeen-year-old girl who married him when he was in his fifties, Atta. Atta said that he never complained about his fate and never lost his courage. Until the last moment, he remained calm and calm. He asked Atta to promise him that after she buried him, she would set fire to the house and burn it down, leaving not a single branch left, and wait until it was completely burned before leaving. Even though Dr. Kutras advised her that these were works of genius, we had no right to let humans lose them. She still lit the kerosene resolutely. Because she promised him.

What I can’t forget the most is what Strickland said every time he gave away his painting. Although you think it is of no use now, you will know it later. I hope it can bring happiness to others. Good luck to you. Every artist cannot predict the value of their works given by future generations during their lifetime, but they have a firm belief in beauty and firmly believe that those who receive donated paintings will pass on their works!

Of course, every work has more than just the halo of the protagonist. What moved me was the woman who looked like she had stepped out of Chardin's painting - Mrs. Stroeve. She made housework a ritual and gained moral significance. Dexterov, with his absurdity, gave the pastoral a strange note, like an unmodulated dissonance, but which made it more modern and human, like the vulgarity of a solemn occasion. Jokes, intensifying the poignant quality of beauty. And Dr. Abraham, the moment he saw the Pressure Mountain Dagang for the first time, it was like an apocalypse. His heart seemed to be grabbed by something, and he was suddenly filled with joy and a wonderful sense of freedom.

He felt as if he had returned home and suddenly made up his mind to live here for the rest of his life.

In addition, there are many more wonderful words to amaze you. Maugham's description makes the emotions hidden in the heart emerge, just like watching "Loving Van Gogh - The Mystery of the Starry Night". You seem to be the person in the painting, having participated in their lives, leaving behind the slightest trace. ? Paul Gauguin, a French Post-Impressionist painter and sculptor, is known as the three great masters of Post-Impressionism together with Van Gogh and Cézanne.

Gauguin was born in Paris, France. He regarded the essence of painting as something independent of nature, as a creation of experience in memory, rather than as a creation through repetition as is generally believed. Things in perceptual experience obtained directly from sketching. Compared with most artists of his generation, his explorations were influenced by primitive art to a greater extent. In particular, he was extremely obsessed with the customs and customs of tropical islands in the South Pacific, which seemed to come from his family background and upbringing. Got to the bottom of it.

Although this book is not entirely true to Gauguin’s life and personality, it is precisely what brought Gauguin’s outstanding talent and extraordinary courage to the attention of the world, including his experiences and paintings. ?As for why you should read this book, I think you won’t know until you finish reading it!

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