How do you feel about reading "Life"?

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Gao Jialin is also trapped in the city of desire.

It is said that it turned out to be fields with sunshine, air and clean water. If the seeds are sown and the weather is favorable, there will be rice, melons and fruits, and generations of ancestors will be born. Now, crops are no longer grown in the fields, but reinforced concrete is grown. They say this is the process of civilization. In addition to this one-third of an acre, we should have more. Yes, it’s called urbanization. So more and more Gao Jialin forgot about the fields and the place where his bloodline originated, and rushed to become a well-dressed city dweller.

Later, the city became fat and bloated. Its heavy breathing is tireless and shameless on the construction site where the tower crane is lifted high. The ridges of the fields have turned into office cubicles. The quality of the harvest has changed from the natural climate to the human climate. People are no longer concerned about the ins and outs of a wheat seedling, but the ups and downs of a stock.

Gao Jialin is no exception. Like Yongzhu in the movie "Happiness", an originally innocent and simple man, after getting tired of the simple life and love, left the land, left himself, and fled to the rolling world of mortals without hesitation.

He fled to the rolling world of mortals, and then fled to a road of no return crushed by vanity. When he began to become the center of attention in the new world, and when he accepted the pursuit of a fashionable and passionate city lady from a distinguished family, his real life came to an abrupt end. So when the prosperity and prosperity were extinguished, he realized what happiness was. However, nothing in this world will lead to mercy because of repentance. When he woke up and looked back, that kind and tolerant homeland was already a place he could never return to. The kind girl who cooked rice and washed clothes for him has also given up her tears and married someone else.

Lu Yao said that Gao Jialin’s story is not over. However, it also seemed to make people see the desolate end of his life.

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The German literary theorist H.R. Jauss mentioned in his book "Toward Reception Aesthetics" that a literary work is not independent of itself and adapts to each era. Each reader offers the same perspective on the object. It is not a monument that metaphysically demonstrates its transcendental nature. It is more like an orchestral score, which constantly obtains new responses from readers during its performance, liberating the text from the material form of words and becoming a separate existence.

Lu Yao's "Life", when it meets readers again twenty years later, still has the weight of shocking people's hearts. It is precisely this kind of human passion that has not been washed away by time. History will change as time goes by, but the world will continue to be cold and clean after you. Everyone here is a very different Gao Jialin, wandering, stumbling, and getting lost at the crossroads of life, and then heading towards the phantom road of no return.

What is happiness. If you were the monarch of a country, would you choose to live like a piece of green bricks in the vast free world, or build tall buildings in a humble manner in a cramped and crowded capital city?

There are no traffic lights on the road of life. At the next intersection, do you know which direction to go?

The train of the world is indeed running too fast. Breaking away from all concepts, all beliefs, and all standards, values ??are all blurred. Some people felt sad after being suddenly thrown down by the speed, while others were still in danger in the bumpy car. This speed is really mind-blowing. As a result, everyone began to fear and expose this train that was racing out of control, and began to criticize Bourgeois' alienation of human nature.

However, after all, he is a son of a modern city with good clothes and fine food. Being immersed in the whirlpool of metropolitan singing and dancing day and night, even if you are tired of its deformity and absurdity, how can you achieve complete abandonment and resistance. As a result, Gao Jialin continued to linger. We are still immersed in the intricate intertwining of Chinese and Western cultures, and we never tire of longing for a better life. We dismantle and reconstruct the twisted life that we once laughed at and reviled, denigrate and practice it at the same time. Just like the end of a drunken party, many people long to retreat to the mountains and forests to embrace nature, live by the moonlight, tea trees and wheat fields, and never care about the wind and rain of the world. However, when he wakes up the next day, he will still go to the battlefield alone and continue to respectfully offer cigarettes and wine to the person who has his body and soul split in pieces.

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The home where the soul can return has long been burned. In our homeland, we are all displaced travelers. Even if we escape from the bright city, we still have nothing to rely on.

So after betraying the mother’s sewing, betraying the father’s sincere family teachings, betraying the poor wife’s simple meals, betraying the green bricks and green tiles of the hometown, we do not feel that we are a weak and weak life form. , the cold and selfish depravity of human nature is a heretical existence. We all think that we have an indestructible will and can maintain inner peace and indifference in the chaotic world. This kind of self-deception and deception becomes an eternal cycle of using lust to offset actions.

In fact, in this city of desire, we and Gao Jialin are always in a strange state of separation and overlap. Each of us occupies the other's position, but we are constantly lost, and we can never find our own position. Thus, their respective exiles were completed on the road of search. The body and soul are always misaligned, because there is always a phantom flying high in the air between them. The name of this phantom is desire, and it eliminates the distance between the true self and the self.

Extreme beauty is destructive. Desire is like this, it always pulls away while engaging, allowing us to content ourselves with its powerful existence and dissolve ourselves over and over again. We admire it so much because it is just as cruel as we can bear. And when it destroys us, it is so dismissive and calm. Let us unconsciously fall into that unknown dimension without forgetting to turn around and praise it.

How ridiculous. The ultimate pursuit of human beings is happiness, but human nature is dissatisfied. It is said that happiness is the pleasant feeling after people's desires are satisfied. Therefore, a life controlled by desire is destined to be unhappy.

Abstinence or misfortune, this is the eternal topic left by the author to us. Blue bricks and blue tiles or tall buildings and mansions, this is the path in life that each of us must choose. In the last chapter of the novel, Lu Yao wrote this passage: A person should have ideals and even fantasies, but he must not abandon real life and blindly pursue things that cannot be obtained in the world. Because this kind of blind pursuit, once it falls, will in turn bring great pain to people, and even destroy people's lives.

Gao Jialin’s life is undoubtedly tragic. But when we cover the curtain, we should cheer.

Rejoice, you still have time to choose your life. After all, we are not doomed characters.