Monster: The world is so strange that everyone has a "monster" in his heart.

0 1 After thinking for a long time, the word "monster" is more than wonderful!

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Yanbeitang has produced another new work. It is no exaggeration to say that this time is beyond my expectation, but it is also reasonable, as touching as the previous works. The Monster published this time is a collection of short stories, which is a collection of many super-powerful big coffees from Douban, Zhihu and Weibo. With 10 unique stories, it opens the box of absurd world for us and brings us mixed experiences.

I think the collection of short stories is not as grand as novels, and each story is only 1000 words at most, so I guess it will not be as full and fascinating as novels in plot description and characterization. Unexpectedly, however, the 10 stories in Monster show 10 wonderful stories respectively, which vividly show the madness and truth of 10 monsters. Not only is the text delicate and profound, but the description is also extremely in place, and the length is short and pithy, which makes people think deeply after reading it. That kind of reading impression is really hearty and memorable.

Why do different stories fall under the theme of "monster"? This book describes itself as an alien monster who came to the earth, collecting stories of fantasy and reality, so as to build a bridge between fiction and reality and reflect on reality with absurdity. This formulation is quite novel. Monster is the channel connecting the reality and fantasy world, and the story becomes a shining star.

But I personally feel that apart from this propaganda angle, the theme of this book is "monster" and "reality" is "inner". All the stories seem to have some fantastic colors, but they never leave the in-depth discussion of "humanity", "desire", "morality" and "soul". In other words, the "monster" can also be an external illusion, or it can be another kind of comparison between the inner distortion and the greedy release of human nature.

The theme is rich, the story is far-fetched, and unexpected things are behind. ...

Let me talk about my favorite works first. The first one, the protagonist, impressed me deeply. The author writes beautifully, describes the ancient style vividly, and the most important suspense setting is also in place. You can't guess the next step, and you are unconsciously led by the author's words.

Jianghu stories have their own meaning of drunkenness. In a place where martial arts masters emerge one after another, it is natural to have swords and shadows and rivers and lakes grievances. When we thought we finally saw the final protagonist of the story, we suddenly found that there was no protagonist at all. And if you think about it carefully, this semi-open ending, which is interlocking but doesn't give you the truth, is extremely interesting and wonderful. Basically, you want to say that "monsters" are free from people's hearts. "There are no heroes in this world, and those so-called martial arts will always become insignificant after another protagonist appears."

Another work I also like very much is "We Ghosts" in Monster, with novel theme and ingenious conception. This story describes a fantasy world. People there will not disappear after death, just like sleeping, and then become a new kind of person, called "body double" When you stare at this body, body double, you will become a different person. In short, the more body double you have, the greater your personality, ability and potential, which is similar to "multiple personality split". If a person can separate many bodies, the richest man will live into a super IP.

Then the story revolves around a family of three. My son is getting married and my in-laws are rich. In order to be worthy of another girl, you must prepare a "double number" that is evenly matched with it. So the couple began to argue whether the father of the child or the mother of the child should "die", thus becoming the son's body double.

Originally, this fictional world seemed very harmonious and beautiful. Having one more body, body double has given me more love and strength, which is good. However, when I saw it, I felt something was wrong. When my parents sacrificed everything for their children, instead of satisfying and equal love, they got endless selfish desires and greed.

Anyway, I don't think this virtual world is beautiful, just as the father of the man insists on being a natural person and opposes and denounces the physical body double. I can't understand the essence of this kind of soul companionship. Because people are human because we have no right to deprive others of their lives, and we are not qualified to replace others' happiness with our own happiness. If so, people in this world have become "monsters". After a long time, they will inevitably lose the truest emotional and moral bottom line of human beings.

The two stories mentioned above are actually just a small corner of the whole book, and it is conceivable that the whole book is powerful. Readers who like ancient martial arts, doomsday themes, sci-fi suspense and other types are sure to find their own places, and some stories with themes are also very novel and attractive, and the topics involved are within our reach in daily life.

For example, modern science and technology, online games, computer hackers, moral banks, and now the more popular "grave defense" ... By snooping on other people's privacy, the murderer is finally snooped and invisible; Playing APP software can also dominate the society, but it cannot be absolutely fair; In the game, I dream of playing small monsters, but I still can't resist the ambition of big players; Zombie games, either you die or I die, test not only conscience. See, just looking at the theme is already a feast, not to mention that there are more surprises than this when you dig down carefully.

Monster is at home, I hope you and I won't get into trouble.

I think the most difference between Monster and similar works on the market is that, although the brain burns constantly and the writing is strange, it has risen to a deeper level because it tells the story with heart and contrasts the truth with strangeness. It is said that it embodies humanistic care. In fact, it is more vivid to use this metaphor to satirize a social situation and to use different styles of stories to reflect the determination.

Finally, I want to talk about my real feelings: living in a materialistic society, we may unconsciously become a strange and neurotic "monster", but in different ways. Some people are regarded as unsociable older men and women because they do not participate in the general happiness of all beings; Some people are regarded by colleagues as strange guys who have the ability to have no emotional intelligence because of their personality and self in the workplace. In a word, we can't live without society, but we also have some specific quirks and quirks because of society.

Before, there was not a popular saying on the Internet, "We are all little monsters, and one day we will be killed by the just Altman." Therefore, so many stories and so delicate words may just tell us how to reconcile with ourselves and others when we become monsters, so as to obtain spiritual redemption and save ourselves from becoming "monsters".