Book list

I think loneliness is not loneliness, loneliness, emptiness, or boredom. Loneliness is a force, the force that unites life and the universe in distant places. When we are no longer afraid of loneliness, we can immerse ourselves in it when it strikes, savoring the great peace and bustle of that moment. Bukowski said: "If I am not alone for a day, I will become weak. I am not proud of loneliness, but I make a living by it."

Loneliness also comes in various forms, here is what I do Some of the books I have read are novels related to loneliness.

Each book is a string of lonely notes, sounding where life and the universe merge with each other.

Listen! ——

1. "Too Loud Loneliness" [Czech] Bohumil Hrabal

I am lucky enough to be alone, although I am never lonely, I am just alone Just, living alone in dense thoughts, because I am a bit arrogant, an arrogant element in infinity and eternity, and infinity and eternity may like people like me. ——"Too Loud Loneliness"

Bo Hrabal is a famous Czech writer. Milan Kundera said: "If anyone wants to name the era after the end of the Soviet occupation of Czechoslovakia, he must Call it the Age of Hrabal."

This book "Too Loud Loneliness" is Hrabal's most famous work. Its content is not a complete story like ordinary novels, but through the monologue of the protagonist Han Jia, it shows readers the world seen by a waste paper packer and his inner loneliness. Hrabal said: "I lived to write this book and postponed death for it."

This is undoubtedly a shocking and good book, but it is not easy to read. I think it should be related to the non-segmented, monologue-like language style of the book, and also to the author's cutting-and-splicing writing style - this book is more than just the experience of the prototypes of Hrabal and Hanjia in the waste paper recycling bin. , the author also added many other experiences of his, as well as his thoughts on the times and philosophy. As a result, this thin book has become a work of sufficient weight - a solid "magnum opus" packaged by Hanjia's press.

2. "One Hundred Years of Solitude" [Colombia] García Márquez

It can be expected that this city of mirrors will have all the parchments translated in Aureliano Babylon At that time, it was wiped out by the hurricane and eradicated from the memory of the world. Everything contained on the parchment will never be repeated from eternity to eternity, because the family destined to endure a hundred years of loneliness will not have a second chance to appear on the earth. ——"One Hundred Years of Solitude"

"One Hundred Years of Solitude", published in 1967, is recognized as the best work of Marquez and a representative work of Latin American magical realism literature.

"One Hundred Years of Solitude" describes the miraculous and magical experiences of seven generations of the Buendia family, while also showing the history of the prosperity, development and demise of the small town of Macondo for more than a hundred years. Marquez blended reality and fantasy to construct a novel with numerous characters, bizarre plots and magnificent colors. As the Nobel Prize citation said: "His novels use rich imagination to weave a world where reality and fantasy intersect, reflecting the life and contradictions of a continent.

3. "The Heart is a Lonely Hunter" 》 [US] Carson McCullers

Loneliness is absolute, and the deepest love cannot change the ultimate loneliness of human beings. The loneliness of despair is not so much the original sin as the original sin of the original sin. In the past years, he always felt that there was a certain subtlety and wisdom in this smile. Now he felt a kind of cunning and mockery. The weather was getting warmer, and the anxiety was slowly turning into fatigue. , a deep peace can be seen in him - "The Heart is a Lonely Hunter"

Carson McCullers is one of the most important American writers in the 20th century. She mostly writes about lonely people, and her description of loneliness is gloomy. "The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter" is McCullers' first novel.

The background of this story is a small southern town in the United States. There are two mutes in the town-Singer and Antonapoulos, who are always together. And one day, Antonapoulos left and entered the lunatic asylum. Singer was surrounded by people - he became people's listener, and people who were eager to talk always told their loneliness to the silent Singer. However, Singer was also lonely because Antonapoulos had been his soulmate. In the end Antonapoulos died in a lunatic asylum, and Singer also chose to commit suicide. By describing the seemingly absent same-sex love between two mutes and the living conditions of people in a southern town, this novel shows the ultimate loneliness that people in that crazy era could not get rid of.

In addition, McCullers's another novel "The Ballad of the Sad Cafe", also set in a southern town, is also worth recommending.

4. "The Loneliness of Prime Numbers" ? [Meaning] Paul Giordano

The older I grow, the more I feel that loneliness is an inevitable part of life, and that everyone is a sequence of prime numbers. A lonely but special existence. Perhaps, it can't be said to be special, just ordinary, or perhaps, "ordinary" is an exaggeration. We are all the lonely prime numbers, and we all bear the loneliness of the prime numbers. ——"The Loneliness of Prime Numbers"

The author of this book, Paul Giordano, is a doctor of particle physics, and "The Loneliness of Prime Numbers" is his debut book. Regarding the title of the book, the book explains: "Prime numbers can only be divisible by one and itself. In the infinite sequence of natural numbers, they are in their own position, like all other numbers, squeezed by the two numbers before and after them, but they But they are further apart from each other than other numbers. They are suspicious and lonely numbers."

The protagonists of the novel are two young people who have suffered from painful childhood trauma: Alice's childhood. She broke her leg in a skiing accident, and this pain will always accompany and affect her life; the childhood shadow in Mattia's heart comes from his twin sister, who he expelled in order to get rid of her mentally retarded sister. Lost in the park, it turned out that her sister was really lost, and Mattia felt heavy guilt about this.

The two lonely young people met. But their loneliness is somewhat different. Mattia lives in his own world and rejects the outside world; while Alice wants to integrate into the world, but feels excluded by the people around her. Mattia went to a university in Germany and separated from Alice, who married and divorced someone else. In fact, Alice has always loved Mattia in her heart, but she can't get closer to love.

"Which is more lonely: living in your own world and loving no one, or loving someone in your heart but never being able to get closer to love?"

5. "Loneliness and What It Creates" ?[American] Paul Auster

Loneliness, but not the state of being alone, for example, unlike Thoreau who exiled himself in order to find his own place, It is not the kind of loneliness that Jonah felt when he prayed to be rescued in the belly of the whale, but loneliness in the sense of retreat, not having to see himself, not having to see himself being seen by others. ——"Loneliness and What It Creates"

Paul Auster is one of the important contemporary American writers. "Loneliness and What It Creates" was published in 1982. It is an autobiographical novel by Paul Auster. This work expresses a kind of "loneliness in the sense of retreat" through the pursuit of his father and his own identity.

This book consists of two parts: the first part is "Portrait of an Invisible Man". As the title says, the author tries to reconstruct his life by constantly pursuing fragmented memories about his deceased father. Father - the portrait of this "invisible man"; in the second part, "Book of Memory", the author turns his attention to himself, who is also a father, discovering some accidents of fate through memory, and showing the ubiquitous loneliness, " Because only in loneliness and darkness can the work of memory begin."

6. "Because of Loneliness"? Jiang Xun

I want to hug you, but I have already. Without a body, I can only use my severed head to think about the meaning of hugging in the loneliness of this city, thinking about the idea of ??struggling to hug in the void.

——"Because of Loneliness"

"Because of Loneliness" is a collection of short stories by Jiang Xun. It is very different from his prose. The stories in it are all bizarre, full of blood and weirdness. imagery, and shows the dark side of human nature. Wang Dewei said: "Jiang Xun's novels are full of outrageous and strange things, which are eye-catching. But he actually describes the strange status quo one after another with a calm and calm writing style that is not surprising, and the tension created during this period, Remotely simulating a Kafka-esque situation."

Behind these stories that seem absurd at first glance and make readers restless, they also tell a kind of loneliness. "Because of loneliness, there are all kinds of cries and murmurs in the city. If we listen carefully, we can hear our own thoughts."