"Disillusionment" is a long tragedy of critical realism written by Balzac. Today I have compiled a sample article about my reading experience on disillusionment for everyone. You are welcome to borrow it and study it. Let’s take a look together!
Reading experience on disillusionment 1
Balzac’s Disillusionment, a book, comes out It's hundreds of years old, and like Shakespeare's plays, his writings are immortal. Among the similar literary works I have read, there are very few that can surpass Balzac in terms of writing, profundity, logic, etc. After reading his book, it is suddenly easy to find the weaknesses or shortcomings of other books. The rendering of the scene description is insufficient or superfluous, or the character description is not deep enough, or the plot development transition is not smooth, or the characters are too perfect and unrealistic, etc. Balzac was a literary giant. He seemed to be born to write novels. His mind seemed to be filled with countless stories and people, and he could easily transfer them to paper.
As for the novelist I admire most, he would be at the top of the list, but his paunchy appearance makes me always want to find his shortcomings, so I read some of his books and found out after reading them, If this person lived in today's era, he would be an all-rounder, the Leonardo da Vinci of the novel world, a genius encyclopedia. The fields he covers are many and complex, and there is a world in each book. Each world is different, including nobles in the mountains, small people in the city, a deformed family, and a small hotel. Through different characters, he forms an independent puzzle piece of each world he depicts. And when these puzzle pieces are put together, it becomes a human world. I often can't believe that a person can have such creativity. Lu Yao has spent all his energy writing "The Ordinary World". However, Balzac has countless works handed down from generation to generation. He single-handedly created a human comedy and also... Is there any greater miracle than this?
I have seen Pan Guangdan’s psychological analysis of Feng Xiaoqing before. If I were to analyze Balzac, he would probably be a dreamer whose brain is filled with imagination. But in fact, he wrote to pay off debts and support his family. Money is indeed the biggest motivation. Perhaps the temptation of money is a devil to others, but to him it is the incarnation of the Muse.
In fact, for me, the book "Disillusionment" is a bit long and the characters are unattractive. There are two types of people I hate the most, one is someone with superficial vanity, and the other is shallow-tempered. Immature people. Lucien first occupied the first category, his vanity was too strong, and his background could not support his vanity. He is beautiful, but beauty has no temperament and connotation. It is really more uncomfortable than ugliness. All that I could see was the brightness on the surface and the filthiness on the inside of that world. Like Lucien, I couldn't see many things. I can somewhat understand his ignorance and failure, but I cannot forgive his stupidity, lack of repentance and arrogance. If a person is not fully prepared and relies on innocence and appearance, will the world accept him? Many of the things I already know are not as obvious and exaggerated as in the book, but I cannot agree more with many of the views. A person with good quality will not get more respect than a person with poor quality. This has become a poisonous chicken soup. Stuff is the truth we are escaping from. Treat people sincerely and trust others. This kind of self is ridiculous and pitiful, cunning, swaying, and gossiping. Such people are more likely to gain a place in society. Once they rely on various unfair means to gain status, they will not be able to survive unless they encounter something more despicable. If someone exposes him, who will care about what he has done? This is the case in this society. Many times he does not want to admit it and hopes to create an ideal society for himself, but in fact it is just a moth to the flame. Being disillusioned with your ideals and turning into a butterfly are all choices you often face when you are young. At first, I thought Lucien was irritating, incompetent and weak-willed. Later, I thought, isn't he just a typical example of the ambitious and pleasure-seeking young generation created by the author? When reading, I didn't think that I would be as self-righteous as him, step by step. Being led into a pit of fire, if you think about it carefully, if you were in it, would you be able to emerge from the mud without being stained?
I recently read the Chronicles of the Kingdoms of the Eastern Zhou Dynasty, and I remembered that Lao Tzu once said that a small country with few people must be governed by inaction. The so-called "make the people die again and not move far away. Although there are boats and carriages, there is nothing to take advantage of. Even though there are armored soldiers, , Nothing to say..." When I first read it, I thought it was very beautiful. The people settled down in their own homes, stopped fighting to cultivate their careers, and everyone was indifferent and had few desires. It was really a great unity. But among the countries in the Spring and Autumn Period, which small country did not survive by relying on the big country, and the big country repeatedly used the small country to establish its authority in order to dominate. After reading these few sentences of Lao Tzu, I realized that Lao Tzu's idealism was truly unimaginable at that time. It is not surprising that it finally became a Taoist classic about attaining enlightenment, becoming an immortal, and ascending to heaven in the daytime. It can also be seen that the so-called distance between the ideal and the world is difficult to bridge in any era. We cannot live without ideals, but we must distinguish between ideals and fantasies. Those who can do this must distinguish, at least, clearly about yourself, society, the people you associate with, the present, the future, and human nature. In short, the world is so sophisticated, and you yourself What is your foundation? Can you adapt to the shell of society? Are the people you make friends with trustworthy? Do you know the current situation? Are the choices and solutions for the future clear? Do you have enough understanding of human nature?...
You won’t get far by relying on innocence and cleverness, although I don’t want innocence to become a negative word from the bottom of my heart. But this book not only makes naive a bad word, but also makes the title of poet shallow, especially those incomprehensible verses. Maybe it is because the Chinese aesthetics cannot be appreciated, maybe it is because Balzac is not good at writing poetry, In short, it has no sense of beauty and is filled with all the vanity and self-righteousness of an ignorant young man. Let's look at the poem written by Edgar Allan Poe: "The fairies took off their veils and rose up one after another, their faces whitened and their eyes blank." Although it cannot be appreciated in translation, at least it creates a terrifying and dark atmosphere.
The book may say that I carry too many joys and sorrows, helplessness, useful and useless thoughts. You can see thousands of worlds through me, some are beautiful and some are dirty, but there is no one world. It’s real. The real world is in front of you, but you tell me that you can’t bear it. I turned you into a poet. Everything can be transformed into elegant words. You see the ugliness of others, but you don’t know where the ugliness comes from. , and avoid them as a poet, despise them, and in the end you may become them. Contempt for evil is evil itself, and sympathy for evil is the origin of good. Compassion is not forgiveness, but understanding the sorrow of being human.
Disillusionment Reading Experience 2
This is the first time I read such a thick novel. Balzac took great pains to describe the environment and made everything clear and unsubtle at all. Reading "Disillusionment" is like reading a martial arts novel, and the struggle in the press and publishing world is thrilling. However, most martial arts movies give people a satisfying ending. The good guys get their revenge, gain fame or go into seclusion, and the villains always die at the end because of the readers' demands. It's full of romanticism. Balzac is a master of realism, without any dreams or hopes. No matter how worried you are, you have already seen the ending of the good people (Bazac is a writer with strong moral values). The outcome of the struggle is that the bad guys use cunning to obtain the inventions of the good guys, and then they become prosperous, but the good guys say: That's it, we are not business material. I feel heartbroken every time I think of David's hard-earned invention being taken over by the Ku brothers. But the fact can only be this. In the real society we live in, just like the novel, artists, scientists, and poets, their purity and single-mindedness make them incapable of dealing with the social structure. To deal with it requires shrewdness, Cunning, selfish, and depraved by Balzac.
Some noble souls refuse to fall, such as the small group of Atez, who live a tolerant and restrained life in their own small circle, but forbearance is tantamount to committing suicide every day. This sentence is Barr's What Zach said is more in line with existential theory. After the 19th century, human beings' desire to break free from moral shackles has reached its peak.
In order to avoid criticism, we can neither ask whether moral regulations are useful, nor can we say that their existence is reasonable. So, why do moral values ??exist?
Or it is just a need and cannot be appraise.
(Kundera said that uniform moral concepts will only destroy people's individuality. Balzac himself also said that greed and selfishness are the truest elements of human nature. Is what he criticized what he suspected?) So, Balzac Do the propaganda of Tolstoy, the preaching of Tolstoy, and the sarcasm of Hugo go against the famous saying "Life is just a play, why do you need to be too involved in it" (Ba language)?
Scientists do Without becoming a scientist, a poet cannot become a poet, so there is disillusionment, which is also the killing of human nature. Therefore, it seems that there are always some people who have to sacrifice their own pursuits in order to achieve the success of others. This becomes Darwin's survival of the fittest and the survival of the strong. The endless evolution is just a natural law and does not seem to require morality.
Some people say (I have said this before): Maintain yourself without harming the interests of others. But this sentence is so hypocritical, it cannot withstand scrutiny, it is weak and just talk on paper, because in fact, other people are hell. There is an endless conflict between people.
What do the standards that most people are satisfied with and my heartache for David and Lucien prove? This belongs to the category of ethics, but it is also Schopenhauer's "eternal justice" ". It turns out that morality is not promoted and prescribed, but spontaneous. It has existed for centuries, such as Plato's discussion of justice.
Perhaps such advanced thinking will eventually lead to an answer, or perhaps there is no answer at all. In the end, Block did not prove the existence of God, and I cannot measure and analyze morality in a precise graduated cup. Zhang Ailing said that the world is chaotic and rich. Looking for answers is just a mental game assigned to some people by God when he is bored. Human existence is irrational and full of randomness and contingency.
Tracing back to the origin, what is the origin of human nature? Nietzsche’s egoism proves that morality is only a need for social development at every stage. Schopenhauer and the theory of nature’s goodness prove that justice exists spontaneously. Sartre, Beauvoir, Darwin and others also said that moral regulations are just a kind of restraint, and the conclusions are so contradictory but they cannot feel that each has its own truth. Perhaps it can be summed up as follows: goodness, justice and egoism originally existed spontaneously at the root of human nature, but after a person was born, due to the influence of the environment, the two conflicted and fought, and the crowd began to fall on both sides. , or become moral, or become exclusive egoists. In order to maintain balance, society began to formulate rules and regulations, hoping that the exclusive part would be tolerant. When the rules developed to a certain extent and restricted people, some people stood up to criticize morality and once again showed the other side of human nature.
Disillusionment reading experience 3
"Disillusionment" is a long tragedy of critical realism by Balzac. Its success, like Balzac's other works such as "Uncle Bangs", is an exposure of the evils and class contradictions of French society in the early nineteenth century. In my opinion, "Disillusionment" is the darkest of Balzac's "Human Comedy". In this article, I will focus on my views on “the limits of sin”—that is, “what counts as sin” and “what are the limits of sin.”
Let’s take a look at the main line of the story first: David and Lucien are close friends. David’s father is a very stingy and vicious printing factory owner, and Lucien is the son of a pharmacy owner. They each had lofty ideals: David wanted to invent low-cost, high-quality paper, and Lucien wanted to enter the literary world. But Lucien fell in love with Madame de Bargeton and followed the lady to Paris, but was eventually abandoned. Under the temptation of reporter Rosdow, Lucien left a small group of noble young intellectuals and joined the corrupt press. He was eventually ruined by his debauchery and the conspiracy of his old lover. On the one hand, David was exploited by his father, on the other hand, he competed unequally with his opponents, and eventually lost his invention patent rights.
You may find that in the stories narrated by the author, some characters are particularly heinous in their hypocrisy, greed, and cruelty. But if you carefully summarize and analyze it, you will find that except for David, Eve and a few intellectual youths, all people have an ugly side. For example, Rosteau's duplicity and profit-seeking developed to the point where he could change from supporting Lucien to jealous of his talent in one minute.
But he also has a human side, which confides in Lucien his contempt for the corrupt press. In his hardships, he also prepares weapons of "struggle" for Lucien - beautiful clothes that symbolize status and win the favor of ladies. There are also people like Coralie, Camusot, etc. who are both good and evil. But there is another group of people that Balzac used to dress up with higher intelligence and different personalities. They are pure conspirators - Goande, the father of David, Pheno, etc. In the face of these countless evil people, You will have doubts about the definition of crime - do you have to be guilty if you inadvertently suppress the genuine writing and investigation genius because you need to write articles against your will to make a living? - Don't we support freedom of speech? Is it possible to rise to the top by competing for the hearts of aristocrats? Is it a disgrace? - It does no harm to innocent people. On the other hand, our relevant laws and regulations are really not enough to deal with a society where "human beings are inherently evil". And when law enforcers and those being enforced undermine the rule of law at the same time, and when morality becomes the weapon of false moralists, laws that are not strict enough will become ridiculous props that only hurt people who still have some conscience. What counts as sin? This is not a legal issue. Obeying the law is just a wall of sin. In more directions, it is beliefs, public opinion, and traditional morality that block the sin of human nature. Of course, they can sometimes be a disservice. Therefore, sin is any behavior or even thought that violates personal integrity. If your integrity no longer exists and your morality has become an empty shell, then if you don’t need to take action, you will be full of evil.
What about the limit of evil? Many characters were mentioned above, so Rosto’s evil is less serious than Goande’s? But the types of evil cannot be divided based on class or group. For example, Mrs. Barridon's evil is the frivolity and tyranny of the nobles. She directly led to the disasters of Lucien and David. But on the other hand, the proletarian Sericai's treacherous and treacherous nature is purer than Mrs. Barhidong's. Only by looking at the nature, results, and social impact can we discover the "richness" of the types of evil. You can also understand - there is no darkest, only darker.
"Disillusionment" uses the desolation of several young people to awaken the hearts and minds of every reader. It is cruel, allowing us to watch the vicious game of fate; it is also compassionate, using degradation to call for sublimation.
Disillusionment Reading Experience 4
I have wanted to read this book by Balzac for a long time, but I have not taken action until now. In fact, I wanted to read this book mainly because of the title of the novel. I don’t know why I have a sincere fondness for the word disillusionment. The disillusionment of ambitions in the story drew me deeply into the whirlpool of thought.
In this book, I saw the struggle of little people, the desire of every young man for fame, the individuals who lost their souls in the bustling city, and the relationship between people. The dedication and love between them. This is a warning book written to every young person, and it is also a microcosm of the real society, allowing us to understand life through sighs and sighs. This is another history of blood and tears of the struggle of the poor people. They climbed up covered in blood, but in the end they were despised and rejected by the cruel aristocrats and bourgeoisie.
From a personal point of view, this story revolves around two young people from other provinces with ideals. They have a deep friendship but have completely different personalities. David is upright and kind, down-to-earth, brave and strong, and can sacrifice everything for his friends and relatives; Lucien is emotionally passionate, yearning for a life of luxury and wealth, smart but pretentious, and likes to get something for nothing, which is destined to be a different life path for them. David stayed in the provincial land and married the equally ordinary and kind-hearted Eve. In order to provide a comfortable life for his family and friends, he devoted himself to studying the improvement of the paper making process. Lucien, with the help of the nobility and his handsome appearance, entered Paris and entered the luxurious life he dreamed of.
Lucien first met Mrs. de Barridon and experienced his first betrayal of David when he was invited because of his appearance. When Lucien excitedly ran to David and said that Mrs. de Bargeton agreed to meet him, his ambition-based thought was whether his future would be smooth sailing. Undoubtedly, in the face of ambition, friendship has taken a secondary position, and desire has eroded his emotions, conscience and even soul.
Lucien's second betrayal of David was when he and Madame de Bargeton fled the provinces and went to Paris. He was so eager and desperate that he abandoned his sister Eve and David's wedding to pursue his Paris dream. At this time, he had already placed himself at the center. Lucien's third betrayal of David was when he became a reporter, when Paris was all-powerful and reveling in wealth. When he spent money like water and became a complete playboy, he ignored the efforts of David, Eve and his mother, and enjoyed the prosperity and luxury of Paris alone. Lucien's fourth betrayal of David was when he was extremely depressed and signed a promissory note of three thousand francs in David's name. This is because he only considered his own predicament, and did not think about David's situation at all. His self-esteem and vanity bound his concern for his relatives.
I say this not because I think Lucien has nothing to gain, but he has been accepting the contributions of his mother and sister since he was a child, and has developed a self-centered habit. He is eager to get rid of his poor life and humble social status, so when his ideals conflict with reality, his entire thinking and actions become extremely confusing, so much so that he does not hesitate to sacrifice others to solve his own crisis. But after the sense of crisis passed, human nature and conscience continued to flog his soul, making him trapped in the quagmire of regret and unable to extricate himself, and tried every means to make up for the damage. When he desperately wanted to change his surname and finally faced Mrs. de Bargeton's show of weakness, he thought of Coralie's love and devotion and rejected his former lover; when he and Coralie had reached the end of their rope, He still did not betray the small group that helped each other in times of difficulty, and cried to seek help and forgiveness from Atez; when he realized how much disaster he had brought to David, he was eager to take responsibility and even wanted to He wanted to die, and eventually sold his body and soul to the secretary of a Spanish diplomat in exchange for fifteen thousand francs to make up for his mistakes. He is just such an ordinary person, not strong enough, full of desire, but a little immature after all. There is actually a shadow of Lucien in each of us, right?
We thought Balzac would Give David the most perfect ending because he is such a kind and ideal man, but this is not the case. This veritable inventor finally developed a low-cost papermaking process, but was designed by the Kuantai brothers to take away the fruits of his hard work, which made people sigh and be angry. Balzac's novel is so real. He used this imperfection to reveal the decline of the feudal system and the rise of the bourgeoisie after the French Revolution. In that social environment, the competition between people became increasingly fierce. How could a person with no ambition like David have any chance of winning? Fortunately, David and Eve were not crazy about money and fame. They accepted this fact and quietly ran their own property in the countryside.
In addition to personal experience and social environment, we also see the commercialization of literature and art and the shady phenomenon of journalism in this book. As Lucien's introductory tutor, Lousteau led him step by step into the depths of the dark river of journalism and unveiled the news for us. Lucien won his place in the press with his good looks and excellent eloquence, and then under the guidance of Lousteau, he played with words and attacked his enemies and even friends. With articles of attack or praise, they can make printers, booksellers, theater owners, actors and even the government surrender. They can determine the sales of a book, a person's future, and a store's profits.
No one paid attention to the novels and poetry collections of Lucien, an unknown person who had just arrived in Paris. However, Lucien, who was a powerful figure in the press, used a pen to get the printer to obediently pay him three thousand francs. Lucien, who was down and out in Paris, was abandoned by the noble lady, but Lucien, who was dancing with his pen, forced Madame Bargeton and the Count de Chatelet to sit on pins and needles. Lucien, who was running into obstacles everywhere, felt that the small group was talented and ambitious. Lucien, who was tempted by the power of the pen, felt that the small group was too pedantic.
Lucien's ambition came into contact with the luxurious life and illusory reputation, and the huge power given by the news confused his eyes, so his self-esteem was completely inflated! This is the power of news, in that era of rapid development of the bourgeoisie, In an era when the journalism industry lacked regulation, those who controlled the news controlled public opinion, and those who controlled public opinion also controlled status and money. How difficult it was for those who owned these to keep their own ethics and standards! This is also true. Lucien's end was doomed. He did not understand the methods of the nobility, nor did he understand the interests of the struggle between partisan newspapers, and eventually became cannon fodder in the war.
The collusion between the printing and press circles has resulted in many truly good literary works being ignored and criticized, while books of insufficient quality have ascended to the heights of literature. This is the tragedy of the times, and it is also a tragedy for the history of literature and art. tragedy. The press needs freedom, but also regulation; literature needs innovation, but also truth; ideals need struggle, but also reason.
Disillusionment reading experience 5
"Disillusionment" is a book worth recommending to young people who have just entered society. I like it very much. First, it is Balzac's simple writing style. , the second is Balzac's mythical approach in dealing with the ending of Lucien.
Balzac is a great writer. There is no doubt that he occupies a very important position in the history of French literature. His "Petro Goriot" has been excerpted into Chinese middle school textbooks. Balzac engaged in many professions throughout his life, but unfortunately none of them were successful. He kept writing and left us with rich literary achievements - "Human Comedy", which more or less ultimately led to his death from exhaustion in writing. "Human Comedy" consists of 91 novels, divided into three parts: custom research, philosophical research and analytical research. "Disillusionment" is an important part of Balzac's "Human Comedy" series of novels, divided into three parts. The final fate of the protagonist Lucien is arranged in another book "The Honor and Disgrace of the Firework Girl" (also known as "The Rise and Fall of the Courtesan").
Among the several protagonists in "Disillusionment", I can't say who I like or dislike. I like David Sesha's hard work and blind love, but I don't like his overly accommodating friends. I like Eve's persistence in love and the woman's courage and ability she shows in times of crisis, but I don't like her overly accommodating her brother. I don't like Lucien at all, but I don't dislike him at all. Not only that, I can vaguely see some shadows of myself in his past.
No more thoughts, just excerpts of some classic philosophical sentences and vivid descriptions below, let Balzac speak for himself!
"Except for For those who are smart and have no other assets, time is their most valuable asset.
"In some people's hearts, people who are not in front of them always occupy the first place.
"You (Lucien) are high-sounding when you think about problems, showing that you are very noble; but when you do things, they are not quite legitimate... You can never be satisfied with being consistent with yourself. Even if it is absurd, It is better to think absurdly than to act decently.
"You (Lucien) feel compelled to say a wisecrack when you think of it, even if it makes your friends sad.
"Everything depends on opportunity. The most important thing is to have intelligence and be alone in a cold corner.
"The better the work, the less chance it will sell. An outstanding person is always one step ahead of the masses, and it will take a considerable time for his works to be appreciated by others before they become popular.
"Mohammed called the mountain to come over and said, "If you don't come, I will!"
"French idiom: Time is a great teacher.
"Florina was 16 years old and slender. Her beauty was like a bud in bud, appreciated only by an artist who prefers a manuscript to a finished picture. This charming actress had one of the most beautiful looks. He is full of delicacy, much like Goethe's Mignon
"As long as he can gouge out a pair of his "good" friend's eyes, he is willing to gouge out one of his own.
"The two little Vernus were as ugly as sores on trees.
"This type of woman (Coralie, Lucien's lover) can grasp the weakest point in a man's heart, and has a set of soft skills that cater to men's lazy habits. Their Strength comes from this point.
"Democritus (fifth century BC, Greek philosopher) said: Truth is hidden at the bottom of a well, unfathomable, and there is little hope of digging it out.
"Examples of poor sketches being corrected and turned into gold are always more meaningful than theories and criticism."