Defend memory

“Defense Memory” is finished, it is true and very good.

I didn’t know much about Russia before, and of course I don’t know much now. I don’t know any well-known movie stars or artists in Russia, let alone what they think about Russian literature. Of course, I have heard of Gorky and Ostrovsky, but none of their articles are even complete. Read it all.

My true understanding of Russian literature should start from “White Night”, which was written by the famous Russian writer Dostoevsky. The second is this “Defense of Memory”. The difference is that the former is listening to the latter. Look, but no matter what kind of form it leaves a touch. Regarding the latter, I didn’t know that it was a book about literature at first, and thought it was teaching learning methods or something. When I opened the book and found the truth and knew that it had more than 400 pages, I had no more reading. Interested, but I still read the book in 2 hours using speed reading. Like the author of this book, Lidya Chukovsky, the names of Russians in the book are a headache. In fact, the general meaning of the book is There is no connection, but how to say it, it may be the attraction of literature itself, I plan to read this book carefully, after reading the author’s representative work “Sophia Petrovna”, I immediately decided to finish reading It is very well written.

Part of the whole book is Lydia’s novels, such as “Sophia”, but most of them are her memoirs. The time of the story is basically the same as that of the Chinese Cultural Revolution. It is a disrespectful culture, or even no culture at all. The age when there was no humanity. There is persecution everywhere, an age where justice cannot be talked about. In such an age, when you talk about culture or literature, you can only have room for survival if you follow the voice. If justice is done, individual literature is written, and dark historical facts are recorded, it is simply true. Enemy with the “people” is nothing short of life. However, even in the dark, there is potential for light. Lidya is a person who guides the light (although in fact it is a way of recording the darkness): those in power do not want future generations to know the darkness of the previous generation, even if we have the right to know, we are also interested in knowing it. Then, those who record the darkness will definitely be targeted or even persecuted, and Lidya cannot avoid it, even though Old Chukovsky is very prestigious. When life is not free, there is surveillance everywhere, and the situation is constantly being excluded and persecuted, it is not easy to continue to struggle. Lidiya is fighting, even if she is expelled from the Writers Association, she cannot deprive her of the right to write.

It is very difficult for Lydia to clarify herself under the pressure of many rights, but she did it, but her innocence is only now understood by posterity, but what is the truth of the matter, believe Lydia or at that time The people in power in China all have a certain amount of encouragement for us. We must know that they are very good at using words to move people’s hearts and even change human nature, but the facts are already there.

If a writer cannot write, it is as cruel as a painter losing his eyes and a dancer losing his feet. However, it is unbearable not to allow the writer’s work to be published or to distort the writer’s literary work, but in Russia, in China, This phenomenon has happened.

In order to protect Russian literature and defend Russian culture, Lidya has been working hard. If those in power do not allow publication, they will find an underground publishing house. Her purpose is to give future generations a chance to know the past of the motherland and let the world understand the situation in Russia at that time.

It is a difficult task to defend the culture of the entire country with one person’s power, but she is voluntary. Although she has sacrificed a lot, sometimes she can’t even call herself a true citizen of the country. How to defend oneself is also useless. Too much resistance can relieve a moment’s temper, but who cares? It’s just to show the enemy a pitiful image of himself or a lingering death. Is such a writer very sad?

Are the characters in all novels abnormal? Are these abnormal characters an enlargement of the character in real life or are there such exaggerated people? The writer does not even have basic self-care ability except for writing. Maybe it’s not as good as a farmer. This is true in the novel and in reality. If she learns to cook noodles, she may have to be complacent for a while.

It was really annoying to read the pathological words written by Lidya at first, but how could I feel the real things without living in that era? (Most of the writers in her works are pathologically uneasy, Sometimes it can make people blur the novel and reality).

I thought that only Lidya was contending, but seeing so many writers in her memoirs, such as Pasternak, Brodsky, Solzhenitsyn, etc., you will be happy for a while, because you I feel that there are still many people who are working hard to defend the literature of the motherland. Of course it is gratifying. They are telling the truth. They are defending the right of future generations to understand the real right of the previous generation (even if the past was dark), but then think about it. , There are only a few people left in the whole country doing this kind of work, and they are still suffering from the enemy’s persecution from time to time. Charges of traitorousness.

But knowing that Lidya is still writing when she is 80 years old, how can we feel? If everyone can defend the real world and record the real history, whether it is light or dark, then we Is the society we understand now not what we understand now? Russia is the same, and China is also the same. Was that dark moment as we know it or worse? Only a few people know the truth, but they don’t have the right to spread it, especially It was in the celestial dynasty, and we didn’t have the right to know, but if we really dig, we will definitely gain something.

The eloquence and nonsense may not realize the true meaning of “Defense of Memory”.However, just like the great men in Lidiya’s works, everyone has a personality different from others, but they can still cooperate and share your feelings. Combining with my insights, it is good whether it is in harmony or inverse. I want to say that writers like Lidya Chukovsky are great, and “Defense of Memory” is worth reading.