Reading‖ Enjoy "Snow Country" with heavy snowfall

I originally planned not to read new books recently, but to "ruminate" them.

Many articles teach people how to read ten lines in one glance and how to read a book every day. Is this really good? How many words can you read in ten lines at a glance? If you read a book in one day, how much will you remember the next day? I don't have the gift of photographic memory, and I can't learn any of these reading skills. I can only read every word with my eyes. After reading many books once, I have to read them a second and third time. I call it “rumination.”

But the urge to buy books always exists and does not break out from time to time. The little girl wanted to buy a book. With a shake of her hand, her own welfare was also put into the shopping cart.

When I received "Snow Country", the early winter sleet was falling hard, the temperature was very low, and the weather forecast said it would turn to heavy snow in the evening.

The next day, as expected, goose feathers were flying, covering the sky and the ground. Opening "Snow Country" at this time is really just right and has a unique taste.

In a sense, reading "Snow Country" is also considered rumination at this time. My first e-book experience was Snow Country. At that time, I thought it was still very cost-effective to use e-books to read novels. However, when I read halfway through the first page, I thought, "Hey, isn't this Miss Ye Zi! Going home? It's a cold day again." I couldn't continue reading. Tried several more times, still unable to continue. I just put it aside, and I have no chance of electronic (paper) books from now on.

"Snow Country" is Kawabata Yasunari's first novella and his most famous masterpiece. It was also one of the three novels mentioned by the award committee when he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature. It mainly tells the story of three encounters between dancer Shimamura and geisha Komako in the snow country.

Dao Cun arrived in Snow Country for his first vacation. There were not many geishas, ??so Komako was temporarily called to chat with him. Shimamura discovered that the beauty of this nineteen-year-old girl was exactly what he had been pursuing. So, he remembered her with one finger.

Dao Cun came to Snow Country again, and on the way he sat across from Ju Zi’s sick fiancé and Ye Zi who admired and cared for him. This is the scene at the beginning of the novel. When they met, Komako was already a geisha. "The hem of her clothes was spread out on the dark floor, giving people a cold feeling." When I saw Komako for the first time, "Although her clothes were a bit like a geisha, the hem of her clothes did not drag on the floor." On the ground." During this time together, Juzi confirmed her feelings for Shimamura, but at the same time she was entangled in this feeling. She hoped he would stay and urged him to leave quickly.

When Dao Cun came to Snow Country for the third time, Ju Zi’s fiancé had passed away, but Ye Zi was still there. She burned the notes recording her past life and regarded getting to know Dao Cun as a new beginning. But they also know clearly that there is nothing between them in the end.

The novel ends in a fire, in which Ye Zi died...

The plot of "Snow Country" is simple, without strong character conflicts and plot ups and downs. Everything is shrouded in the vast snow light of the snow country, in the mountains of cedar forests, in the sunshine on a sunny day, and in the mist of hot spring water vapor, blurry and hazy. The story unfolds faintly in the dialogue and details. Such as Shimamura's left index finger, which he keeps looking at, or the changes in length of the hem of Komako's clothes.

The author makes extensive use of light, shadow and color conversion to convey different inner feelings.

When they first met, Shimamura and Komako were a little reserved. Juzi lowered his head and spoke calmly. Dao Cun saw "her neck, faintly reflecting the dark green of the cedar forest. "So," Dao Cun looked up at the branches of the cedar trees."

Came to the snow country again. In the morning, Juzi woke up in Shimamura's room. "The white flowers shining in the mirror are snow, and the woman's red cheeks appear in the snow in the mirror. This is an incompatible beauty." "The snow in the mirror becomes more and more dazzling, like a burning flame. The woman's hair floating on the snow also shimmered with purple light, adding to the bright color. "At this time, the burning flame replaced the original faint dark green.

In the last scene, when Yukimura and Komako rushed to the scene of the fire, they saw "the firelight swaying on her (Ye Zi) pale face." "It seemed that at this moment, the firelight also illuminated The years he spent with Juzi were also full of unspeakable pain and sorrow."

In my opinion, some novels are based on storylines, with ups and downs and thrilling moments. . Some win by exaggerating the atmosphere, with light emotions slowly filling the air. A book friend in a reading group once asked: "Does everyone really think "Border Town" is good? I think the XX in the same collection is more interesting." I said maybe what everyone likes is the story atmosphere created by the author, lightly The thoughts of children among the mountains and rivers of western Hunan. "Snow Country" has a different approach but the same effect, leaving people with a faint but huge sadness and the beauty of nothingness.

The first snow of this winter fell heavily, and the eaves were covered with long ice drops that had not been seen for many years. But it is still different from the snow in Snow Country. Juzi said that a heavy snowfall there could bury telephone poles, and they would hit them accidentally while walking. Students can jump naked from the window into the snow early in the morning, just like swimming in water. Shimamura and I were equally surprised.

This book also contains another novel "The Lake" by Kawabata Yasunari. It is the kind of story with many twists and turns and clever structure. However, when I asked Du Niang, basically no one paid any attention.