The Hungarian poet Petofi has a popular poem, which you must have heard, that is: life is precious, and love is more expensive.
How? Is love really more precious than life? How much are you willing to sacrifice for love?
Today, there is a book recommended to you by Shujun, which tells a shocking love story, which comes from the classic masterpiece "Paradise Lost" by the famous Japanese novelist Junichi Watanabe - telling the story of a pair of middle-aged men and women who were both martyred due to extramarital love.
What the heck? Extramarital love is already exciting enough, and middle-aged men and women are still martyred!? Hey hey, there is a book jun who wants to tell you that this is not the most exciting, in the story, the martyrdom of this pair of men and women is actually holding martyrdom when doing indescribable things...
Wait, the amount of information is a bit large, let the book jun first be quiet...
All right...... We go on to say that Junichi Watanabe has written more than 50 novels in his lifetime, and is known as a master of Japanese love, and his excellence in writing such novels stems from his 10 years of related experience... Think about it too much, people have had 10 years of experience as an orthopedic surgeon, think about it, you know how familiar he is with the human body...
Therefore, in "Paradise Lost", all kinds of indescribable scenes are described by Junichi Watanabe very well, the details are beautiful, and after watching it, I have to sigh: The title of love master is really not covered!
Published in 1997, the book caused an uproar in the Japanese literary scene at that time, with almost five people scolding and praising people, and even triggered the phenomenon of "Paradise Lost" at one point, and the martyrdom in the novel became a tourist attraction.
Below, a book jun will take you to see what is going on in this shocking love story.
The male protagonist is called Hisaki, is a fifty-year-old publishing house editorial board, even if the career is successful, a few years ago he was still a red man in the company, but in the blink of an eye ushered in the trough of life, in the personnel change lost, was transferred to the pension department.
This means that Hisagi's professional struggle in this life is over, and he can only wait for retirement boringly.
Hisagi has a seemingly happy marriage, but in reality? No one can help the file of time, there is only affection and responsibility left between him and his wife, what romance, passion, ah, has long gone.
In order to fill the emotional emptiness, Hisaki occasionally plays with women outside for a short period of extramarital affairs, but they are all scenes and do not get too involved.
At this time, the heroine Rin Zi appeared! Rin Zi is more than 30 years old this year, still young and beautiful, and the most important thing is that she has a "virgin face" and looks particularly pure.
Rinko has a handsome and tall husband, a good job, is a professor in the university medical department, after marriage, Rinzi stayed at home as a full-time wife, on the surface looks carefree, happy like a flower, but what others do not know is that this Rinzi and her husband have actually maintained a sexless marriage.
After a few more years as a housewife, Rinko decided to return to her career as a calligraphy lecturer at a cultural center. At a work circle party, she and Hisaki met, which was to quickly dry firewood and stir up the fire, fall in love, and officially derail.
Originally, for Hisaki, derailment was just a spice for a tired life, but this time he met Rinko with a completely different feeling, what? He slowly discovered that what he longed to possess was not only a body, but also a soul.
For Rinko, cheating is not the same, this is a big thing, before knowing Hisagi, her life was as plain as water, there were no waves, and following the rules was her normal.
However, the less people who have experienced the waves, the easier it is to be swallowed up by the waves, so the innocent and pure Rinko completely fell after staging love action movies with Hisaki again and again.
The two often come out to meet, at first they were more worried about being known by the other half, and they were afraid that colleagues and friends would chew their tongues and hide, but the feelings were not controlled after all, especially when they encountered true love, so with the deepening of love, they were becoming more and more open, and even rented a house to live together.
So blatant, this will inevitably be known by the other half. Kuki thought that his wife would cry twice and hang herself three times, and the other party just coldly threw out the divorce agreement, but it was Rinko's husband who refused to leave alive or dead, and also sent an anonymous whistleblower letter with malicious slander to Kugi's publishing house, causing Kuki to be hit hard, and Rinko's mother also broke off relations with her daughter.
Since things have developed to this point, what else to talk about extramarital affairs, let's boldly be together? But the two protagonists are not! Because yeah, they figured out one thing.
If you don't get married, you have to endure the criticism of the whole society, but if you get married, sooner or later there will be a day of boredom and coldness, which can be said: "To be, or not to be, this is a problem." ”
So what to do? Is there any way to keep love at its warmest forever?
Both men were particularly clever and quickly came up with the same method, but neither dared to speak first. Until one day in the autumn of the third year, they realized that the world was not worth it, and decided to use death to solidify their love.
The two also made a lot of preparations for this, carefully chose the place of martyrdom, designed a romantic trip, and finally took poison together and hugged each other, and died in the extreme of love.
This is the story of Paradise Lost, full of all kinds of shameful descriptions and color scenes, challenging our values and morals everywhere, scolding the people of this book: Only from personal love and sensory experience, regardless of the responsibility of family and society, it is simply ruining the three views!
Those who praise this book say: This is true love, you can sacrifice everything for love, long live true love!
Of course, the creation of the novel is also related to the background of the times, when the Japanese economy bubble and crisis, breeding a large number of family and marriage problems, the general lack of security in society, human nature is very repressed, so there is an urgent need for emotional comfort, Kugi and Rinko use the eternal resistance of death to the nihilism of the real world, representing the extreme thoughts of some Japanese people, but this is a special product of a special era, really not worthy of praise.
