I want to read famous books, but I don t have any literary background

Looking at Water Margin and Journey to the West, these two are easier to understand.

War and Peace (Russian) Leo Tolstoy.

Notre-Dame de Paris (French) Hugo.

Gorky's Autobiographical Trilogy:

Wuthering Heights (English) Emily Brontë.

David Copperfield, Dickens.

The Red and the Black (French) Stendhal.

Les Misérables (France) Hugo.

Anna Karenina (Russian) Leo Tolstoy.

John Christophe (France) Romain Rolland.

Gone with the Wind (USA) by Margaret Michel.

I think the important thing is whether the author's ideological connotation is what you want, whether this is a good book for you. How a book is has nothing to do with how famous it is. I don't advise you not to read the so-called prose of Yu Qiuyu and the like.

Dream of Red Mansions and the like, if you don't think it's good, don't read it. After the founding of the Chinese mainland, you must not read it before the reform and opening up, because China was a culturally forbidden place at that time. Literature that celebrates is meaningless.

You can read the Nobel Prize-winning works, but of course not necessarily, the most famous writers have been forgotten by the Nobel Prize.

What kind of one do you want to see, look at One Hundred Years of Solitude, which has won the Nobel Prize, and is now on sale.

Probably some of them are not up to the experience, and some may be due to chance.

Not being able to read world classics has nothing to do with one's own literary level. I can't understand the world's famous books, which can be summarized basically as two reasons:

First, the author may simply express his inner emotions or just want to tell a wonderful story, and there is no deeper connotation; Like waiting for Godot.

Second, as the title says, the author may have written it on purpose to make you unable to understand it; For example, the wasteland.

The first point mentioned above is mainly expressed in some lyric poetry and ancient legends, such as ancient Chinese personalized lyric poetry and Greek and Norse mythological stories. If you want to say how much impact these works have had on your real life after watching them, you may not have them. The value of this kind of work lies in the fact that it can give people an experience of "beauty", and there is no need to force to understand what profound life wisdom is inside.

Everyone's personality is different, there are many famous books, if you ask Lu Xun to read and reminisce about the old days, he may not be able to understand, and if you ask Proust to read Kafka, he may not be able to understand. Only by reading more books will you discover your preferences. Each book is a container for part of the author's soul, and we, as readers, can't resonate with all the works.

Reading should be a joyful and happy thing.

That's for sure, there is such a thing as a famous book, which cannot be read and read by swallowing dates. Sometimes you don't necessarily understand even if you read it many times, and you need to rely on the accumulation of experience and experience one day and another. A person's experience is really important, the more you experience, the more you read, the more opinions you have when you read the book, and the broader your horizons are.

The so-called life to learn is only through continuous learning, can you read those famous books that you have not been able to read.

"Dream of Red Mansions".

In the Dream of Red Mansions, the author wrote a large number of Buddhist and Taoist thoughts, and most of these true and false, large and small, virtual and real, beautiful and ugly wisdom, most of them come from the Taoist Zhuangzi, for Jia Baoyu's life, in fact, it is the process of pursuing self-search, understanding the impermanence of the world, in fact, Jia Baoyu's life trajectory, just like Zhen Shiyin, finally realized that the birds were eaten and thrown into the forest, and the white land was really clean. Dream of Red Mansions can be said to be an encyclopedia, if a person can spend his whole life reading only one book of Dream of Red Mansions, then the final wisdom of this person must be higher than that of a person who reads everything.

Of course there will be, for example, in "Dream of Red Mansions", I only saw the rise and fall of the four major families and the tragic experiences of each character. There are always some details in the work that I still don't understand well, such as the character of the monk who appears.

Most of the famous books are hard bones, and it was really a sin to read them when I was a child. In fact, many famous works can only be understood when they are adults, especially Western masterpieces, with treacherous grammatical structures and a long list of difficult names, but you will still gain from understanding them slowly.

"Thorn Bird", I can read it, it may have been okay at the time, but this thin plot without any twists and turns in the language is really boring now, without any deep meaning and social background.

Yes, if you don't have life experience, you may feel that the writing is not very good, but when you reach a certain age, you will have a lot of insights.

"Dream of Red Mansions", look at how many red scholars have studied it until now, you will know how difficult it is to read.

For most people who are not majoring in language and literature, they should learn the practical significance of literary classics, and some of them are very distinctive in terms of rhetoric, expression, and so on.

But most of the masterpieces are not famous for their writing, expression, and beautiful language; Rather, it reflects different social realities in different societies, and it has reference significance for our lives and lives. Such a masterpiece requires an understanding of the purpose and significance of the author's writing.

For example: The story of the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl should not only praise the love of this virtual couple, but also to see, which shows that in feudal society, love is affected by feudal thoughts, family and many other concepts, and free love is difficult to achieve.

Another example: Lu Xun's works reflect the social status quo at that time is also worthy of our deep thought, which shows that the Xinhai Revolution was not thorough, and the people were not fundamentally emancipated from the ideology.

I prefer poems and the like, the content is very rich, and when used in writing, it will make people feel that this person is really literate.

If the time is very short and you want to know the essence, you can take a look at Zhu Ziqing's "Classic Talking (a book in hand, the classics of Chinese culture are all known)", An Yiru's "If Life Is Only as First Seen", "At that time, only the Tao was ordinary", "Thinking of Innocence", "Mo Shang Flowers Bloom and Slowly Return" ( After reprinting, the title of the book was changed to "Mo Shang Flowers Bloom") Guanyin" appreciates the opera of the Yuan Dynasty, the night rain of the rivers and lakes "Impression of the Tang Dynasty: A Commentary on the Biography of Tang Caizi", "Cooking Wine and Discussing the Tao: The Wonderful Wisdom of the World", "The Gorgeous Tang Dynasty Fragments", "Fuxiang Ji" , "Red Sleeve Incense Under the Moon in Chang'an", "Husband Treasure Book", "Jianghu Night Whispering Water Margin", "Last Night's Idle Pond Dream Falling Flowers", "The Pearl at the End of the Pen Has Nowhere to Sell", "Like Knowing Flowers with Birds", "Thousand Poems of the Thousand Years of Frost Moon", "Laughing at the Sea and Wanting to Become Dust", "Pounding the Red Mansion".

Others appreciate it, and the language is quite beautiful.

If it's **, I recommend you read "The Language of Floating Creatures" to cleanse your soul!

If you want to improve your reading and writing skills, I think a book may be a little less, of course, if you look at the prose collection, you don't borrow, the sentences are beautiful, I personally prefer the book of the prose collection, not the kind of personal prose collection, because that kind of article style will have some limitations, it is best to be the kind of article of many people, very personal has their own language style and characteristics, so that you can learn while reading and it is best to have some example sentences to imitate or something, Also, you can go and find some books about language combinations. Personally, I like the book "Jane Eyre", I like the story, I like the heroine, and I like the elegant words.

"Orphan of the Fog" is not bad