In “Arriving Before Midnight”, I roughly watched the summer and winter parts of the trip to Hainan and the return trip. In fact, I should have read “Lost Satellite” first. It seems that I am still interested in Asia, but it happened that I took this book with me when I was quarantined. I happened to be going to Sanya, and I was thinking about reading travel literature on the way. .
“Midnight” is the author’s travel journal in “Central Europe”, which generally involves Poland, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Austria, Hungary, Serbia and other countries.
1. At the moment I am writing a note, I wonder if the book also mentions “Yugoslavia”. After checking, I found that Yugoslavia had disintegrated in 1992 and was divided into 6 sovereign and independent countries: Slovenia, Croatia, Serbia, Montenegro , Macedonia, Bosnia and Herzegovina. Of course there were some entanglements after that, like the Yugoslav air raids in 1999, and I wrote poems.
2. Like the “Middle East”, the countries of “Central Europe” are unfamiliar to you. The only ones that can be related are Nedved in the Czech Republic and the Golden Hall in Vienna, Austria.
There are several cities that sound familiar and have impressions, but it is necessary to search for the corresponding countries: Czech Republic-Prague, Hungary-Budapest, Austria-Vienna; and the capitals of the following countries do not match at all: Poland: Warsaw, Serbia: Belgrade; Slovakia: Bratislava.
3. Most of the central parts of the mainland are conquered places. Like the Middle East, Central Europe and the Middle East are also subject to continuous aggression and fateful suffering. Austria-Hungary, Turkey (Ottoman), and the Soviet Union. As soon as the author arrives in Poland, he can feel why Poland is a tragedy, saying that it is very similar to Ukraine, because it is a plain sandwiched between Germany and Russia. The book also mentions many times the impact of “socialism” and the “Iron Curtain” on Central Europe, which is of course negative.
At this moment, the Russian-Ukrainian conflict is about to break out, and it is even more interesting in my heart. In the news of the Russian-Ukrainian conflict, I also saw a lot of information about Poland. Generally speaking, Poland is ready to accept refugees. Maybe there is some sense of sadness.
4. Compared with “My 701 Days in India”, because it is a pure travel, the excavation of nationality is obviously superficial, and it is not as good as “The World by Motorcycle”, but the author himself is only positioned as “Travel Notes”. ”, but it’s not easy to force it. In comparison, this book is a little too deliberately to show a sense of estranged elegance. I can’t say whether I like it or not.
“701 Days” is more about the author’s immersion in the local society, “Tumo” is more about excavating local history, and this book is more about simple observations and introductions to local artistic figures that seem to be widely cited.
5. I think the slot is: there are a lot of pictures before and after the book, and they are still in color, but they are basically persuaded to retreat.
6. However, some inadvertent passages still have some triggers, such as “what do you think of us”, “chosen by yourself”, and “travelers have ascetic meanings, while travelers are a bit derogatory”, “Polanfer” The struggle of the 70 dwarfs in Roclaw”, “Italians like to gesture without arms and can’t speak”.
7. From the perspective of travel, the author also reflects a “maverick style” between the lines. For example, he deliberately does not go to popular places, which is reflected in many paragraphs. Said that he deliberately did not go to Venice (of course he felt that he was forced). Of course, I would say that I am also increasingly supportive of going to more remote places.
“Arriving Before Midnight” – Sino-European Travel Literature first appeared in Laughing Book Shenxia .
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