La Ronde

After revolution and love are over, how should people continue to live?

There was a time when I was chatting with my friends, she often used an emoticon from "Berlin Babylon", the line was: "＊＊＊ (three-character cursing)! You betrayed the working class!" After watching too much, I suddenly sprouted Come up with an idea: I want to write a story about Maystorm, the protagonists are intellectuals and workers who are not typical in the two revolutionary eras.The revolution is coming, and they seem to have the right to choose whether to join or not, but in fact they are inevitably and passively involved in this wave.From here, it is not difficult to find that revolution and love are isomorphic.The mechanism of love is also beyond rational judgment. When true love finds you, you have no right to resist.

Just do it.But considering that my previous knowledge of 1968 was only from the words of Lefebvre, Ranciere and Badiou, I first found a friend in related majors and asked for a book list, and the other party opened a Dui, smiled and said: "Donor, this is a month's supply, if it is not enough, come to me again."

Of course I didn't finish it, because in the end I still wanted to write a story, not a dissertation.However, this story inevitably involves the evaluation of 68, and I tried to show different attitudes through the characters.

The left-wing social revolution is a compromise between utopia and historical reality, and it represents a force of negation. What is special about 1968 is the chance of this power erupting. After the 60s, people have been exploring the reasons for the May Storm, but no one has found the exact answer. It is as mysterious as the utopia pursued by the left.

It is not difficult to understand why modern man cares about and even secretly desires revolution.For the melancholy of modernity comes precisely from the bankruptcy of modernism, and more specifically, from the failure of the ideal of revolution in general.The setting of modern life is a sunken and monotonous world, which Lefebvre has long predicted: "The history of industrialized society is leading us to the ultimate redundancy: the fascinating repetition in film, the meticulous maintenance of eternal renewal. And pictures, the bleakness under the mask of frantic drumming, news without new ideas and new life.” Among the intricate fragments, modern people are restlessly longing for a revolutionary force that can break this situation, it must be pure and unified.I have no intention of addressing the question of whether modern revolutions are possible, but only of the fact that revolutions aimed at the outside must come to an end, such as the short-lived May Storm.This is just as the love between the subjects cannot be eternal, even for Conrad, he may have an illusion that those four months are like a lifetime.But we all know that's not the case, and he has to face the rest of his life alone.One of my original intentions for writing this novel is also to explore such a question: How should people continue to live after the revolution and love are over?

In the end, Valentino's whereabouts are unknown, and Conrad becomes his father.It's not BE for me, it's a problem life sets for everyone.The setting of the plot is accidental, but the idea behind it is inevitable.

Regarding the topic of modern revolution and utopia, I would like to end with the translation of Leszek Ko?akowski, which is very rough. The original text is attached below:

If utopia means a set of values ​​that we want to defend and see fulfilled in our lives, then nothing prevents us from clinging to them, even though we know those values ​​will never be perfectly compatible with each other.If utopia is just a prescriptive notion of "optimum" rather than a certainty that we have mastered the art of producing "optimum," then utopia itself must be part of our thinking.But it is pure fantasy to pretend that we know how to get rid of want, misery, hatred, injustice: no one knows how to get rid of these.Behaviors that soften these situations can only be achieved on a small scale at specific points.This is so difficult to accept for the spirit of utopia, because utopia always seeks the vision of the last day, the big leap, the decisive battle.Others seem (or even "are") dark, uninteresting, uninspiring, and require specific knowledge.

Finally, let me put it lightly. The title "Dancing Rondo" has nothing to do with Schnitzler's play (sorry for Mr. Shi who was touched), but I saw the circle in both revolution and love.And the current Chapter 1 has undergone a major revision. Here, I would like to thank Mr. Samizda and Ajie for their massive opinions, which allowed me, a blind novice who can't write novels at all, to survive the trial of Chapter 1.I would also like to thank Mr. Fox for writing a message that is more interesting than my main text. Without Mr. Fox, this article would not end so quickly.Thanks to all the friends who tried to read it, gave me the courage to finish writing this story, and see you in the next story when I have the opportunity.

Easter egg one:

Now that I have touched Mr. Schnitzler, let’s touch PaulKlee by the way, and explain my idea of ​​designing the cover picture.

The main picture is Paul Klee's surrealist work "Grenzendes Verstandes" (Grenzendes Verstandes) in 1927. As the name suggests, the original picture expresses that human rationality has boundaries and cannot recognize the ultimate idea.

I made four changes.

1. Because the May storm happened in Paris, so we first adjusted the color of the area according to the national flag of China.

2. The thinker sitting on the ladder was added later, the original picture is a stick figure by Frédéric Forest.

3. The third change is to add words.The French "May" is added to the blue area, thinking that there is a break in the middle of the May storm (so far no one can explain the cause of the May storm), of course, it can also be understood that in May, structuralism theory Being abandoned overnight is also a break.

"Utopia" is added to the red area, which is also the ultimate that human reason cannot reach.A special feature of May Storm is that people at that time did not have any specific conception of the utopia to be built after the success of the revolution, which was a chaotic idea.

4. The last modification is to add a sentence "This is also the abyss..." on the picture, the abyss of thinking is above people.Utopia can also be an abyss, which involves the content of the novel, which is left to the judges to judge.

Easter egg two:

The birth of the character Conrad is attributed to my beauty, the Austrian actor Helmut Berger of the last century. All I did was YY a script for him.Of course, girls who don't like to have faces in their heads when reading novels should not search. HB is one of the most German-style beauty I have ever seen, and his life is also very legendary, and it is the kind of legend that only happens to Europeans.If you are interested in his life and movies, please go to my Weibo and search for his name. I have translated several articles in his autobiography in German, and I have also written some film reviews.If you watch HB, we are good friends (.

Easter egg three:

In the last chapter, Valentino wrote a sentence on the back of the photo: "You are a fly of divinity, and the moment when the dice are thrown... My heart is the dance floor of chance, or is it just a gamble?" Table." This sentence comes from the summary of the adaptation of Nietzsche, and it is also an expression of my concept of the full text (the original text is put in the notes first, and I will write it when I have time)

Valentino also has many secrets, I will not dismantle them, the fun of solving the puzzles is left to the readers (although I doubt if anyone except me gets the pleasure from this article)

Finally, if you have any comments, questions and thoughts, please feel free to contact me. I am very grateful to everyone who has read this far >_

＊1Leszek Ko?akowski:

Ifutopiameansthehighestsetofvalueswewanttodefendandseeimplementedinsociallife, nothingpreventsusfromhangingontoallofthemevenifweknowthattheywillneverbeperfectlycompatiblewitheachother. imum, thenutopiais anecessarypart of fourthinking. But twouldbeapuerilefantasytopretendthatweknowhowtoridtheworldofscarcity,suffering,hatred,andinjustice:nobodyknowsthat.Whatevercanbedoneinsofteningthesecondconditionscanbedoneonlyinspecificpoints,onsmallscales,byinches.Thatthiss should be so unacceptable to the genuine utopian mentality which looks for the vision of the Last Day, the great leap, the final battle; everything else seems (andis, indeed) gray, boring, lackingpathos, requiring specific knowledge instead.

*2 Nietzsche

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