After reading "Man when the Stars Shine" 1 "Captain Scott's diary was written to the last breath of his life until his fingers were completely frozen and his pen slipped from his stiff hand." This is my first memory of the shining stars of mankind.
I was shocked, by Zweig's history, by Zweig's starlight, right! I'm going to buy this book, hug her tightly, feel every soul-stirring place in the book, and absorb every historical nourishment in the book. I want to dedicate my knees deeply to Zweig and his fourteen stars when the human stars shine.
Throughout history, the most attractive are those dramatic and fateful moments, and Zweig is a magical "historian", who will put these magical moments before our eyes like a movie. One of the moments that attracted me the most was presented by Kyle Carmen in the Open. Take Byzantium for example! Such an important event, the decisive factor, turned out to be an open Kyle Carmen. Because of "incomprehensible negligence", the scene of this door is like "Peace on Sunday". Well, the victory has been decided, as Zweig wrote: "In history, just like in a person's life, a moment's mistake will build eternal hatred, and the loss caused by an hour's delay will be irreparable in a thousand years." Yes, I will dedicate my knee to what I want to say, this magical moment, because he taught me not to ignore any potential mistakes!
Zweig paid great attention to mediocrity: "This minute was crushed by grouchy's nervousness in the hand of the paper with the emperor's order." Every time I read One Minute of Waterloo, I will sigh and imagine what the world would be like if grouchy didn't stick to the orders on that paper. Will Napoleon rule all of Europe? Will grouchy be famous? The narrator Zweig just said to us: "Fate always only needs genius to make it immortal. Fate spurns the timid with contempt. " Then I dedicate my knee here to the three goddesses of fate. Zweig conveyed his words just right, so we should seize the opportunity and not be timid.
After watching When the Stars of Man Shine, I can't get rid of the shining stars on the cover for a long time. I can't help but admire the idealistic Wilson, the open Kyle Carmen, the mediocre grouchy, the resurrected Handel, the master Cicero, the heroic moment, everything and the shining stars. Zweig, you have written a brand-new history. You led me into the most glorious moment in history. Looking back, I find that you are also a shining star. Please accept my highest respect for you-Zweig, you will be as immortal as the historical figures you wrote: and your life will be as amazing as the wonderful moments you wrote.
Reading history makes people clear. Reading "When the Human Stars Shine" makes me feel the brilliance of human nature, the great consequences of perseverance and small mistakes and omissions. This book only makes me bend my knees!
Reflection on When the Stars Glow 2 When the Stars Glow tells some dramatic stories in human history. Originally, I was not interested in history, but I was deeply attracted by Steven Zweig's vivid and interesting description and unique style. These historical stories that I never knew shocked my soul.
As Zweig said, "history is a real poet and dramatist, and no writer can surpass history itself." Creation comes from life, and there have been countless dramatic and fateful moments in history.
One minute in Waterloo is my favorite book. 1815 June 17, the day before the Battle of Waterloo, grouchy, a man who ruined Napoleon's achievements, entered the curtain of history. He was ordered to pursue the Prussian army, while Napoleon himself launched a general attack on the British army. At the beginning of the Battle of Waterloo, Gé rard, the deputy commander, begged grouchy to help Napoleon, but grouchy, who was used to obeying orders, hesitated for only one minute, but this minute doomed Napoleon's failure. His last choice is still to obey orders-to hunt down Pu Jun. This is the result of inflexibility in following the rules. One minute, seemingly extremely short, can determine the life and death of a country and the direction of human history. We always say "improvise" in life. How many people can do such a simple word? In the face of choice, most people will choose a more secure one.
The first call on the other side of the ocean is not the story itself, nor the persistent quality of Cyrus westerfield, but the response of the "public" in the whole story. When this huge cable across the Atlantic connecting Europe and America received the first telegram from Britain, the crowd cheered and regarded Field as a hero. But when they never heard from another continent again and found that the telegram was out of order, the masses pointed all the finger at Field, an innocent man, and even began to spread rumors that the first telegram from England was forged. Field knew about the fault long ago, but didn't tell the masses. This reminds me of a Japanese drama about cyber violence I watched recently. Whether in the past or now, in reality or on the internet, people always like to catch shadows and magnify things infinitely. Whether it is true or not, they always spread information with the tide and hurt one soul after another with their words and actions that they think are "just". How many people in modern times can bear the huge pressure of public opinion like Field? When we say some cruel words, can we think twice before we act and put ourselves in others' shoes?
"With copper as a mirror, you can be well dressed; Taking history as a mirror, we can know the rise and fall; Taking people as a mirror, you can understand the gains and losses. " I hope more people can learn more about how to get along with others from historical stories, so as to make the society more harmonious and the relationship between people more harmonious.
The first sentence across the ocean is an article in When the Stars Shine, which tells the story of Field laying the first submarine cable. I talked more about the setbacks and failures that Field encountered, and finally succeeded. Inventions through the ages, which one has not experienced numerous setbacks and failures, what is the loss of money and time? How many people have given their precious lives on the road of pursuing truth and exploring science.
What makes me feel is this sentence: "1837 is a year of world significance." This year, for the first time, the telegraph synchronized the experiences of people who had been isolated from each other, but it was rarely mentioned in our school textbooks. Regrettably, the school textbooks still think that it is more important to tell the wars and victories of individual commanders and nations, rather than the real victories and the victories of all mankind. In fact, as far as its extensive psychological influence is concerned, no date in modern history can be compared with this change in time value. What happened in Amsterdam, Moscow, Naples and Lisbon this minute, Paris can know at the same time, and since then, the world has changed. As long as we take the last step, all continents will be able to embrace this wonderful connection, thus creating a sense of unity among all mankind. "
Throughout the long history, human civilization is only a flash in a hurry, but the emergence of new technologies is undoubtedly a thousand miles a day. Yesterday's miracle has become a matter of course today. These technologies that have changed human history, changed human destiny and even changed human direction in the last two centuries deserve our thanks. Let's not dwell on our four great inventions, because apart from them, we don't seem to have any inventions that can be taken away too easily in modern times. While enjoying the convenience brought by science and technology, we should remember these people. They invented airplanes, cars, trains, mobile phones and computers. ...
Many of us may have lost the concept and impression of telegraph. We live in this era, our next generation will have completely different goals and directions, and have completely different life contents and lifestyles. We should stop asking them to think in the same way.
We should be grateful for living in this great era and for the technology that has made great progress for this era. This is the progress of all mankind, because the earth is our home. We should remember these people who promote human progress in the new era. They have changed our lives, enriched our life contents and improved our way of life.
As the book says, the war between individual commanders and countries is not a real victory, but the victory of all mankind is a real victory.
After reading "When the Stars Shine 4", I feel that although the heroic historical view has been criticized by people to set off the correctness of objective historical materialism, I have to admit that those outstanding heroes are at the forefront of the changes of the times and rely on their own efforts to reverse the scene of Gan Kun, which is still exciting. Liang Qichao said: "The stage of heroes is also the stage of historians, and there is very little history without heroes." That makes sense.
Zweig's When the Stars of Man Shine is my favorite history book. Although it only contains a short dozen historical features, it makes people deeply realize the contributions made by those outstanding figures in promoting historical progress, whether the success of Handel, Lenin, Field and others, or the failure of Napoleon, Scott and Wilson, they are all so vivid, interesting and thought-provoking. Zweig showed us clearly how human history was rewritten at a critical moment, which made people feel ill-timed. One minute in Waterloo, grouchy's stubbornness and stupidity ruined Napoleon's moment of victory, which was heartbreaking. The forgotten Kyle Carmen in "Conquering Byzantium" made the Ottoman Turks smash the Eastern Roman Empire in one fell swoop, which made people lament. The Battle for the Antarctic describes the composure and courage of the expedition led by British explorer Scott at the last minute. These truly brave people deserve admiration.
We can find that in Zweig's historical close-ups, there is no praise for the emperors who used war to establish political power. He expressed his aversion to violence through Balzac. The characters in his works have persistent spirit and use their conscience to fight against violence. He paid high tribute to Cicero, a great humanist.
Unfortunately, Zweig did not touch the history of China. I think, if he has studied this ancient land in the past long years, he will certainly get a treasure, because it is an inexhaustible fertile soil, which is enough for him to study hard all his life. From his point of view, I think he will be interested in Qu Yuan's self-indulgence, hard struggle, smoking ban in Humen, the Xi Incident, and War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression's victory.
These human stars shine for a short night. Zweig said: "Before a truly historic world moment-the moment when human stars shine, there will inevitably be a long and ruthless time passing." What we have to do is probably to grow up hard in this waiting process and look forward to becoming a member of the bright stars.
After reading When Human Stars Glow, I read it carefully because a story in Zweig's book When Human Stars Glow was extracted from the textbook.
Zweig is a famous Austrian writer. He has written novels, poems, plays, essays, travel notes, literary theories and biographies, but his achievements are mainly short stories and biographies. As we all know, Zweig is one of the three great German novels in the 20th century. The book When the Stars Shine contains twelve stories, each of which is detailed and vivid, just like twelve historical pocket paintings.
The most memorable sentence in the book is the author's preface, "A far-reaching decision is associated with a unique date, a unique hour, and often only one minute." This sentence is confirmed in the story about Napoleon in the book The Moment of Waterloo.
The story is that Napoleon built his empire and became emperor. He occupied Lyon and drove away the king. Britain, Prussia, Austria and Russia formed an alliance in an attempt to defeat Napoleon. The allied forces were commanded by "Iron Rooster" Wellington. Napoleon saw the fatal danger, because his marshal grouchy gradually became a marshal from a cavalry general because his predecessors were all dead, unlike Wellington who became a marshal by virtue of his own military talents. Although grouchy is honest, honest and reliable, his talent is only a cavalry general. The day before the Waterloo War, grouchy gained independent command. He was ordered to lead a third of the troops to follow Pu Jun, keep in touch with the big troops at any time, and give Napoleon support when necessary. Because grouchy was used to obedience and seldom made decisions, the emperor was at a disadvantage. Grouchy was still waiting for Napoleon's orders, when all the senior officers asked for Napoleon's support. He thought for a second, and finally decided to stand by and wait for the emperor's order. Finally, due to grouchy's decision, Napoleon was defeated, leaving behind the famous Waterloo War in history, and Napoleon's empire also perished.
If grouchy listened to the opinions of the officers and dared to disobey military orders and support Napoleon, the result might be different. But at that decisive second, he failed to seize the opportunity. The moment to decide fate is not always in the hands of big people, but sometimes it is decided by small people. But there is only one chance, and if you miss it, you will never have it again. A second is neither long nor short, but it probably determines the development of history and century. From this book, I understand a truth: don't just listen, but also learn to be flexible. You only have one chance, so you should always be ready, and you shouldn't always leave it to chance.
Thinking when the Stars Glow 6 When the Stars Glow by the famous Austrian writer Stefan Zweig contains 15 historical features, showing us 15 moments that determine world history respectively. In these 15 most historic moments, people and stars twinkle, and that moment is eternity.
When the stars shine, I think it must be the record of those outstanding people. However, this is not entirely correct. Although those shining stars make the sky clear and clear at that moment, they may just be tiny and unremarkable stars that flashed at that moment, changed a lot of things and then disappeared without a trace.
Just like the collapse of Byzantium, the Millennium Empire, it was because the Unknown Star forgot to close Kyle Carmen, and the second it opened, it pushed Byzantium to the abyss of extinction; Balboa overlooks the Pacific Ocean; The spiritual resurrection of Handel's miracle; Goethe's old love elegy; Napoleon's A Minute of Waterloo and Rouge's La Marseillaise. ...
Not all deified people, but also some people close to the little people's mentality, left some brilliant or extraordinary people for various reasons. Balboa, for example, has an almost instinctive desire for the future and wealth, but this lofty original intention will, to some extent, prompt him to make greater discoveries and push him forward.
Although balboa longed to be admired for his great achievements in discovering the Pacific Ocean. At the same time, his shortcomings are too obvious, and his advantages and disadvantages are very clear, but the true human nature cannot be as white as paper and as black as ink; For example, Rouge, the creator of La Marseillaise, ceased to shine after the birth of the song. He lived a degenerate life, evaded debts everywhere and even went to prison.
Brother Lu sang, but was forgotten. Even if he dies, no one knows who he is. It was not until World War I that people remembered his name. Rouge was a genius only on the night he wrote La Marseillaise.
In this book, there are many words that shocked me, such as Handel's inner monologue: Go to sleep! Go to sleep! You can forget everything when you fall asleep, and you can forget any pain when you fall asleep; A person's greatest happiness is to discover his mission in this life in the middle of his creative career; There is only one genius among millions of people in a nation, and millions of leisure time in the world have passed before there is a real historical moment.
When the stars shine, the future may not be those famous people.
After reading when the human stars shine, 7. In the process of trying to restore or look back at history, knowledge is transformed into various words. We might as well divide knowledge into two categories: one is about the human world and the other is about the animal world. However, only human beings are clearly aware of their relationship with the living world, and only they use their thoughts to ignite life and create a new world.
Human beings are thoughtful, so there will be ideological elites among them, which will make human thoughts experience wave after wave of climax. Known as "the best biographer in history", Zweig's When the Stars Shine selects ten moments that determine the history of the world: the fall of Byzantium, Handel's spiritual revival, a second of Waterloo, the discovery of Huang Jinguo, bloody wars and heroic struggles, eternal sadness and the collapse of the empire, and so on. In such a shocking historical scene, the ideological elites in history stepped onto the stage one by one.
The great man written in this book does not reflect the tall image in the traditional sense, but has made great contributions to mankind, or embodies lofty humanity, perfect quality and character in certain circumstances, or just has shocking actions. In my opinion, the author skillfully applies the "montage technique" commonly used in film shooting to his own creation-the author describes everything people do, big or small, and calls it "historical close-up".
After reading this book, I found its relationship with celebrity biographies or orthodox history books: it is a combination of the two. Since it is a close-up of history, there must be a figure (great man) as the founder or promoter of this history. From the process of creating or promoting history, we can not only see a corner of the current social situation at that time, but also see that beautiful or ugly human nature is affecting this historical event. Someone has something to do, and people and things set each other off into interest, which is a major feature of this book. I think the greatest advantage of this way of writing is that it has the best of both worlds, closely follows historical facts, and writes vivid characters.
In fact, this book not only shocked me, but also shocked me. After reading this book, my previous hazy historical framework became clear. When lamenting the heaviness and vicissitudes of history, I suddenly strengthened a belief: I want to learn history well!
Thoughts after reading When the Stars of Mankind Shine 8 Today, I read the first story of When the Stars of Mankind Shine, seeking refuge in immortality. It mainly tells the story of a desperate man trying to save his life.
Buster nunes de balboa is the hero of this story. He is a brave man with adventurous spirit, but he is also a mercenary villain. He hid in an empty box and boarded a ship to South America-to explore and find what Columbus called the golden kingdom. Not only did he crowd out the owner of the whole motorcade for ambition, but he also drove away the governor sent by the king. The owner of the team he kicked out returned to Spain and reported his bad behavior to the court. In order to escape punishment, nunes de Baltya decided to take the lead in searching for gold wealth to ensure his own safety. During the arduous journey, he became the first person to see the Pacific civilization and learned that the nearby "for example" empire contained infinite gold. When he was ready to leave, his friends betrayed him in order to snatch credit, and even the new governor sent by the kingdom counted him on the guillotine.
This story is both great and tragic. N ú? ez de balboa has his own hope, even the weakest hope will not give up. He hid in the box when he could escape from the island and be free; He drove away the team owner Sean and the governor of Da Lian Island and gained power; When Sean exposed his crime to the Spanish court, he knew he was born to die. He chose the treasure hunt to atone for his sins and got his life. He doesn't want to die, he just wants to challenge the distance. He accomplished a great feat with several equally determined partners. He would rather die in the bravest adventure in history than be dragged to the guillotine in humiliation. But this gangster, who is a hero, explorer, robber and traitor, lost in the end, but lost his honor and face. The robber had a shameless and glorious life, and his glorious death was for a hopeful adventure, which not only made people spit on him, but also made him live forever.
A hero is a moment in the process of human reproduction, but it also shines like an eternal star in the boundless sky. Although their strength is small, they play an indelible role. We should remember heroes, let them live in our hearts forever, and let their spirit live in our hearts forever.
When the Stars Shine is a masterpiece of the famous Austrian novelist Steven Zweig. The writing is delicate and clear, the description is concise and vivid, and it is full of rhythmic beauty with a natural aristocratic atmosphere. 12 independent compositions, each with a theme but integrated. I can't bear to let it out after reading it.
Zweig's unique view of history has created a unique perspective, which allows us to clearly see how human history has been rewritten at a critical moment. What impressed me the most was a minute in Waterloo. Compared with the protagonists in other chapters, grouchy's image is far from majestic and tall. It seems that he only exists to better highlight the bold choice and fearless pursuit of other characters. Grouchy heard the gunfire of the Waterloo War, but he was careful, obedient, diligent and cautious. After some consideration, he finally chose not to support it. At the turning point of history, grouchy's stubbornness and stupidity completely ruined Napoleon's instant victory, and it was this moment's decision that turned the whole world history around. In this regard, Zweig's evaluation is sharp and subtle. Sometimes this is the most amazing moment in the history of the world. The line of destiny is in the hands of a loser in an instant, and the hero's world game takes those mediocre people in like a storm. But when the heavy responsibility suddenly fell on them, they felt more frightened than glad, and almost all of them lost their fate in trembling.
This interpretation is not perfect, it may be one-sided and arbitrary, but careful reading still brings some thinking and understanding. Many mediocre people often complain that they are outcasts of fate and can't find the opportunity and stage to display their skills. However, I seldom reflect on whether I have enough energy and courage to deal with the bumps and thorns on my way forward. Without heavy accumulation and tough personality, when the heavy responsibility comes unintentionally, they can only be at a loss and sigh.
"Before the human stars have been shining, it is inevitable that there will be an unnecessarily long time in the past. But once these moments appear, they will always scatter light like stars and shine on the temporary night. " Zweig used his warm and affectionate brushwork to let us relive these historical moments, and the long-lost passion surged in the depths of the soul again.