In fact, most children are often comforted by their families after such a big fight-of course, they may also be reprimanded and suppressed more severely. But in any case, an unpleasantness, like a ripple caused by throwing stones at the lake, reverberated for a while and then calmed down. Looking back many years later, it may be ridiculous: the idea of running away from home is really naive.
However, in the works of Italian writer Calvino, there is a child of 12 years old who runs away from home in a unique and shocking way. When he's gone, it's a lifetime.
65438+In the 1960s, there was a noble family in a place called Weng Brossa. The owner's name is Baron Arminio Pio vasco di Rondo. He has two sons and a daughter. Among them, the eldest son, entrusted mo, and the second son, Peter Joya, are all in their innocence at this time.
These two playful brothers are always keen on adventure: climbing tall trees; Go upstream in the river and jump from one reef to another; Looking for caves by the sea ... all these behaviors are impolite and dangerous for my father.
The two brothers got into a lot of trouble because they were naughty. Once, they slipped on the jade fence of the stairs and smashed the statues of their ancestors on the pillars at both ends of each stairs. My father, who has always attached importance to genealogy, regards these statues as treasures on weekdays! So, the two children really got a beating.
This is an era in which the old and the new alternate. As an aristocrat, Baron Dilondo's greatest dream is to get the title of Duke of Ombrosa. He considers genealogy and inheritance. He hopes that his two sons will marry the princess when they grow up, so that their family status will be further improved.
Therefore, in education, the baron is bent on training children's behavior to conform to aristocratic manners and strictly discipline them at ordinary times. When a child is impolite to eat, he will be scolded-even if he chews a turkey, his father will stare at him to see if he abides by court etiquette when cutting meat and boneing.
Over the years, the contradiction between the eldest son, who refused to preach by the rules, and his father has become more and more fierce. Finally, the long-accumulated contradiction ushered in an outbreak day.
1at noon on June 5, 767, barons ate in the dining room of the villa. A few days ago, entrusted mo took his younger brother to make trouble again. He dug a hole in the bottom of a barrel in the cellar, deliberately released snails and crawled around-that was the ingredient their sister planned to use for a big meal. As a result, two naughty children were beaten and locked up for three whole days. This is the first time for family members to get together for dinner in several days.
Cosimo, who was released, faced the snail soup and the main course made by snails on the dining table and said that he would never eat it, even refused to touch the snail shell.
Seeing his stubborn son, the father was very angry and scolded: Get out of the table if you don't eat!
I saw entrusted mo immediately got up and ran to the garden without looking back, quickly climbed up the sacred oak tree in front of the door, where he vented his grievances and anger and protested.
Dad reprimanded: "As long as you come down, you will have a good look."
Entrusted mo actually replied: "I will never get off the tree!" "
Everyone in the family thinks that Cushimo is playing with his temper again. If he is tired of staying up there, he will come down in frustration.
However, to everyone's surprise, including his family, Cosimo kept his promise and carried out his oath in a maverick way. From the day he climbed the tree to the end of his life, he never set foot on the earth again in his life.
Cosimo, an incredible figure, is the hero of Calvino's masterpiece The Baron in the Tree. Although the story is pure fiction, Calvino wrote his extraordinary imagination with exquisite brushwork, and made the eccentric Cosimo so real that people felt that this man who ran away from home and lived in a tree actually existed in history.
Some Douban netizens commented: "Calvino's brain circuit must be different from ordinary people. His words are amazing, dense water vapor, clouds all over the sky. He lives in a tree, some distance from the mortal world. As soon as he opened his brain, he rubbed reality and fantasy together and fed them to readers. "
Calvino's father is a botanist. When Calvino was young, he was immersed in the wonders of nature under the guidance of his father. In college, Calvino studied agronomy, including flowers and rare trees. For him, it can be described as a few treasures. Calvino's meticulous understanding of nature makes it easy for him to depict the living environment in Cosimo on a tree, creating a vivid sense of reality. Cosimo made full use of the living environment of the forest, reminiscent of Robinson Crusoe, in which Robinson Crusoe explored a desert island and lived according to local conditions.
For Cosimo who lives in a tree, the branches of the trunk are the road under his feet. The winding olive tree is tough and a smooth and comfortable avenue; When you get to the fig tree, be careful to tiptoe; Climbing the old walnut tree in Ye Sheng is like entering a palace with heavy buildings. ...
Cosimo, who lives in a tree, can hunt and make unique animal fur into clothes to keep out the cold. He turned the hide over, hung it on a branch and slept in it at night. He even used waterfalls and tree trunks to make canals according to local conditions so that he could bathe himself; He can also sit on a tree and have a barbecue and exchange vegetables and fruits with farmers. Even defecation, Cauchy Mo Ye is conducted in a decent and civilized way. He traded his prey for books with Jewish booksellers. He also tamed the short-legged hound that his neighbor forgot to take with him when he moved, and named it Jiajia, which became his good hunting partner. ...
Calvino described Cosimo's life in the tree with almost "realistic" details; In the most common tone, it tells an imaginative story: what a person might look like if he freed his fate from the world.
Calvino's brain hole has the characteristics of magical realism. For example, after Napoleon's army began to conquer, a group of French light cavalry came to the forest of Cosimo. The commander of this team is Captain Babillon, a poet who believes in the concept of "obeying nature". His wonderful command style and hidden way lead to: "moss and lichen grow on soldiers' uniforms, and sometimes heather and fern grow;" Wren build nests on fur hats, or lilies of the valley grow and bloom on them; The boots stuck in the soil and became solid hooves-the whole row of people took root there. "
This book is full of imagination, and the interesting and humorous paragraphs make people laugh.
After reading the previous content, you may think that Cosimo is one of the most selfish and withdrawn characters in the novel world. In fact, however, entrustment is nothing more than giving up the world and being tireless. Since living in a tree, he has come into contact with a new world that he has never seen before, but he has connected his life more closely with the earth.
He crossed the fence and came to the garden of his neighbor Marquis Ondaliwa. His two families despised each other, stayed away from each other and met his first love.
He walked in the forest and met many people he had never had a chance to meet before, including charcoal burners, potters and glassworkers ... Cosimo watched them work for a long time and went down to the low branches at night to watch them light bonfires and listen to their stories.
He went to the place where farmers turned fields and mowed grass, greeted them in the trees, listened to them talk about farming and chatted, and quietly watched how farmers plowed, sowed and fertilized. However, as an aristocrat in the past, he never talked to farmers and felt embarrassed. He is also willing to act as a messenger to deliver news to farmers.
He even met a robber who was hated by everyone-Jain Deyi Brouqui, and they became friends because of their mutual love for books.
He wolfed down all kinds of books, learned all kinds of knowledge, and talked with priests about all kinds of topics: autocracy and republicanism, truth and goodness of religion, etiquette in China, Lisbon earthquake, scientific and technological progress at that time, artistic sentimentality ... He even corresponded with the greatest philosophers and scientists in Europe at that time, asking them to answer their questions and objections.
Gradually, he fell in love with everything that can be done on the tree and looked at the world with a brand-new eye: "Many things that were once important are no longer important to him."
Although he lives alone, he is more closely related to the fate of the people in his hometown. He uses the knowledge he has learned to make himself a useful person, provide essential services to others and enjoy it.
He stood guard for the people and helped resist the invasion of wolves. He saw through the plot of foreigners in the tree and safeguarded the interests of Weng Brossa people.
He knew the ideological wave and changes caused by the French Revolution like the back of his hand, delivered a speech on a tree, told his views on the current situation, and spread the ideas of freedom, equality and fraternity of the French Revolution to people. He encouraged people to protest against all kinds of unreasonable phenomena, against taxes and against the imperial army.
When Napoleon's army occupied here, the Republic became an empire and collected more taxes. He tried his best to protect the people in great power.
After his death, his younger brother commented: "Only if you experience it personally like him, and only if you stick to your own path all your life, can you contribute to everyone."
Cosimo's life, because he kept a distance from the world, he saw the earth under his feet more clearly.
In the tree, he silently experienced the ups and downs of life and the cycle of the four seasons; He discovered the long-hidden unknown side of his uncle; He witnessed the death of his parents and did his duty as a son of man; He experienced the separation and combination with his lover, and realized the joy, passion, sadness and grief brought by love. He was coldly regarded as a madman; He felt honored and regarded as a hero. He witnessed the idea he had dreamed of, which was so dazzling, but ended in gloom and turned to ashes.
The time on the tree never slows down, but it still flies by. Unconsciously, entrusted mo found himself on the road to death. On his deathbed, he still refused to compromise and bid farewell to the earth completely with a gesture that shocked the world.
His tombstone reads this epitaph:
Cosimo Pio vasco di Rondo-who lives in a tree-loves the earth forever-rose to the sky.