Why is Sally Runi's novels popular worldwide?

Author:Shanghai translation Time:2022.08.07

If you want to take stock of young writers who are popular in recent years, Irish writer Sali Runi must be on the list.

From "Chat Record" to "Normal Man" to the recent new work "Beautiful World, where are you", every work of Rooney is a global phenomenon best -selling novel. Among them, the episode of the same name adapted from "Normal People" also set off a wave of viewing frenzy, and at the same time gained a high reputation of audiences.

So why is Sally Runi's novels popular worldwide?

Sally Runi's latest work "Beautiful World, where are you"

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The first cry of the literary world "Chat Record"

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[Irish] Sali Runi and Zhong Na translated Shanghai Translation Publishing House Islands Books

The young writer must use novels to tell the state of life shared by some young people around the world. The story seemed to be bland and lightly described in the story, but poked many hard core issues in the intimate relationship between young people. As a result, Rooney and his works have become a window, allowing us to spy on the thinking, desires and desires of young people in different areas and young people in different regions of the world.

Loui's novels have many things in common. For example, the protagonist of the story is often set on young people of the "millennial generation". These young people are often in a state of life, intimacy or identity, and some kind of dilemma. In the opinion of the author in this article, there is often a sense of meaning that belongs to young people at the moment: it is often created by small communities such as friends, lovers, and building a lifestyle suitable for their own lifestyle in the seemingly blurred struggle.

Fixed lifestyle smoke disappears

In the new book "Beautiful World, where are you" in Sali Rui's new book, the New York Times is called the same theme of the three works by the "Millennial Period "- to this day - Talking, desire, and search for the "beautiful world".

Whether it is the emotional entanglement of the four in "Chat Records", a dialogue between the wonderful collisions in the text, or in the "Normal Man", Mary and Cornell exist in class differences. Continuously talk about the confusion, pain and confusion that you feel. Moreover, in Rooney's works, we will find that only in the intimate relationship and communication with others can we slowly heal the almost "innate" trauma.

TV series "Chat Record" stills

As Lui said in an interview with the new book in the British critic, Schiller's seemingly nostalgic verse "Beautiful World, where are you" for young people living in contemporary contemporary. "Smooth". And this feeling is the most typical feature of young people in Rooney novels, and this feeling will not be different due to the difference in traditional class, gender or economic status, but most of them have strong universality. Perhaps it is precisely because of the disillusionment of this contemporary life that those young people who are still studying in college or just entering social work will reveal these lost readers. It is this contemporary atmosphere on the story and the characters that have allowed Rooney's novels to quickly attract attention from the world since publishing.

When talking about "Beautiful World, where are you", Eris's novelist identity pointed out, "I write the people and things I know ... The world in the book is written based on the real life of my real life. I am right Of course, the experience of this world is very limited, and I only write a part of the limited things in the novel. " But it is precisely this "limited world and thing", which constitutes a common situation of contemporary young people. Especially in the new book, four young people who have left campus, work for a while, and have three times are still confused and uneasy about their lives, existence, emotions, and the world they are in, and anxiety and confusion also run through them.

In the book, the communication between Irene and Alice through the entire novel reveals the crisis they encounter in their world and self in this situation. Among them, they talked about the past, "It is difficult for us not to think that modern life is not as good as the past. In the past, it seemed to represent a richer and more close way to coexist with humans." And they also clearly realized that they and their parents We are different, "I don't know them, I can't live with them, and I can't introduce them to my inner world -similarly, they can't write them" ... These young people feel that they feel their current world and past. Different, so some of the parents followed by themselves, they are fixed in their opinion, and the remaining is the only fragments that are fragmented, waiting for them to be re -assembled, created and imagined by them. "I think I think I seemed to be suspended in the conceptual world, isolated, and lost my intelligence. "

"Normal Man" stills

It is the clear cognition of the world's changes in the current world that makes young people in the story of Rooney began to discuss social issues that have gradually disappeared in their parents, such as class, politics, gender, and social inequality. From Francis's exaggeration to a series of social issues in the debut "Chat Records", to "Normal People" because of class differences, Mary has to think about her relationship with Cornell until "Beautiful World, where are you"? Aris and Felix's discussion about "who is the proletariat", Rooney's attention to class that runs through her long story. However, as many comments have been pointed out, most of these young people's discussions on the left -wing movement of Europe and the United States in the story are mostly "political streams", and they belong to the talked of soldiers on paper without any actual political participation and actions.

Seeking the sense of meaning of young people

To some extent, these comments did not really understand the reasons why these young people were so keen to talk about social or class issues in the story of Rooney. Just like their sensitivity to politics, ecological environment and gender, instead of their talks for some realistic political actions, it is better to say that they are more likely to use these seemingly disappearing (such as class problems) or radical (Such as ecological and gender, sexual orientation) issues to solve the "suspended" state of them.

These issues are more like a space that can be temporarily wrapped in them, which can allow them to get some stability in a contemporary society in a place, or even temporarily end. Or use the term of German new realism philosopher Marcus Gabriel, they are all "Sinnfelder", where these young people can show themselves in them.

Of course, the impact of these issues even interfere with their lives, interpersonal relationships, especially intimate relationships, but we will find that it is not these external differences that eventually decide the decisive role. In "Beautiful World, where are you", Irene and Alice discussed the various social issues in the world where they lived in each other's communication, and they were like each other with each other. They also exchanged their views on various external worlds, religions, classes, and gender. The ultimate goals of these discussions pointed at the space they chose to choose as their own survival or self -recognition.

The most typical representative is Simon, who believes in Christianity. In the discussion of Simon's faith, Irene and Alice deconstructed the concepts of traditional religion, beliefs, and even God, and re -created them to be suitable for their current situation. "But perhaps these things can help us with the meaning of our representatives to some extent." It is because of the collapse of the traditional society and the world's meaning field that these young talents need new meaning fields to inhabit. Most of these renovated meaning fields have also separated from the traditional image, so we cannot say that young people in Rooney novels are conservative because they choose religion or marriage.

Irish writer Corm Tobin

In the observation of Rocom Tombin, a senior writer in Roui, many contemporary Irish young novelists have already placed "self" rather than "family" or "society" at the core of the novel. And Rooney also has a clear understanding of this. She pointed out that "love relationship is the main driving force of my work", although she placed her choice in classic novels such as "Emma" and "Anna Caleni" In the tradition of Na "and" Pigeon Wings ", the change of the world she lives may be more directly impact on it. Unlike the world where Tomin or Trefer is in the world, the former must face the impact of external pressure on individuals, and Rooney needs to face young people in a world of richness, stability and security. The general disillusionment and lack of encounter. Therefore, love relationship has become the core of the three ministers of the Runi.

Because of this, Rooney's novels have been criticized by many, thinking that her works' excessive attention to individual love relationships make her lack of description of a larger or more social perspective life. This criticism itself is a cliché and a strong prejudice. In "The Beautiful World, where are you", we can really understand To get a temporary mooring somewhere in a "suspended" world and how difficult and fragile it may be in it. And the most sad one is the self -pity, sensitivity, panic and fragility when they face intimacy and establish a relationship with others. These emotions and feelings do not represent the prestige of these young people, and they just reflect their caution and caution.

In the relationship between Alice and Felix, we can see each other's desire to welcome, constantly testify, and sensitivity to certain behaviors or words. These young people seem to be placed in a two -footed situation, so they become even more vulnerable when facing intimacy and love, so there will be a contradiction and drama conflict. Whether it is Felix's helplessness of his physical labor or the sensitivity of Eris, who is economically rich, or the promise that Erin and Simon are clearly love each other, but they dare not say ... they The state in love largely shows their situation in the world directly, and when the two who shared the similarity of disillusionment encountered together, they could only rely on them to create and only rely on them to create and only rely on them to create and create themselves. During the promise of the preface, these young people are often at a loss. We may also see the love in Rooney's novels as a sense of meaning. These young people show themselves in them, and more importantly, how to form together with others. In the letter written by Irene to Alice, when discussing the changes in the world and the meaning of life and the significance of life brought by it involved the problem of connection with others: "Is the meaning of the earth's life is never never never, never never, and no one is never never. The territory is close to a vague goal -such as developing increasingly more powerful technology and developing more and more complicated and obscure cultural forms? Will these things be naturally trendy, and the meaning of life is not old.变——去生活，和他人相伴？”正是在这里，鲁尼向我们揭示了她小说中的问题，美丽的世界不在远方，不在那些“模糊的目标”，美丽的世界就在“去生活， With others ".

G Marco Melgrati

Therefore, what the whole novel of "Beautiful World, where are you" is the answer to this title. Whether it is Irene, Alice or Simon and Felix, the beautiful world they long for or find The place is in their love and friendship. In the twenty -fifth section of the novel, when Irene and Alice, who were separated from the two places, met at the railway station, they realized what they long for each other in each other's hugs. "Because they saw something deeper at this moment, what was hidden under the surface of life, it was not unrealistic, but a hidden reality: a beautiful world that exists in all time and space." Then they became them as them. When the four lived in Alice's seaside house together, the dinner and chat between friends showed the appearance of the beautiful world vividly in the early morning, and it also made us realize that the "beautiful world" is not a certain one. The goals elsewhere or a certain space are places created when these young people choose to live with friends and lovers.

This place is between each other, between their hugs, between the dining table, between chatting between the sofa, the "good night" when they first appear upstairs to sleep in the morning dawn ... Only in-Between will appear "world"-Hannah Alren pointed out in her "The Life of the Man".

Create a world suitable for your own life

Antter's understanding of the "world" from her teacher Heidegger refers to the human life world. The empty physical space is not related to the natural world. The "uninhabited place" will only be desert in Arront, because the world appears between people's connection, life and action together. In "The Beautiful World, where are you", Rooney showed their construction and creation of their lives of their lives through four young people's attachment, communication, love and conflict of each other. We perceive our existence and the existence of the world in the interaction with specific people, and we perceive and build the atmosphere around us through our own body. Therefore Deep meaning.

Many comments regard the sex scenes in Rooney's novels as the display of the author's advanced gender and sexual concepts, but in addition, it is more important that our body is close to others. In the French feminist philosopher Lucy Illigue's "Ethics of Sexual differences", the touch and body of the lover are divine, and the richness and beauty of the body and soul can be realized through love activity. The sex in Lu Ni's writing is often simple and clean, but it is lingering. It is in sex that these young people with a sense of disillusionment become brave and firm, and give themselves to each other to truly realize that kind of deep and profound and others. The happiness and trust that the sincere connection can bring.

Many comments are concerned about modern film and television dramas or literary works. Young people pay attention to their private emotions, and it appears synchronously with self -concern. Just like the Japanese movie "Love in the Blossom", it no longer involves the attention of the tradition of "Tokyo Love Story", but turns to private space. The hidden behind it is the changes in contemporary social life and the attitude of life, and it itself does not have the advantages and disadvantages of value judgment. Therefore, criticizing Rooney's novels is weak, and it is likely to miss the part of her novel that can really touch us.

"Flower -like Love"

"Tokyo Love Story"

When talking about literature, Dellez reminds us that all a few literature is directly politically politically. It does not mean that it contains political information or discussions, but because its expression is to break through the territory and boundary of the subject. Thinking and creating a new may be the most charming part of the novel. At the end of the story of "Beautiful World, where are you", the new crown epidemic has begun to ravage. According to Irene's trustworthy trust to Alice, the latest progress in their lives: Irene has confidence in his love with Simon Marriage and mothers are still full of anxiety; Alice and Felix are also emotional, but Felix will still be worried about their different working situations and the relationship between the relationship formed ... On the surface, this ending seems to seem to be at the end of this ending. It was conservative, and Irene returned to a monogamy again, but according to the discussion of heterosexual marriage in the letter she wrote to Alice before, we can know that the choice of Irene is neither conservative nor radical. It is better to say that it is actually it actually. It is the "one way to spend life" that Irene wants. Just like their deconstruction of religion and God's traditional significance, they are also deconstructing the traditional monogamy system. In addition to the traditional marriage system we are accustomed to, Hegel has also formed a marriage in his "Spiritual Phenomenology". Relationship is regarded as a brave ethics.

We do not ask Runi to give a perfect answer or solution because it does not exist in itself. In Marcus Gabriel's "Why the World Doesn't Exist", he denied the complete and complete "world" promised by the traditional metaphysical school, and pointed out that it does not exist. And we appear in these different meaning fields.

What we need to pay attention to in the Runi novel is that her protagonists think and re -creation while thinking about the traditional sense system, just like the open views of the young people in the story of the Rouney story, often the open views of traditional gender roles and sexual tendencies, often often It can explore more possibilities of hidden possibilities. And these young people tirelessly discuss the social issues that make them anxious or interested, and then change them silently in life, while using themselves to create their own "beautiful world". This may be the most meaningful inspiration that the young people brought to us.

"Children will always be born. In macro, it may not matter if they are us. We must work hard to build a world they can live." It is the consciousness of disillusionment and in their thinking, exploration and confrontation that these young people have created a world suitable for their own lives, and "the birth of children" and the breeding of them -to Irene's view- - It is to "prove that the most ordinary quality of human beings is not violence and greed, but love and care", and all this also indicates a new possible beginning.

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Sally Runi's latest work "Beautiful World, where are you"

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Adapted TV series with the same name sweeping the global "Normal People"