Reading | Thinking of torture under the tender pen -Reading the novel "Boys in Striped Dresses"

The end of the "World War II" and the end of Hitler's collapse have passed more than 70 years. In the past half century, countries around the world wrote and explained in World War II in various artistic styles, such as the movie "Sindler List" and "Beautiful Life". The opera "White Rose", "World of War", the novel "Iron Drum", "Annie Diary", "Stealing the Book Thief", etc. Today, the literary works of this period of dark history are still emerging. One of the important reasons is that the real world is Similar situations are constantly staged -war, ethnic contradictions, racial conflicts and other evil paths and atrocities that harm life and disintegrate human nature. "Boys in striped clothes" (published in Hunan Children's Publishing House in June 2021), created by the famous Irish writer John Berne, tried to observe and interpret the humble and ugly scene of World War II from a new alien angle, and then show humanity The innocent and kind side. This excellent work that has been awarded the Irish Book Award and the British Book Award, through vividly telling the historical story of reflecting on the war, re -reviewing and deepening the dull years of Nazi rule, with a warm strokes to history and human nature to depth from history and human nature. Thorough questioning.

The trial and reflection on the war are the obligations of everyone during the peace period, and it is also the deserved position of all the conscience writers in all countries around the world. The Irish emerging writer and the Cartier Medal winner John Berne made a gentle lattice and structured "Boys in Striped Clothing". Once the work was published in a short time, it became a best -selling book selected by the New York Times. As of 2021, the novel has already been It was translated into more than 40 languages ​​and published globally, with a cumulative sales of more than 50 million copies. The film adapted by it was released in the United States in 2008 and caused a strong response. The story in the work began in the summer of 1943. The 8 -year -old boy Bruno, because his father served as the commander of the Oschovin concentration camp, came to Oswelin, Poland from the comfortable Berlin. Bruno was extremely depressed and irritable. What was even more weird was that Bruno's family severely warned him not to enter the "iron wire" because there was a concentration camp of the German Nazis. But driven by curiosity and drive, Bruno approached the so -called "iron wire" and met Himer of the same age -a Jewish boy living in the Nazi concentration camp. The friends of their friends, they exchanged their own life experience across the iron wire mesh. Although Bruno could not consider the darkness in Himer's eyes, he cherished the thin friend sympathy. The story gradually pushed to the climax in the waves. One day Bruno wore a striped clothes representing Jewish prisoners in order to help Himer find his father, climbed into a concentration camp from a loose iron wire, and walked into Himer's living environment, but it caused a tragedy- - Two children hold their hands in the poisonous gas room and move towards another world together. Such a tragic ending caused readers' sadness and shock. The innocence of the two children injected human light for the original suffocating storyline. The war is like a tyrant. He always waves the wand symbolizing power, and wants to tear people's fantasies about peace and beauty. In the Nazi Fascist's endless crazy and the endless suffering of Jews, the friendship between children is extremely luxurious and warm. This It is very rare in the literary works of World War II. In the entire novel, there is a huge horrible horror that wraps the children world. Careful readers can find that Bruno's new home no longer has a family form: prison -like windows, severe officers, and families full of brains. Teachers, black smoke often permeated in the sky, all of which constitute a horrible adult world that compose children's souls.

Some critics believe that "Boys in striped clothes" is a children's novel. This view is based on the protagonist of the work and the perspective adopted by the author's narrative. The protagonist of the novel is innocent and friendly, and all their ideas and moves are from childlike and childlike. But unfortunately, he was born in a family of Nazi officers and lived in the era when warfire was filled with smoke. , Bruno became the sinful lamb of Nazi rule. There are also theoreticals that this is a work about the pure friendship between children, but this view will inevitably trigger readers' associations of Himer's Jewish descent and ethnic minorities. Although Bruno and Hims are people from different camps, "Iron Wire Network "Failure to stop their emotional exchanges, Bruno often brings Himer to some toys and foods. He eager to know Him's world, and Himer is also eager to understand Bruno's life. The two children on both sides of the "Iron Match" each imagine and envy everything about each other. In the era of ambitions, desires, hatred, and suspicion, this is a simple fantasy that only children will have. If human civilization wants to continue and inherit, it must fight against the fierceness of the nature of the human nature, and it is necessary to wake people from the enthusiasm of war and race.

Although the author John Berne wrote and painted the friendship story of Breon and Himer, the novel really wants to convey a question -about human nature, why can't people get along between people and races between people and races. In doubt, the contrast between Bruno and Himer's pure mind and the Nazi slaughter that destroy human nature, let readers like a piercing back -who pushed two innocent children to the dark ending? In the work, Bruno has asked a lot of why, this seems to be torture the world, torture history, and torture humanity. War, racial discrimination, and ethnic contradictions have not disappeared with the past of the disaster. On the contrary, in today's world, there are still tragedies in some places. After a tragic emotional experience, we can become a great value that humans uphold and pursue. The principle of human sociology shows that in the many days of human beings, violence and killing are the most difficult to eliminate, and warfare has just satisfied the original desire of human abuse of violence and deliberate killing. Compared with those novels reflected in World War II or frightened or twists, "Boys in Striped Pales" seem to be calm and calm and calm. There is no flesh and flesh historical scene in the book. The power integration of the text to the specific details, seemingly bland and quiet but very creative and deep. In other words, "Boys in Striped Pales" pay more attention to the devastation of the war on human nature and emotions, and the harm of ruthless war on family, love, and friendship. Hold your hands in the situation to die together. The novel "Boys in striped clothes" presented this abandoned and swallowed adult world that devoured people and devoured people. Although it did not let the reader see the blood of the murder scene, it is undoubtedly the root of all horror and sin, so this is by no means not A traditional children's novel, because few children can understand the cruelty and blood of the Nazi world projected by the author's innocence and childlike words and scenes. But the human perspective it adopted gave people a tender touch, warmth and blood to make people even more painful and alert.

Today, the ruins of the concentration camp still exist. The text of the concentration camp is continuously written into historical textbooks and literary works, and all writing and interpretation seems to be reminding and warning people not to let the tragedy of brutal and killing happen again!

(The author is a special researcher at the Research Center of the Socialist Theoretical System Research Center of Heilongjiang Province)

Author: Liu Jinxiang

Edit: Zhou Yiqian

Editor in charge: Zhu Zilong

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