When she was 13 years old, her father, who was a small government employee, had passed away. She and her mother depended on each other and lived in an apartment building. They lead a poor life, taciturn and seldom interact with others. She, a 13-year-old girl, is already in love, has a rich imagination, loves beauty, and hopes to see a broader and more exciting world. But at the age of 13, she is thin and undeveloped, low self-esteem, shy, and timid. The relationship between her and her mother is not close, her mother was too young to be a widow, always depressed and depressed. Relying on a little old-age pension, I was cautious and took my daughter to live. I didn't have the energy to pay attention to the psychology of the daughter who started to enter puberty, let alone the ability to give her daughter proper guidance.
One day, her house moved to a new neighbor. Everything in this new neighbor's house is so chic, peculiar and gorgeous to this 13-year-old girl who leads a poor life. He still has so many books in French, English, and even she can't speak any language. When she returned home and looked at her ten cheap books, she felt a sense of inferiority and awe in her heart. She hadn't met this new neighbor yet, but she began to imagine him, that he was an old gentleman with glasses and a white beard. She even dreamed of him that night. But when she saw this new neighbor, she was shocked. This new neighbor was completely different, young, handsome, and refined.
Then, the 13-year-old girl also discovered that he was a writer, had a good reading, learned a lot, but was also bohemian and suave. The 13-year-old girl was attracted by him like a demon. He was like a seductive mystery. She was very curious. She spied on him and tracked him around. One day, when she met him at the entrance of the corridor, she couldn't help but open the door for him, and he used his habitual or natural, affectionate eyes to smile at her, and said in a soft, intimate voice: Thank you ,Miss. "From this moment, she fell in love with him.
In short, she was fascinated by him. She was in love with him in adolescence, thinking about him day and night, this romantic and elegant A male writer, her neighbor. Everything exists only if it is related to him, and it has meaning only if it is connected to him. He changed her entire life.Originally in the class, her grades were mediocre, she became the first in the class; she read eagerly because she knew he liked books; she practiced the piano persistently because she thought he liked music.
This lonely 13-year-old girl lacks the love of her father, does not interact with her mother, and does not like to communicate with her peers. She couldn't reveal the truth to others, let alone give her guidance or reminders. She has no experience, no experience, she plunged into this self-willing fascination, and she fell deeper and deeper. Even later her mother remarried a wealthy man and took her out of this apartment in this city. In the few years she left, she still thought about him day and night, bought all the books he wrote, and read and read. She had only one thing in her mind: going back to Vienna, going back to him, and committing herself to him. Her fascination with him grew up in her heart like a will of steel.
She finally returned to Vienna at the age of 18. This once shy 13-year-old girl has become a beautiful young woman. Working as a clerk in a clothing store during the day, and standing downstairs at his house at night, waiting to see him, she would wait for several hours even if it was snowing. She met him a week later, but he didn't even know her. When they met again, he still didn't recognize her, but he asked her to eat, just like he asked other beautiful girls. After eating, he asked her to go to his house to chat, and she blurted out and said, "Okay!" She took the initiative to commit herself to him that night. The relationship between her and his lover lasted for three days, and then he was going to travel, and promised to look for her as soon as he came back, but he never looked again.
She was pregnant, and she broke contact with her family without wanting to be known by her mother. Unable to work, I just rely on selling a few pieces of jewellery to spend the most difficult days before and after childbirth. In that era, in their country, the wives of normal people gave birth in their own homes. And she can only go to the hospital obstetrics to give birth, crowded with people, unpleasant smell, full of groans, laughter, and screams. She suffered pain and torment here.
Then, she regarded the child she had paid an extremely expensive price for her all happiness.She wants her son to live in an affluent environment and receive a high-end education. She wants her son to enter his class and his circle of life. So she became a socialite, looking for a rich boyfriend and generous lover to provide her with the life she prepared for her son.
Actually, she had the opportunity to change the trajectory of her life later. Because a wealthy widower of aristocratic origin loved her and her son, and asked her to marry him.
But when she is no longer a girl, she still has the old dream of a girlhood: maybe he will summon her to him again. Even if it's just an hour. That's what she thinks.
This moment has really come, and her old dream has come true. He just called her, and for him he might just seduce a strange and beautiful woman casually, and she walked towards him. In the cold night, she didn't even take her coat, didn't say hello, and left the man who loved her, and regardless of whether the man who loved her would be laughed at as a fool, she ran with him. The next day he still didn't recognize who she was, but regarded her as a beautiful socialite.
Later, her son, who she regarded as her all happy son, fell ill and died. And she chose not to live anymore. So she wrote him a long letter, a letter telling her whole life after meeting him at the age of 13. But for him, this letter is still "a letter from a strange woman".
Her story, as early as 1948, was put on the screen by Universal Corporation of America.
Her story was released in 2005 by Xu Jinglei , who was still the head of domestic entertainment.
Her story was also adapted into a play by the drama director Meng Jinghui and put on the stage.
Her story will amaze everyone who has read it,But she didn't even have a name, she was just "a strange woman" to everyone.
She is the strange woman in the novel "A Letter from a Strange Woman" by the famous Austrian writer- Stephen Zweig .
She, regards this man who doesn't even know her name as the whole life, is it just because of his love for the brain?
Since childhood, the lack of father's love, the mother did not know how to provide companionship and guidance, and the inner fanaticism and inferiority complex when entering puberty overlapped, which could not be resolved without guidance. Coupled with some morbid effects given to women in a specific era environment. In the end, her reading has become read-only books written by him. So she turned a belief into such a crazy willpower, until it finally evolved into a tragedy that would destroy herself.
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