In recent years, the divorce rate in my country has been rising continuously, and divorce has become a common phenomenon.
How to divorce to be safe and secure? Is there a book called "The Guide to Divorce"? --have.
Let’s talk about the novella of Su Tong , "The Guide to Divorce", and its sequel "Married Men".
Su Tong is a famous contemporary writer in my country. He has a particularly thorough observation of marriage and women. He is famous for describing women and their marriage life. Of course, he himself also said that he is also good at writing men.
The male protagonist of "Divorce Guide" is Yang Bo, who is a married man with a stable job, a virtuous wife, and has a young child. However, he fell into a lingering extramarital affair, and the woman showed up and asked him to divorce.
He started the divorce action, but was blocked everywhere. His wife had a fuss with him, was beaten by his brother-in-law, and was also sarcastic from the unit and society. His wife took an excessive amount of sleeping pills and sent to the hospital for emergency treatment, but his behavior was very cold.
Yang Bo's philosophy teacher wrote a book called "The Guide to Divorce", and gave him advice, but what he talked about was useless.
Later, his marriage was not divorced, and his lover broke up with him, but the unreliable "Divorce Guide" was published.
Yang Bo was very angry about this and said to the customer in the bookstore:
"Don't buy this book, don't be fooled."
Later, how was this person named Yang Bo?
In Su Tong's other novella "Married Man", Yang Bo appears again. In that era, it was popular to "go into business". He resigned from his unit, founded an information company, and moved to a new apartment.
However, his company is not well run, and his relationship with his wife is not good either. He is in love with other women and has a physical illness that men don’t want to get.
Over time, all kinds of negative emotions finally dragged him down. The last straw that overwhelmed him was his child. When his wife was gone, the child was thrown to him alone, making him furious.
Finally, on New Year's Day, he jumped down from the balcony and said goodbye to the world.
On the surface, these two novellas are coherent, both about marriage life, and the hero is both a middle-aged intellectual named Yang Bo.
However, judging from the content, Yang Bo in these two novels is not the same person.
First of all, the order of the story is reversed in the time of the story. The story of "The Guide to Divorce" took place in 1991 because the novel mentions Gulf War , while the story of "Married Man" took place in the late 1980s. A person who died in the late 1980s would not be able to live until 1991.
Secondly, in the two novels, the hero's wife has different names. In "The Guide to Divorce", his wife is Zhu Yun; in "Married Men", his wife is Feng Min. Moreover, there are also big differences in their personalities and styles. The age of the children is also different. The children in "Married Men" are still babies, and the children in "Divorce Guide" can already be taken out for a walk.
"Divorce Guide" and "Married Man" are classic works of Su Tong's novella. In a short time, they describe the helplessness and pain of marriage life. It is worth noting that although the protagonists of the two novels have the same name, they are not the same person. Just like the "An", "Joe", "Lin" and so on in the early short stories of Annie Baby are not the same person, and the name is just a symbol in the novel.
Su Tong wrote about many unfortunate twisted marriages, which made readers have some speculations about his own marriage life.
In fact, his marriage life is very low-key and happy. His wife is a middle school classmate. They met very early, but it has been many years since they fell in love and got married.
Su Tong's wife is also very supportive of his writing and has made a lot of contributions in the family, which has left Su Tong without any worries and has made a world in the literary world.
