It is always a good choice to read suspense novels in summer, especially in a sleepy afternoon.
If it can indirectly popularize certain knowledge, it is undoubtedly the first choice for suspense novels.
Just after reading it, I think this book is just like that.
" Da Vinci Code "
Author: [USA] Dan Brown
Publishing House: People's Literature Publishing House
Original title: The Da Vinci Code
Translator: Zhu Zhenwu / Wu Sheng / Zhou Yuanxiao
There is a very important reason why this book is included in this month's book list is that - It is said that all the descriptions of art, architecture, documents and secret rituals in this book are accurate.
And when I read the wedge, I found that this is indeed the case.
The book first told readers that the director of the museum in the Louvre in Paris Jacques Sönier was shot by an attacker of albinism .
At the end of life, the curator put his body in the appearance of the famous painting "The Vitruvian" by Leonardo da Vinci, and left an elusive password next to the body.
There is a very interesting detail when describing this paragraph in the book:
The moment before the attacker shot the curator, in order to sound the alarm, the curator was pulling off a painting of Caravaggio from the wall vigorously.
Anyone who knows a little about European art knows that Caravaggio is a capricious, irritable genius artist, and the sword and dagger are things he carries with him.
His paintings are very impactful. Either the claustrophobic eroticism in the painting makes people bloody, or the fear, atrocities, pain, and sin he depicts make people resonate physically.
At the same time, Caravaggio, as a combination of villains and geniuses, , he has killed people.
Therefore, when it comes to the scene of the curator being shot, you will slightly realize that the content of this book is that there is fiction in reality, nonsense and seriousness in reality!
In the process of answering the password left by the curator, the author of easily throws you information chapter by chapter, just like a scattered puzzle, which seems messy, but in fact there are many rules to follow.
And it is also very good at arousing your curiosity. When you want to know how the crime scene is progressing, the author will temporarily put this down and start telling you about the murderer.
And when you start to wonder about the background of the attacker and how he will do it next, the author begins to show you other information slowly.
A seemingly huge net is intertwined with each other, each point triggers another point, and each person involves another person. The puzzle involves more and more knowledge points, making readers feel like they are trapped in a vortex of knowledge.
For example, after the director died, this string of numbers is an out of order arrangement of Fibonacci sequence .
Fibonacci sequence is a very famous sequence.
The sum of the two adjacent terms in this sequence is equal to the next term, and the further the sequence goes, the closer the quotient obtained by dividing the previous term and the next term number is to the golden section .618.
The author lists a large number of examples in the book to prove that this proportion exists in art, architecture, and nature.
For example, spiral pine cones , arrangement of leaves on plant stems, segmentation of insects, and the human body itself, etc.
Fortunately, the author is quite caring for ordinary readers, so even if you skip the artists, culturally rich ancient decorations, famous museums, and semiotic knowledge... it will not affect readers' reading.
As the plot progressed, I felt more and more that what attracted me was never who was behind the scenes, but the knowledge about religion, art, passwords, etc. derived by the author through these cases.
The author made me see the other side of religion in a self-consistent manner. He used a lot of artistic and semiotic knowledge, which forced me to examine the religion I believed in.
This kind of scrutiny is undoubtedly shocking because it is a kind of subversion.
This subversion does not mean that God does not exist, but how God's existence becomes what you see today through religion through religion, and how it becomes a pious faith recognized by millions of people.
and why this belief is considered justified, while others are considered wrong and evil.
The above are the advantages of this book, but its shortcomings are equally obvious and unbearable.
The author spent a lot of writing and ink in the book to describe the sacred women, and used a lot of information to prove the importance of women in history and to be erased.
However, when the author was writing, the halo of puzzles was almost all given to the male, and the heroine, a professional password cracker, played a role as a clue to the entire case, but relied on her past memory as a supplement.
The heroine reconciled with her grandfather because of the male protagonist; in the entire process of finding the answer, except for helping the male protagonist escape at the beginning, the rest of the progress was almost dominated by men.
Even when he was pointed at by a gun, the heroine - a professionally trained password-decipher detective, her reaction was to passively wait for the hero to save him.
In this scene, the heroine is not only described as a character in need of rescue, but is also portrayed as a drag.
And what is the setting of the male protagonist? He is a Harvard professor with no power! Yes, even if it is set like this, the author will arrange for men to save women.
In addition, except for the heroine who appears in the whole book, I only have two female characters, and the chapters they occupy only two chapters.
Not only that, one of the women was killed just after they appeared, while the other female character appeared in the last two chapters of the book.
Seeing this, combined with the sacred female symbols emphasized in the whole book, the stigma and obliteration of the myths, arts, religions involved can't help but feel ironic and like a thorn in the throat!
