Photo courtesy of People’s Literature Publishing House on the cover of the Chinese version of “Abandoned Soldiers”
China News Service, Beijing, April 12 (Reporter Ying Ni) At the end of 2020, a Netflix American drama called “The Rear Wing Abandoned Soldier” directly exploded, and was selected as the highest-scoring British and American new drama of the year on Douban Movies, with nearly 360,000 people commenting. out 9.0. The play easily won the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress and Best Director.
The original work of this wonderful American drama “Abandoned Soldiers” was released by the People’s Literature Publishing House a few days ago. The Chinese translation was translated by translators and young writers. The chess grandmaster, the FIDE senior coach, and the current women’s world number one The chess player Hou Yifan serves as a technical consultant, and the majority of drama fans, chess fans and book lovers can finally get what they want and come to a reading without barriers and super fun. As soon as the new book was released, it was already on Douban New Book Express.
The book tells the story of Beth Harmon, an 8-year-old orphan in Kentucky who accidentally got into chess in the late 1950s and eventually grew into a grandmaster. Author Walter Tevez said: “I feel like my characters are all alike, they’re all isolated individuals doing things that aren’t fully understood or deeply empathized by mainstream society, and I’m always drawn to people or things like that. “He started learning chess at the age of eight, like Beth, spent two years in a children’s rehabilitation center, was given sedative pills, had a collection of forty or fifty chess books, and participated in nearly 20 chess tournaments. , is a Class C chess player with a rating of 1423.
He admits that “Abandoned Soldier” has a strong autobiographical character. The reason why he wrote the female protagonist “The Rear Wing Soldier”, he believes that there is no physical or biological reason why women can’t become the same top grand masters as men. In his constructed world, Beth is not limited to women’s competitions, and chess is a game based purely on strength rather than gender.
In the classic literary women’s gallery, there are Jane Eyre, Anna Karenina, Madame Bovary, Scarlett, Mrs Dalloway and so on. Whether they dare to pursue love, or dare to pursue themselves, or struggle to cope with reality, they have comforted and inspired generations of female compatriots, and also inspired generations of male readers. And Beth’s new personality will undoubtedly add a unique new member to the women’s gallery. Biographer Casey Kvass said: “Beth Harmon was a young woman who was full of power…a woman recognized and needed in the 2020s.”
Beth pushes the boundaries of women’s activism. As the author said, the chess world was a typical male-dominated world at that time. The birth of Beth changed this situation and gave ordinary readers the opportunity to see a brand-new world from the perspective of Beth, a talented woman. world.
In fact, good writers are androgynous. Beth can be said to be a model of a male author who writes without prejudice from a female perspective, and even commendably shows the prejudice women endure in this world, and surpasses women in the past. Most of the works focused on marriage and love have moved to a broader field. And this is the current situation. Women from all walks of life are making big or small changes with their own efforts.
It is worth mentioning that the Chinese version of “The Rear-wing Gambit” has prepared 14 classic chess openings, variations or classic chess positions for readers on the chapter page of each chapter, such as Rear-wing Gambit Opening, Sicilian Defense, Spain Opening, Rieti’s opening, Carlo Kahn defense, etc., I hope to bring a unique chess atmosphere that fits the development of each chapter’s story while reading the wonderful stories. (Finish)Return to Sohu, see more
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