Reading through a thick novel is a matter of patience that not everyone can do.
Finally, Mo Yan – a Chinese writer who won the Nobel Prize for Literature admitted that he sometimes spends hours surfing videos, then blames himself for finding them useless – “But most of those videos are nonsense.” , he wrote.
He said: Short videos are only a phenomenon in a certain period. Reading books is something he should do, and deserves to do whenever he has free time.
I see: Young people are addicted to short videos on social networking platforms, such as TikTok because they are attractive in the short term. Just keep scrolling, and you will find a video that suits your “taste”. Or at least, there’s something new right away, instead of sticking your head into long, text-filled pages.
Addiction to short videos shows that young people are hungry for information, but in a moderate amount, and always eager to see what the next video is. Now, who has the patience to read? Treasures of life, Red Sorghum, Sandalwood shaped… Or attentively follow the actions of a character described across dozens of pages?
It must be said again and again, it is necessary to clearly distinguish between entertainment and acquiring academic knowledge and literary appreciation. During the Covid-19 pandemic, only when I was at home working, not going out and having free time, did I have the opportunity to read all of Crime and Punishment by Russian writer Dostoevsky. But it must also be said that it is very patient, like chewing empty rice, but the aftertaste is sweet.
Or like in the classic work In Search of Lost Time by French writer Marcel Proust, in the opening paragraph, I saw many people complaining because just describing the scene of him lying in bed as he was about to go to sleep took nearly 10 pages of the book. . So much so that writer Anatole France: “Life is too short and Proust is too long.”
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While filmmakers are trying to make films as short as possible to reach young people, books with a large number of pages will frighten young people.
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