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The Mona Lisa and love, a communication that works through the looks. During their visit to the Louvre, young Chinese Luo Ji and Zhuang Yan also experience the unfathomability of the image of Leonardo da Vinci . "The meaning of her smile, the more I look at her, seems to be different every second," says Luo Ji. And Zhuang Yan says, "His smile has something that the Sophons and the Trisolarians will never understand."
The Trisolarians are known from the first part of Cixin Liu's novel trilogy, The Three Suns, which is an important international. Multi award winning success of the young Chinese science fiction was. Trisolaris is in this novel a very distant planet with three suns, whose inhabitants have targeted the earth and want to conquer. The Sophons are their hypersensitive perception instruments that oversee all human communication.
Towards the end of the first volume, the Trisolarians fought their way to their conquest and destruction. The Chinese astrophysicist Ye Wenjie had alerted her with a message in space on our planet – although she was explicitly warned by a Trisolarier pacifist. It was an act of despair and revenge, a reaction to the brutality of the Cultural Revolution in China that Ye Wenjie and her family had to live through. At the beginning of the second volume, the fleet is still at 4.21 light-years, so ships will take four hundred years to reach Earth.
Cosmic Connections
Lots of time to develop an effective defense technique. develop in space and a complex strategy. A lot of time for practice in new historical dimensions and time flares. The main problem with this is the interception of the Sophons, who hardly hide anything. The Trisolarians, on the other hand, struggle against the human system of truth and lies and the resulting ability to deceive. All is truth for them, they know no pretense, no false.
Narrative in science fiction follows its own dialectic, the perspectives move constantly from the intimate to the cosmological and backwards. The longest detours lead quickly to the destination. Simple people, who have to deal with many everyday things, suddenly find themselves in unmanageable cosmic contexts.
Narrator and science fiction heroes return to the great question of history – which is a historic social change By supra-individual skill, a kind of history spirit, the production reports, or the individual, the singular person, takes place. And: Can you plan the story in a long-term overview? Cixin Liu is intimately Hegelian, making his novels mythical and psychedelic, and sometimes funny. Everywhere Western models shine, Philip K. Dick with his iconoclastic visions of LSD, and of course Isaac Asimov with his founding cycle
"The Dark Forest" leaves the People's Republic of China, where the first volume has played, behind . He goes to Europe and the United States and then to space, where a vast fleet of land spaceships is set up to withstand the invasion fleet. The step in the intergalactic has been hailed by English and American critics. But the new epic dimension shakes the particular tension of the first volume – in which a totalitarian country throws a clear vision of the distance from space.
The Weird Methods of Wall Showers
The UN Takes The Earth's Struggle Against Trisolarists, Their Strategy Is Focused on Some Singular Characters Who Are Presumed to Have Ideas for Salvation and who will be endowed with enormous resources and powers for this work. These are almost sacred instances, strategic black boxes. Big deal. "We call them wall showers, because this ancient Asian expression for meditators reflects the unique nature of their task."
The methods of wall showers are sometimes very bizarre in their despair. One of them, the former US Secretary of Defense, is looking for an elderly man in the Afghan mountains, for example. In a cave, he is waiting for death. The mural show brings some volumes of the cycle of the Asimov Foundation, in Arabic. The old man thank you, he only read the first volume so far. He is the most wanted terrorist of the 20th century in the United States and he was hunted with cruise missiles or drones. The great enemy of the western world. "A natural death would be the greatest triumph of this man and a symbol of his failure in the fight against terror, and now he was on the verge of victory." The triumph, however, remained fiction and utopia. In 2008, the novel was published in China. Osama bin Laden was shot dead by an American commando in 2011.
The political thinking and action of the wall showers are particularly bizarre in the young Luo Ji, who uses his learning and his wall-life years to live a life in paradise with her lover organizing. His discipline is cosmosociology – the old Ye Wenjie, whom he met on the grave of his daughter, was still attached to him. A science that combines a rigorous methodology with a fantastic imagination, like the famous psycho-historian of Asimov, Hari Seldon, and with the Cixin Liu dizzyingly inducing complex modern physics with moments of zen philosophy – towards the 39; west. "And if I love you, what is it for you?" Is cited as a slogan for the private (and military) interaction of the future, the "Wilhelm Meister."
For a Sophonenabhörsicherere communication could also be the source of inspiration Mona Lisa be. "Some experts say that computers will never be able to read the eyes," says Luo Ji in front of the board. Then they decide to do a test, each of them comes up with a sentence and tries to pass it only through the eyes.
Methods of Zen Philosophy
Cixin Liu: The dark forest. Novel. From Chinese by Karin Betz. Heyne Verlag, Munich 2018. 815 pages, 22.90 CHF.
(Süddeutsche Zeitung)
Created: 09.07.2018, 15:00
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