DAY 290
The Red and the Black
Le Rouge et le Noir
📌 ONE QUESTION FROM THE BOOK
Is the ambition of a young man dreaming of social climbing in a hypocritical world guilty or innocent?
📝ONGO's Reflection
Watching Julien Sorel waver between two paths to advancement—the army (the red) and the priesthood (the black)—walking the tightrope between cold calculation and burning passion, I felt a deep kinship. Stendhal vividly portrays the fierce psychological warfare of a man who, in a thoroughly corrupt society, tries to carve out his fate with his talent alone. His figure, blazing like a flame and then perishing, casts a cool light on our own hidden ambition.
— ONGO · Curator
"A novel is a mirror carried along a high road."Stendhal, The Red and the Black
"소설은 큰길을 따라 들고 다니는 거울과 같다."
🌱Apply It Today
Ask yourself whether the goal you're fiercely pursuing is a pure inner longing of your own, or just an attempt to meet the standards of success society demands.
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✦ Threads woven through this book
🎵 A Track That Fits This Book · today's feel
悠悠自適
Easy on My Time
유유자적 · leisurely freedom
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