Rimbaud's girl

Little cynic Arthur.Vitaly smiled secretly, the resentment in him that dislikes everything, in the words of later generations, is "angry youth"; this kind of anger comes from the instinctive awareness of the oppression of social class, but his level has not yet He is so tall that he wants to make changes or contribute to it, but he is simply angry at not being able to change his class of origin, and feels that the world is unfair to him, but actually he doesn't know how to change the status quo;

His creativity comes from that resentment, which is and will continue to be, embodied in words, that is, that indelible sharpness and lightness; people who are content with the status quo do not have this kind of resentment, More people are defeated and dragged down by the cruel reality; he has not been defeated by life, and he is doing well now, and he is getting closer and closer to his ideal. Maybe his writing style will change in the future, and so will the change. Normal, in the future, will only get better.

She is full of hope.

The short trip to the Crosswald estate was a very useful refresher for the Rimbauds.Arthur and Flaubert would chat in the smoking room after dinner every night. They talked about everything, from literature, art, music, to drama, opera, dance, the 1848 Revolution, the 1870 Franco-Prussian War, Napoleon I , Napoleon III, the Third Republic, the constitutional monarchy; Flaubert was not interested in politics, and it happened that Arthur was not very sensitive to politics. Their topics did not go beyond the borders of France. At most, they sometimes talked about Britain. In fact, the scope of discussion is quite Narrow, but can chat for a long time;

Vitaly will also participate in their chats and discussions. Her volume is much larger than that of her peers. She also studied literature-oriented courses at Mr. Pestel's house, learning Latin and writing.Her poetry is very average, lacking Arthur's sharp aura, but her literary theory is good.Mr. Pestel is very conservative, probably because he is afraid that the parents of the students will be dissatisfied with the curriculum. He did not let the students read Flaubert and Hugo, but let them read Dumas and George Sand (of course he did not let them read "La Traviata" by Alexandre Dumas).

She showed Flaubert her short essay on George Sand's masterpiece "Consuelo". I changed things and wrote it again.Flaubert asked her to rewrite it, in her own language.

She re-read "Kong Sue Luo", and then spent two hours rewriting a small essay, analyzing the characters, writing skills and writing style, and the theme.

A few days later, I wrote a short essay on "Pride and Prejudice" by the British writer Jane Austen.He also wrote a small paper analyzing the different personalities between George Sand and Jane Austen, which led to the completely different writing styles of the two writers.And according to Flaubert's request, I wrote a 1500-word essay on the topic.

Compared with George Sand, who has many romantic lovers by nature, Jane Austen, who lives in the English countryside, lives like a nun. The two people's personalities are fundamentally different. Austen, who only had a short-term relationship, believes in love more— —Of course there are prerequisites—George Sand's works always have a mentality of "what you can't ask for"; writers use words to tell the different lives of different characters, and "love" is the constant theme.

Flaubert believed that the Rimbaud brothers and sisters lacked the experience of life, mainly because they were too young, and Arthur was slightly better because he was a few years older.Arthur didn't tell his mentor about Verlaine, nor did Flaubert inquire about it. His social circle was relatively narrow, and he didn't know those young poets very well.

In short, in Flaubert's view, this is a young and talented literary teenager. Poetry embodies the shining fragments of his thoughts, prose poetry fully expresses his spiritual thinking, and his set of "psychic" theory Flaubert Accept some of the worshipers, thinking that he has his own opinions, which is also a necessary condition in literary creation;

As for Vitaly, she is still young and her work is relatively immature. She is more suitable for finding a "point" in the real society, and constructing a story from this to tell a character's "character"; Flaubert believes that writing "story" The first is to write "character", you have to create a convincing character so that your story can "touch people"; in your story, the person who is the creator needs to be "higher than and indisputably superior to Things written down".

The Rimbauds stayed at Crosswald for 15 days.

Originally, they only planned to stay for 10 days, but in the early morning of April 4, two days before their scheduled departure, Mrs. Caroline suffered a cerebral hemorrhage. By the time the servant found her in the morning, she had been dead for several hours.

Flaubert was so sad that he knelt beside his mother's bed.

There was no mistress at Crosswald Manor, and Vitaly had to assume temporary responsibilities, sending the steward to the doctor and the priest of the local church, asking what relatives and friends to send notices to, writing short letters, and asking the servants to send them; relatives and friends sent telegrams; she did not arrange funerals, many -->>

Ask the housekeeper and the priest about things, and Flaubert gave her the mother's money box for her to arrange various affairs.

Flaubert's niece, Caroline Conmanville, arrived after midnight. She was a frail woman, accompanied by her husband Conmanville.She didn't care about rest, and went to her grandmother's room as soon as she arrived at the manor.

After a busy day, Vitaly went to bed after 8 o'clock in the evening, and Mrs. Conmanville's crying woke her up.She lay on the bed, thinking that people are mortal.

She thought wildly for a while, got up, put on her nightgown, struck a match, and lit the kerosene lamp.

There was ivory white manuscript paper on the table, which was also good paper for writing letters.She picked up the pen, unscrewed the ink bottle, dipped the ink, and wrote on the paper.

"Gabriel."

Gabriel wrote about the death of Napoleon III in the last letter. The abdicated emperor lived in the suburbs of London for less than two years. He died of illness in January this year. Gabriel was sad for no reason. The whole letter talked about the emperor .He attended Eton with the Crown Prince Eugène-Louis Bonaparte, who remained at Eton when the Crown Prince went to Woolwich Royal Academy last autumn;

He is the same age as Eugene, only 5 months apart, Eugene was born in March, and Gabriel was born in August; he mentioned that neither the queen nor the crown prince liked him very much, because his mother was said to have had an affair with the emperor for a while His parents are in and out of the court, and they are the emperor's favored ministers, and they have been favored for 3 years; the emperor is not as poor as outsiders rumored, but he is not as rich as some people say, but no matter how much money he has, After all, death is inevitable.

At that time, Vitaly only thought that it was the first time that he saw the death of someone around him, and he was still the former French emperor, so it was inevitable that he had thought a little more; if it was her own, it seemed that there was no benefit.It may be that she had been in contact with Mrs. Caroline for too short a time after all, and she was not familiar with her, so she didn't feel much about her sudden death.Just an extension, thinking that everyone will die——

It is said that the first time a child realizes the concept of "death" will have a major impact on their life.

Just like Flaubert, his father was a surgeon, and he watched his father operate on patients since he was a child; doctors also dissected corpses, and Flaubert came into contact with "death" and "dead people" since he was a child. It had a huge impact, and he became a somewhat eccentric man because of it.

For example, he had many short-term and long-term mistresses, but he never considered marriage, let alone having children.He may think he is mentally "handicapped"—he has diagnosed epilepsy and unspecified mental illness—and therefore does not want to have children lest he pass this handicap on to the child; "horrible".This was mentioned in a reply to him by his mistress Louise Colette in the early years, and the two apparently discussed it.

She thought wildly for a while, dipped the ink again, and continued writing.

"I'm at Crosval. The owner here is Gustave Flaubert, author of Madame Bovary. You must have heard of him. Monsieur Flaubert's mother died today, and my whole All day is busy.

Death is not a one-and-done thing, there are still many things to do.The terrible thing is not death, but after you die, no one remembers you, no one loves you. "

The funeral was arranged very quickly, and it was held on April 4.

The Rimbaud brothers and sisters did not expect to be required to attend the funeral. They did not bring dark coats. They temporarily bought suitable black clothes in a tailor's shop in Rouen. They attended Mrs. Caroline's funeral and accompanied Flaubert all the way.

Although there is no public statement, all relatives and friends believe that the Rimbaud brothers and sisters are students of Flaubert.Mrs. Conmanville also specially talked to Vitaly, hoping that she could spend more time with Flaubert.

"I can't stay at Crossvale. I have a home of my own," sighed Mrs. Conmanville. "It's a pity that my uncle is left alone at home with no one to accompany him. You know he's not very well, I am very worried about him. It would be best if you could stay at the estate for a few more weeks, he needs company very much now."

Vitaly hesitated. "But Mr. Flaubert—I thought he would be quite used to living alone."

"Anybody needs company, and if he wants to be in his bedroom or his study, that's all right; but he'll always need someone to talk to. If it's about money, don't worry, uncle has a lot of money, It is enough for the two of you, and enough to maintain the manor." She smiled friendly, "Don't regard him as your teacher, just treat him as a common elder, he just lost his mother, he is a poor old man."