Rimbaud's girl

Vitaly hadn't been sure what to write early on.

Because of the fall of the Second Empire, France set off a wave of "shattering the old class". A group of bourgeois upstarts rose up. In terms of creation, that is, many writers have begun to write works that reflect the social status quo and class contradictions.In fact, this wave started a long time ago. "Madame Bovary" is a work based on real events and artistically processed to reflect reality.

Emma's fate represents the typical fate of a small group of women in Europe: they try to change their destiny and improve their class, they are naive and vain, and they foolishly believe in such illusory things as "love", but they are rejected by men with higher social class. Ruthless teasing and cold abandonment.

"Consuelo" has a fairytale ending, but "Madame Bovary" tells a sad and cruel reality story coldly. "Les Miserables" and "Notre Dame de Paris" are all works that reflect class contradictions, and the influence of these works is inseparable from the improvement of the literacy rate of the entire European population.

The emergence and development of the printing press triggered a great revolution in culture and education. Printed materials became cheap and fast, and the media form of newspapers that appeared subsequently became the most popular popular reading material. Alexandre Dumas was the first writer to benefit from the popularity of newspapers. With a high income and extremely high output, he is the most popular popular writer at the same time as Victor Hugo, Balzac and George Sand.

Writing may make you a little rich, but it is very rare to make a sudden fortune in a book, and only non-stop writing is possible.Flaubert's works are not many, because he has income from the manor, so the financial pressure is not great; he has no ambition to enter the French Academy, he is not very utilitarian, and he doesn't like politics. Generally speaking, he is more Buddhist. of.

When it comes to class differences, Vitaly is deeply touched: Isn’t Arthur Rimbaud in history always struggling because of economic reasons?And Van Gogh.Although the Rimbaud family and the Van Gogh family had no worries about food and clothing, they were unable to concentrate on art all the time due to the poor economy caused by their low social status.

Although Zola worked as a clerk in a bookstore in his early years, his monthly salary of 100 francs was enough for him to live in Paris alone. You must know that the living expenses of 1300 francs were enough to support a family of four in Paris without starvation. You know this era The purchasing power of the franc is still quite good.Zola has a salary of 1200 francs a year, and he must be able to live well by himself.But of course, who would think too much money?Money, of course, the more the better, and when he understands that writing can make him rich overnight, how could he not work hard for it.

And people like Oscar Wilde, Flaubert, Cézanne, Degas, etc., who have a little social status and a good economy, can focus on the profession or industry they are interested in, become famous and have a family, live comfortably, and have a longer artistic life.

If you can live to 60 years old, who wants to see God in your 30s?

Vitaly has been struggling with how to improve her family's social status.

These days, the publishing of poetry anthologies rarely makes money. Like Byron, the first edition of an anthology of poetry published in the UK can sell 1 copies. Phenomenal works and poets.Generally speaking, if a poet sells 500 volumes of poetry, it is regarded as a hit, and if 1000 volumes are sold, it is considered a bestseller; France has a larger population than the UK, but the difference in the number of relatively wealthy families is not large. If "A Season in Hell" can sell 1000 volumes, publishers feel that It was a pleasant surprise, at least it was a small profit, and Arthur also got 800 francs for the manuscript.

The amount of manuscript fee is not important at the initial stage, what is important is that with a fairly popular poetry collection, from then on, the door of French literary and art circles has really opened to him.

Becoming a poet and writer is currently one of the few ways to improve social class.

And the popular themes now will also be works that reflect class conflicts and the essence of human nature.

Tragedy, human tragedy, the more tragic the better, the more miserable the better.

Vitaly Rimbaud's first book is titled "".

Mia, a poor girl from a small town, came to the capital Paris at the age of 16. During the heyday of the Second Empire, she first found a job as a maid in a banker's suburban villa. Went to downtown Paris; the banker kept a mistress outside, and only came back once in a while; when the banker found out that there was a young maid in the house, he seduced Mia with sweet words, and after Mia became pregnant, she was kicked out by the angry mistress out of the house;

The nephew of the hostess, the noble young master Raymond, found out that Mia was driven away, and found Mia, who was almost desperate to jump the Seine, and rented a small apartment for her. illegitimate daughter, Raymond sent away the illegitimate daughter who had not had time to name;

A few years later, the naive Mia realized that Raymond only regarded her as a mistress and would not marry her. She painfully realized that "love" is bullshit, and rich people are beasts without conscience; Raymond loved the illegitimate child so much that he changed the mother and son to a spacious residence; a few months later, Mia strangled her own child in front of Raymond. , and leave the new apartment that night;

But Mia didn't start her new life either. She went back and forth to find the illegitimate daughter who was sent away, but found that the child had already died of illness. Desperate and crazy, Mia set fire to the banker's house, and the banker and his wife died of arson. accident; and Mia jumped off the Seine when the sky was dim.

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"This is a Greek tragedy, serialized in the "Shangri-La" daily in January 1875.

The daily "Shangri-La" is a small regional newspaper with a circulation of only about 1 copies. Compared with the circulation of 6 copies of "Le Figaro", the current political and current affairs newspaper with the largest sales volume in Paris, it is a younger brother .

Halfway through the serialization, half of the Parisian crowd was talking about this.This novel brings together poor beauties, dandy aristocratic young masters, hated bankers, and typical wives, and describes the lives of the poor and lower classes (although the length is not much), and also describes the life of the rich;

Mia strangled her own child with her own hands, just like Medea who strangled her own children. This kind of intense emotion should only appear in ancient dramas, only allowed to appear on the theater stage, and someone wrote about this human tragedy. In the novel, the heroine is no longer a lovely poor beauty, but a crazy cruel woman, and she cannot be liked by male readers.

An article satirizing this article immediately appeared in Le Figaro, and the author vigorously criticized the author Vitaly Rimbaud for creating a "female character who is not likable at all", which does not conform to the universality of the contemporary French people. Values ​​are too intense and extreme. Women should not have such dangerous criminal thoughts, and the thoughts of the female author are probably also very dangerous;

Zola, who already regarded Vitaly as "one of his own", immediately wrote a critical article with opposing views, saying that this person is narrow-minded, his way of thinking is still in the 15th century, and he lacks life experience. Vitaly chose this The material is not based on a Greek tragedy, but a real event: a mother couldn't bear the suffering of her seriously ill child, but she had no money for medical treatment, so she strangled her child to death with her own hands in despair. In the end, the mother went crazy and committed suicide by jumping into the river; poverty The suffering of the people is far more sad than any tragedy you have seen. If you cannot understand the despair and pain of this mother, you are a "fake person" who stands above the masses.

The other party insists that women must be "truthful, kind and beautiful", and the portrayal of female characters should also be based on this "truth, kindness and beauty".

Flaubert forbade Vitaly to write his own article to refute, but he picked up a pen and powerfully refuted the stereotypes against women.

In fact, he also felt that the character of the heroine created by Vitaly was a bit too extreme, but this was a kind of resistance that Mrs. Bovary did not do. Killing her own child meant talking to the "past" and "shameful extramarital affairs." "Break, Mia's fate should have changed, she should have a new life, this is the ending that the masses like to see, but she gave Mia a more realistic ending: Mia can't decide her own destiny, she is cowardly, helpless She blindly pinned her hope on the noble young master Raymond, but failed to realize in time that it is impossible for a high-class young master to have any love myths with poor girls. The class background caused Mia’s tragedy. , class contradictions are always sharp and irreconcilable.

The written debate between the two sides was booming, and even the semi-reclusive Victor Hugo became interested in this book, and asked someone to collect a serial in the newspaper, and read it with great interest.

Before, the people from Vita Lito asked him for a recommendation for "A Season of Hell". He was kind enough to copy a copy and sign it, but he forgot about it afterwards.Seeing the name "Vitale Rimbaud", he remembered in a daze that he had seen another Rimbaud's name before.

After "A Season in Hell" was published, Vitaly sent Hugo a collection of poems. After reading it, he was very pleased that it was indeed well written, and that he did not fall into the stalwart title of "Academician of the French Academy". Write to Flaubert and ask what this Rimbaud has to do with him.

Now he remembered this matter again, so he simply asked together.

After Flaubert received Hugo's letter, he called Vitaly over and asked her to read a text message attached to his letter.

The author has something to say: *This chapter is too difficult to write, and I have been holding back for several days.

*The French Academy of Sciences (Academiefran?ais) is also translated as "French Academy". The number of academicians is fixed, only 40, and new academicians must be added after the death of an academician.

There are 5 academic schools under the Institut Française: Literature, Science, Fine Arts, Humanities, and Academics.It is said that the five academic colleges are all parallel, but it is recognized that Academiefran?ais is the ultimate goal.

Academiefran?ais famous academician——

Philosophers and writers: Montesquieu, Voltaire, Merimee, Hugo, Musset, Dumas fils;

Mathematicians: Fourier, Guizot, Poincaré;

Anthropologist: Claude Levy-Stor.

* Poincaré (JulesHenriPoincaré) is also very fraudulent. Bertrand Russell (British writer, mathematician, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1950) believes that he is the greatest figure in France at the beginning of the 20th century.His topological problem "Poincaréjection" was not solved until 2003.His family was well off, his cousin Raymond Poincaré was the President of France, and Raymond's younger brother Lucien was a physicist.

He was also born in 1854. He was elected as a member of the French Academy of Sciences in 1887 at the age of 32, and in 1908 as a member of the French Academy of Sciences.He is handsome, and when he was young, he looked like Ryan Philippe with a beard (Philippe is a French surname).The cousin president is also very handsome.