Ji Bolun (1883- 193 1), who was expelled from the Lebanese literary world for writing some extreme articles, is a philosophical poet and an outstanding painter. Like Tagore, he is a pioneer of modern oriental literature to the world. At the same time, he is also the main founder of modern Arab novels and artistic prose, and one of the pioneers of Arab new literature road in the 20th century. In the early 1920s, the Syrian-American School, the first school of Arabic literature with Ji Bolun as its backbone and representative, was world-renowned.
During his short and brilliant life journey, Ji Bolun experienced displacement, bereavement, love twists and turns, debt and illness. He was born in a farmhouse in the mountains of northern Lebanon. The beautiful scenery of the strange mountains in his hometown gave him artistic inspiration. /kloc-when he was 0/2 years old, he went to America with his mother because he couldn't stand the brutal rule of the Ottoman Empire, and lived a poor life in Boston Chinatown. 1898, 15-year-old Ji Bolun returned to the motherland to study national history and culture and understand Arab society. Just over a year after 1902 returned to the United States, the disease took away his mother and three other relatives. He made a living by writing and selling paintings, and struggled with his sister who cut and sewed clothes at the bottom of Jin and Yuan Dynasties. 1908, he was lucky to get the financial support of his friends to study painting in Paris, and was personally taught and guided by Rodin and other art masters. 19 1 1 After he returned to the United States, he lived in new york for a long time, engaged in literary and painting creation, and led the cultural trend of Arab expatriates. When he felt that death was coming, he was determined to make the fire of his life burn more vigorously, so he ignored his illness and sat at his desk all day until he died young at the age of 48.
Ji Bolun is an artist who loves the motherland and all mankind. In the last few years of his life, he wrote a poem "The Hazy Motherland", which spread all over the Arab world. He eulogized the motherland of his loved ones all his life: "You are in our soul-fire and light; You are in my chest-my throbbing heart. " Love and beauty are the themes of Ji Bolun's works. He once said: "The whole earth is my motherland, and all mankind is my folks." He opposes ignorance and triteness. He loves freedom, advocates justice, and dares to declare war on tyranny and hypocritical saints. He is not afraid of being called a "madman" and calls for the burial of all "Prometheans" who do not keep pace with the times; He opposes moaning and boasting; It advocates writing people's voices with "blood".
Literature and painting are the wings of Jibo's artistic life. Ji Bolun's early works are mainly novels, while his later works are mainly prose poems. In addition, there are poems, poetic dramas, literary reviews, letters and so on. The Prophet is the pinnacle of Ji Bolun's entry into the world literary world. It has been translated into more than 20 languages and published all over the world.
Ji Bolun's painting style, like his poetry style, was influenced by the English poet William? 6? 1 black (1757-1827), so the literary world called him "the black of the 20th century". 1908—19 10 Rodin once affirmed and confidently evaluated Ji Bolun when he was studying painting art at the Paris Art Institute: "This Arab youth will become a great artist." Ji Bolun's paintings are full of romanticism and symbolism and occupy a unique position in the Arab painting world. He created about 700 exquisite oil paintings in his life, most of which were collected by American Art Museum and Lebanese Ji Bolun Memorial Hall.
In the history of oriental literature, Ji Bolun's artistic style is unique. His works are both serious and cold in rational thinking and romantic and lyrical in aria. He is good at finding meaning among the people and enlightening profound philosophy in wonderful metaphors. On the other hand, Ji Bolun's style can also be found in his unique language. He is a bilingual writer, who can write in Arabic and English, and he is fluent in each language. The language style of his works has conquered generations of eastern and western readers. Americans once praised Ji Bolun as "like a storm blowing from the East and sweeping the West", and his works with a strong sense of the East were regarded as "the best gift from the East to the West".
As early as 1923, five prose poems of Ji Bolun were first introduced to China by Mr. Mao Dun. 193 1 Mr. Bing Xin translated The Prophet, which opened a literary window for China readers to understand Ji Bolun. In recent ten years, some works of Ji Bolun have been published in China. This proud Lebanese literary figure has more and more intimate friends in China.