So the sculptor took her away from the monastery, and they lived in a place far away from the hubbub. The sculptor takes the girl as the prototype and prepares to build his most perfect statue-"Angel's Smile". ?
However, contrary to expectations, he created works such as Children's Smile, Lover's Smile and even Prostitute's Smile, but in any case, the sculptor could not shape the girl's "angelic smile" into a spirit. ?
The sculptor was desperate, ruined all his works, abandoned the girl on a cold night and went out to vent alone. The girl was shattered by happiness and immediately threw herself into the beautiful and silent Seine River. Became a real angel. ?
The sculptor came home drunk, but he couldn't see the angelic girl. He looked around anxiously, but he couldn't find the trace left by the "angel". After Easter, he happened to walk through the market and saw a "death mask" hanging in a shop. When the shop assistant told him that this mask was cast by an unknown folk artist based on the smiling dead face of an unknown girl who drowned in the Seine, the sculptor disappeared in panic. ?
The last sentence of the novel is the literary eye of the article. The author wrote: Now the death mask has long been lost, but its replicas are all over many cities in Europe. He always wears an infinite smile and seems to be talking to us about the samadhi of death. ?
Extended data:
The Unknown Girl by the Seine is a collection of essays written by Feng Zhi. This book mainly tells the story of a sculptor who met a girl in a monastery, gave up because she couldn't draw a girl's smile, and finally the girl died on the banks of the Seine.
This is a romantic and sad story. But as a poet's author, he is not only telling a story, but also discussing various life problems with people through stories, such as man and god, life and death, life and art, reality and heaven. Through the story, the author reveals the paradox of life.
Feng Zhi (1905- 1993), formerly known as Feng Chengzhi, was born in Zhuoxian County, Hebei Province. 192 1 was admitted to Peking University, and after 1923, he began to publish new poems under the influence of the new culture movement. 1927 published the first book of poetry "Song of Yesterday" in April, and 1929 published the second book of poetry "Journey to the North and Others" in August, recording the teaching life in Harbin after graduation from university.
From 65438 to 0930, he went to Germany to study, during which he was influenced by the German poet Rilke. Five years later, he received his doctor's degree and returned to Kunming, which was peaceful in wartime, to teach at the National Southwest Associated University as a foreign language professor. 194 1 year, he wrote a group of poems, which were later included as sonnets, which had a great influence.
Feng Zhi's novels and essays are also excellent. The representative novels include Cicada and Late Autumn in the 1920s, Zhong Ni's Funeral and works in the 1940s. Prose has a collection of mountains and rivers compiled by 1943.