French writer Valles (1832- 1885) is the third autobiographical novel Jacques Ventras (the first and second parts are children and middle school graduates respectively), and Jacques Ventras is the epitome of the author. The Rebellion focuses on Jacques Vantra's revolutionary activities from 186 1 to18710. For example, the argument with reactionary newspapers, the conflict with the bourgeois society of the Second Empire, his arrest in San Pelag prison and so on. In particular, he described his participation in the Paris commune uprising and a bloody week of fighting, as well as his memories of the painful years in the past. The title page of the book says, to the victims of 187 1, to all the victims of social injustice, and to all the founders who took up arms under the banner of the commune, resisted the corrupt society and established a grand alliance for all the suffering people. This is the theme of this book: the review of suffering, the record of hot blood, and continuing to raise the torch of unity and fighting.
This work is not only about a person's life history, but also about a history of social changes. How did an unruly middle school graduate become a tenacious fighter of the Paris Commune during the Empire? Before the commune uprising, everything was unstable and negative. Angry young people left a terrible childhood with nothing but nothingness. Now he personally saw and experienced the birth of the commune, and also had his own day. What will happen tomorrow? Although unpredictable, as an insurgent, his life ultimately far exceeded death, which responded to the sacred demand of persisting in the revolutionary struggle. This is the author's wish. The author records his past in the form of literature, and his intention is just as the author of Recovering Time wants to express: literature can transcend the time limit and the past can be recovered again. In "The Rebel Army", only one-third of the space is devoted to the birth and failure of the commune, and what happened before the uprising accounts for almost half of the novel, which is also the reason.
Barres wrote his own life and battles with his rebellious spirit and revolution, and he even experienced them personally, thus showing a vivid and real picture in front of readers, which has a strong appeal. The author is especially good at linking the present situation with the past, often telling a great truth in one or two ordinary sentences, and expressing philosophical propositions poetically in literary language, which is particularly thought-provoking.