Comments on Miss Moban's Works

The preface of Miss Moban discusses the virtue and anti-virtue of literature at the beginning, pointing out that virtue is valuable and should be observed, but it may not become an insurmountable thunder pool. Besides, all his contemporaries were hypocritical, but they didn't mean it. Think and write one set every day. In literary criticism, a group of cowards have no original ideas, just like a hermit priest courting a layman's wife, but the other party can't cure him. Furthermore, the author expounds his own aesthetic point of view: "What is utility and where is the word used?" ? Stealing refers to two kinds of utilitarianism, and its meaning is always relative. What is useful to one person is not necessarily beneficial to another. You are a shoemaker and I am a poet. For me, seeking truth lies in the rhyme of two poems, so the rhyme book is of great use to me. You don't need rhyming books to mend an old pair of boots at all. For me, writing carols doesn't require a scalpel at all. You will refute this, saying that the shoemaker is above the poet and the public can leave the latter. Bucai has no intention of belittling the excellent shoe repair industry, and is willing to compare with the constitutional monarchy and respect it. However, I admit that I would rather wear out my shoes than make my poem not Ye Yun. I would rather use poetry instead of my boots. We almost live in seclusion. Walking with your head is more dexterous than using your feet, so you seldom use shoes. Unlike those virtuous people, in order to get a position, you have to run around between government departments in boots. Ben knew that some people would rather go to the mill than go to church. They think that bread can fill the stomach and is more practical than spiritual food. I have nothing to say to these people. They are worthy of being economists. They are as rampant in the world we live in today as in the afterlife ... People say that 25 sous can live every day. However, trying not to die does not mean living. It is almost impossible to see that a city-state built from a practical point of view will be more livable than Father Rushz's cemetery. Nothing beautiful is indispensable in life. Cancel flowers, the world will not suffer any material losses, but who doesn't want more flowers? I would rather give up potatoes than roses. I believe that only utilitarians in the world will pull out tulip beds and plant Chinese cabbage instead. "

Gautier's popular confession shows that he abandons pure materialism, disapproves of utilitarian conspiracy to rule human life, and looks forward to poetic dwelling. When it comes to social progress, he quoted Fourier's "Franco" prediction that if Mont martel volcano erupts one day and buries Paris, then only art will be left to trace its past glory. He is convinced that literary theory should be able to look forward to the future, and the most beautiful books are works that have not yet appeared. He is dissatisfied with his present situation, lamenting that romance has degenerated into lewdness and the theater has become a hurdle. In a word, he felt it necessary to put up a warning sign in front of the art museum: "It is forbidden to pile up garbage here!" "At the end of the preface, Gautier prayed that her story about the female singer Madeleine de Moban would not be abandoned like the beauty Blardat Mount in the novel Violent Roland, but would have many readers in Europe and other parts of the world.

Gautier pondered the idea of "art for art's sake" according to the viewpoint in the preface of the novel Miss Moban, and became one of the most influential French art critics in the second half of the19th century. The National Museum of gustave moreau held an exhibition entitled "The Course of Theophil Gautier" and published a collection of Goethe's critical paintings "Strange, Extraordinary and Weird", which showed Goethe's aesthetic practice. From this exhibition, Gautier discovered gustave moreau's talent at the Paris Painting Salon 1852, and praised his work Oedipus as "Hamlet of Greece". Then, he drew close-up comments on Moro's Medea and Jason, Jupiter and Europa, Prometheus and Oedipus and The Sphinx, and compared Moro to Mania, a great Italian painter in the15th century, thinking that he inherited Delacroix's painting style and eventually became the representative of French symbolism painting school. Obviously, Gautier took a fancy to Moreau precisely because the latter's painting career reflected his idea of "art for art's sake".

In fact, Gautier's daughter Judy grew up to be a talented woman in the French art palace under the influence of her father's aesthetic view of "art for art's sake". She has a very close relationship with Hugo, Balzac, Nava, Baudelaire, Flaubert, Dumas, Dumas and Gonggur brothers, especially won the warm admiration of musician Wagner, and was elected as an academician of Gonggur College of Literature. The talented woman of Paris Salon not only wrote the novel "Emperor Dragon" and co-wrote the script with pierre loti, but also made outstanding contributions to French literature by introducing the oriental culture of China and Japan to the French literary world. She translated China's classical poems into French and published The Jade Book, which was widely praised by French literary circles for its elegant translation. Judy was arranged by her father to concentrate on learning Chinese with Ding Dunling, a scholar from China. Shi Ding took part in the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom Movement and went into exile in Paris after the fall of Nanking. The host who hired him to compile a dictionary in France died suddenly. He didn't land at the railway station. At this moment, he happened to meet Gautier. The great French poet took him home and taught his little daughter Judy Chinese for many years. Ding Dunling died and was buried in Gautier's house. Now, dating back to this anecdote, it is an anecdote of civil friendship between China and France.