1. Reflecting the Franco-Prussian War: In such works, Mo Bosang exposed the brutality and barbarity of the Prussian invaders; The incompetence of the French army praised the French people's patriotic spirit of resisting invaders without fear of violence, such as boule de suif (1880), Father Miron (1883) (required reading) and two friends (1883). Boule de suif is a story about a dozen residents fleeing in a carriage occupied by the enemy in Lyon. Carriage is the epitome of a society. The author shows the passengers' different social identities and personality characteristics through different escape reasons and performances along the way, especially their different attitudes towards Suicide Ball.
2. Describe the bourgeois life in the street and expose the bourgeois moral depravity, such as Necklace (1884), Daijialou (188 1) and My Uncle Fishing Music (1883), which shows the greed of the world.
3. Reflect the poverty, pain and excellent quality of working people's lives, such as Simon's father (188 1) and the story of a long-term female worker (188 1).
Characteristics of Mo Bosang's short stories.
Realism and naturalism are the primary goals of Mo Bosang's short story creation. The highest state of art is no art, which is also an important symbol of his realistic novel art. Compared with Balzac, Stendhal and Merimee in the early 9th century, Mo Bosang's short stories got rid of any degree of romanticism and abandoned all the techniques of legendary novels.
1. In terms of material selection, Mo Bosang is not interested in special and peculiar events. His short stories are all based on stories or pictures of daily life, describing the human world in daily life. Plain and accurate, just like real life, there is no artificial arrangement and imaginary drama, nor does it win with a thrilling beginning or a stunning ending, but it attracts people with a real and natural narrative art and description art. Because the author observes carefully and is good at digging, it deeply reflects the reality of life and the essence of society. Although the length is short, it is extremely profound, trivial and meaningful. Give people the artistic enjoyment of seeing the big from the small.
The plot is not complicated, but the layout is very subtle and unique.
A. In some works, Mo Bosang doesn't even use plots as the support and circulation of short stories. He always skillfully links some credible little things with very slim, hidden and almost invisible clues, wisely and without trace uses the most appropriate structural combination, highlights the main role and leads to the ending. For example, family, the daily life of a civil servant family from the first night to the second night is not a story, but a reality. Desalination of plot and naturalization of life picture are a feature of modern novels.
B. Some use the contradictory "hierarchy method", and the whole novel is ups and downs, or it causes great suspense at the beginning, and then unexpectedly takes a sharp turn. Colorful and interesting.
3. In the form of expression, Mo Bosang is a master of perfection. He does not stick to certain established rules, but freely uses various methods and techniques. When describing an object, it is sometimes a complete story, sometimes a fragment of an event, sometimes a picture, and sometimes a psychological activity and mental state. There is a strong story, a diluted plot or even no plot at all. There are many characters, but also a single character, or even no characters at all. In the chronological order of description, there are direct narration, flashback, interlude and the intersection of past and present time. From the perspective of description, there are objective description and subjective description. The narrator is sometimes identified and sometimes unknown. The diversification and variety of description methods have improved the level of narrative art and greatly enriched the description methods of short stories.
4. Using natural and simple sketching techniques, writing landscapes can grasp the essence of God and be meticulous and accurate.
5. The characters are naturalized and the heroes are vulgarized. Through the natural state of characters in daily life and the most reasonable actions, behaviors, reactions and expressions that must exist in specific situations, their inner psychology and personality are revealed. Don't shy away from the absurdity and shortcomings of heroes. The character's character is naturally revealed through the development of the plot, and there are few traces of knives and axes.
6. The language is standard, beautiful, clear, concise, accurate and vivid.
Mo Bosang's works
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Most of Mo Bosang's works were written between 1880 and 1890, and * * * published 27 short stories and 6 novels in Central China. The main representative works are Une vie, Good Friends (also translated as bel ami) and Life (1883), which describe the tragic life of disillusioned aristocratic girls. The tragedy of Jonah reflects that under the impact of capitalist economy and bourgeois morality, the lifestyle of land nobles will inevitably collapse and disintegrate. Belami (1885) described the process of the adventurer Duroa using women to get ahead, reflecting the darkness and corruption of the political life of the Third Republic of France, the lewdness of the bourgeoisie, and especially the filth of the press.