Chapter 60: Charpard, Flower of Evil, Hugo

When Wang Feng forcibly transferred a group of powerful people to the crystal building, powerful attacks continued to appear in the crystal building, and this group of powerful people who were transferred by Wang Feng killed and injured many people at once.

However, Wang Feng only transferred the good ones to the world realm of his own floating pot space, and the powerful bad ones were naturally transferred to the crystal building, and the good or bad was determined by Wang Feng himself.

In the midst of wave after wave of powerful attacks, another Demon Guardian flashed out from within the crystal building. This is exactly that

One of the Guardians of the Devil, Charle Baudelaire

Charles Pierre Baudelaire (1821-1867), a great French poet, the pioneer of symbolic poetry, and the founder of modernism.

His representative works include the poetry collection Lesfleursdumal and the prose poetry collection Le Spleen de Paris.

In 1836, at the age of 15, Charles and Baudelaire began to show their talents in poetry and other things, but his poems were not recognized by his mentors, and were evaluated for showing some depraved qualities in them that did not belong to his age.

In 1837, he won the second prize in Latin poetry in the examination for high school honors.

In 1838, he traveled to the Pyrenees and wrote his first idyllic poems.

In 1840, at the age of 19, Charles and Baudelaire lived freely in the Latin Quarter, where they made friends in the literary world. Contributed to a newspaper. The following year, for his debauchery of his life, he was sent to a ship bound for India, hoping that the arduous voyage would transform Bauderew.

In 1842, Charles and Baudelaire returned to Paris on another ship in the middle of their voyage, and this journey to the East gave rise to countless fantasies for Charles and Baudelaire, which became the source of some of their later works

Inherited his father's legacy and began to live a luxurious life as he pleased. All the delicacies, the beautiful women in fine clothes, and the opium drugs paint a strange pale color in the poems of Charles and Baudelaire.

In 1843, Charles and Baudelaire began writing poems that would later be included in The Flowers of Evil. Because of his unbridled profligacy, his family appointed a guardian to manage his property in 1844, giving him 200 francs a month.

1944 year. Charles and Baudelaire attempted suicide. Year 1846. Charles and Baudelaire produced a large number of works, including poems, novels, essays, and translations, most of which were first collected and published in 1857 as The Flowers of Evil.

At this time, Charles and Baudelaire's creations were still unstable, and too many visions flashed in his mind. Like droplets of water rolling around, they have not yet gathered into a stream.

1848-1851. Charles and Baudelaire devoted great enthusiasm to revolutions and uprisings. It is not difficult to see from the available records that it is very politically immature.

(It was not his poetry that first made Charles and Baudelaire famous in Paris, but his literary criticism: The Salon of 1845-1846.) "Sharon (party). The transliteration of salon refers to a place of meeting and chatting". )

In 1848, when the revolution of workers, students and burghers in Paris overthrew the July Dynasty, Charles and Baudelaire were very active and founded a revolutionary journal with their friends, but this publication lasted only two days.

Charles and Baudelaire were involved in the street battles of the uprising. During his lifetime, the writers who had the greatest influence on him were Edgar Allan and Poe, who continued to translate the works of Edgar Allan and Poe for 17 years from 1848 until his death.

Soon after the publication of The Flower of Evil, it was brought to court in the Second French Empire on charges of obstructing public morals and decency because of its bold material, shocking content, and disrespect for religion.

Convicted of "indecency", the court fined Charles and Baudelaire 300 francs and ordered the removal of six major poems from the collection. At that time, the views of the French literary circle on this incident were divided into two, and only a small number of people sided with Charles and Baudelaire.

The writers Victor and Hugo (representatives of French romantic writers) wrote to Charles and Baudelaire to praise "The Flower of Evil" and praised it as a "shining star", bringing "new tremors" to the French poetry scene.

In 1861, "The Flower of Evil" was republished, adding 35 new poems in addition to those six poems. In December of the same year, Charles and Baudelaire were nominated as candidates for the Academician of France. He refused the following year.

In 1866, while visiting churches in Belgium, he suddenly developed aphasia and hemiplegia, and after returning to Paris, he was admitted to Dr. Duval's sanatorium, where he died the following year at the age of 46.

The ultimate goal of art is to create beauty, but the definition of beauty varies greatly, Charles and Baudelaire believe that beauty should not be constrained, good is not equal to beauty, and beauty also exists in evil and ugliness.

Two centuries ago, when Charles and Baudelaire revealed their beauty to the world, critics horrified him as the "devil poet." ”

At that time, it was at the end of Romanticism, some recognized themes were already tired in creation, most poets held their ground in that crowded land, few bold innovators appeared, and Charles and Baudelaire, who insisted on cultivating the "flower of evil" outside the crowd, were the revolutionaries of that era.

Four years after his death, Rimbaud (a famous 19th-century French poet) wrote to him as "the king of poets, the true God".

In 1895, Mallarmé published a sonnet in honor of Charles and Baudelaire. In an essay published in 1922, Proust called him, along with Alfred de Vigny, the greatest poet of the 19th century.

Les Fleursdumal, also translated as The Flower of Evil, 1857, was based on decadence and sexuality, and had a significant influence on the development of objectivist and modernist literature.

At the beginning, there were 101 songs, which were divided into 5 parts except for the first song (to readers):

1 (Depression and Ideals) 2 (Flower of Evil/Flower of Evil) 3 (Rebellion) 4 (Wine) 5 (Death)

Aesthetically, The Flower of Evil emphasizes the interaction of sensations (the interaction between different sensory information), opposes the traditional poetic aesthetics, and advocates ugliness as beauty and beauty corresponds to ugliness.

The materials include love, carnal desire, drugs, alcohol, crime, death, etc. The mood is melancholy, with precise rhymes and syllables. The rhythm is musical, and several of the poems were later composed by the French composer Debussy.

The objectivist poets Mallarmé, Paul, Verlaine, Rimbaud, and later Li Jinfa in China had a profound influence.

Note: Victor and Hugo's "Les Miserables" (also translated in Chinese as "Lone Star Tears", originally meaning "miserable people", "poor people"), a novel published in 1862, is one of the most famous novels of the 19th century.

The novel depicts the life of several French characters in the early 20 years of the 19th century, covering political phenomena such as the Napoleon War and the revolt of the Republicans in Paris in 1832.

The main line of the story revolves around the protagonist's journey of trying to atone for his crimes when the released criminal Shang Wanqiang tries to atone for his crimes. The novel attempts to examine the impact of his atonement in the social context of the time.

This grand novel blends the history of France, as well as Parisian architecture, politics, moral philosophy, law, justice, and religious beliefs, and examines the nature of good, evil, and law, as well as the types and nature of love and affection.

Inspired by a real criminal and a police officer, he divided the personality of this real character into two characters in the story. The world of Les Misérables is known to the world through its countless stage and screen adaptations. The most famous adaptation is the musical of the same name. (To be continued......)