Chapter 27 Zola's technique

Zola's technique There is a legend that Zola wanted to describe the scene of a pedestrian being run over by a carriage on the road. For the sake of experience, this master of naturalism once tried it himself. Second-rate.This legend may have been exaggerated, but we read his grand description of his own work. After reading Ganghe's notes, I knew that his efforts in this area were indeed astonishing. Josephson, the author of "Zola and His Time", once used Zola's famous book "The Little Hotel" Original manuscripts to be studied.This original manuscript is now in the National Library of Paris. It is divided into two volumes, the first volume is

The last draft of "Little Hotel", the second volume is the plan of this novel and the materials collected at the beginning There are 239 pages in total, and roughly include the following items: (1) An outline of the entire plan (pages one to three). (2) Detailed plan (four to nine twelve pages). (3) Notes on Alcohol and Alcoholism (pp. 13-99). (4) off In streets, hotels, dance halls, etc. (plans and notes, pp. 99-116). (Five people Things (pp. 117-138). (6) Materials extracted from reference books (140 to 155 pages). (7) Fragments (pages 156 to 174). (8) About laundry, Notes of a washerwoman, cooper, coppersmith, etc. (pp. 175-190). (9) Fragmentary wood

Materials—Newspaper Clippings—Slang (pp. 191-239). "Little Hotel" is one of the tributaries of Zola's big book "Rougon Margaret", which he described The first novel of the life of a French worker.From the above plan, it can be seen that he has worked hard for this novel What effort has been expended.But not only this one novel, Zola for all works Before starting to write, I have to go through this kind of work. When he writes a novel, he must first determine the character, family background and inheritance of his characters, and then dabble in a whole All works related to this aspect, record the knowledge and experience encountered at any time related to this, one by one

kind.Secondly, regardless of the reference materials obtained, I will draw up the content of the novel by myself, and think about it. The accompanying recording, from big to small, gradually touches on each character, as well as habits, appearance, relationship, etc., and summarizes this Everything is also recorded one by one.Secondly, according to the above drafting, determine the structure and Chapters, interspersed with plots, and arranged characters.The obtained data are then assigned to the proposed plot or characters, and then review it paragraph by paragraph.After all these procedures were completed, he officially started

write his novel.At this time, he is not actually "writing", but "editing" the material.Every Four pages a day, rarely changed, set aside after writing, and didn't look at it until it was printed. Zola's creative method, just like the editor of the current film script, first has the story and then the story. Then divide the scene, and then divide the shots. When the filming officially starts, just follow the instructions of the script to shoot one by one. That's it. At first glance, this method is too unsightly and does not seem like "art"; but in this way

The artistic achievement of the resulting film is already undeniable, so it can be seen that in dominating material, cutting At the time of cutting, there are already artistic skills in it, and it is by no means a real "Wen Chaogong".