Chapter 33 "Oberman"

"Oberman" Everyone knows Goethe's "The Sorrows of Young Werther", but few people know "Obermann" (Obermann) book, its author Etienne Pivert de Senancour was overwhelmed by the splendor of his contemporary French writers of the early nineteenth century Already, almost no one mentions it. What young Werther represents is hopeless enthusiasm, and what Obermann represents is aimless suffering. Boredom, just like his contemporary writer Shadobu Yiang's novel "Hai Nai", is suffering from the century. Sick youth, no religion, no belief, negating everything old, but he doesn't know

What exactly is new. The British critic Arnold praised this book very much, and the contemporary French critic Saint-Péfé also praised the book. People complained about the book's indifference, encouraged the author to reprint this novel, and returned it to him. wrote a preface.Chelonkel himself once said that "Obermann" cannot be regarded as a novel, but the novel's The genre was, as was the fashion at the time, a first-person epistolary.The letter covers the time approx. There are ten years, nearly a hundred letters.Oberman, a twenty-one-year-old youth, left France for domestic work.

The country went to Switzerland, and soon returned to Paris because of industrial disputes.Later lived in seclusion in Fontainebleau, often Between France and Switzerland.I once met an old lover by chance and touched the old love; but this lover's karma married.Finally met her again, her husband was dead, but she still couldn't marry him, Oberman was finally alone Live alone in Geneva. The plot of the book is roughly like this.The recipient of the letter is probably a friend. What kind of person is this person? Obermann never mentioned it.Chelon Kerr said that the book was not like a novel, but it was true.because it is both

There is no plot, no vertices, and no layout.It just trivially writes the scenery of Switzerland, French countryside.The protagonist's mood is good and bad, when it is good, it is very optimistic, and when it is bad, it is everywhere No.He felt that everything was empty, but he didn't know what he lacked. Haubermann was published in 1804, shortly after the French Revolution, and its protagonist It represents the hesitation and uncertainty of the young people at that time, so although it has not been noticed by the world, it has been caught Lived the pulse of the times. Xie Longkeer was born in 1770, wrote few works, and his early life was similar to "Oberman",

Although the author denies it, the book has a strong autobiographical element.