Chapter 66 Hugo and Les Miserables

Hugo and People who love literature and art and movies, I think if he has never read or watched (Also translated as "Lone Star Tears"), he must have read or watched "The Hunchback in the Bell Tower".if neither Zeng, he would at least know the names of these two masterpieces.Because these are all Hugo's masterpieces, not only one It was put on the screen for the first time and turned into a movie. Victor Hugo was a master of romantic literature in France in the nineteenth century.poet, dramatist, Sometimes he is a novelist.We translated Hugo's works very early, but we didn't translate his name into rain in the past.

Fruit, but translated into hustle and bustle. When Lin Qinnan cooperated with others in translating foreign novels, he translated Hugo's famous works. However, the title of the book at that time was not "History of Sorrow" but "History of Sorrow".It's "The Hunchback in the Bell Tower" also translated.Hugo's two novels are very long, and Lin's translations are all excerpts.But anyway, I We are not unfamiliar with Hugo's works. Hugo was born in 1802, which was the time when Napoleon was invincible, and it was also the time when France was troubled.

era.Although Hugo's achievements in literature are known to the world through novels, his character can be said to be poetic. Human character, passionate, impulsive, full of sense of justice, full of compassion, and attaches great importance to love. He can die for truth and sacrifice for love, so he has a typical poetic temperament, and at the same time Also a typical Romantic writer. Hugo was born in a military family, and his father was a soldier under Napoleon.Although he was born in this In the family environment, but there is a literary genius at an early age.At the age of thirteen, he started translating in school

The idyll of Virgil, a classical Latin poet, ended up beating the teacher.It's not that I blame him for not translating well, But the teacher himself, who happened to translate the poem, blamed the boy for daring to compete with him.Hugo had to Go home with tears in your eyes.But he is not discouraged.He took part in the school's poetry competition without telling the teacher, and he did not take part in it. Those who take the trouble will get the first choice.At the age of seventeen, he was already an acclaimed young man of letters. His masterpiece "The Hunchback in the Bell Tower" was written in 1830, when Hugo was already twenty-eight years old.he

I started to write in September of this year, and wrote diligently throughout the autumn and winter, and in January of the following year, this The major work has already been unscripted. The original title of "The Hunchback of Notre Dame" should have been: "The Hunchback of Notre Dame".This is the one in Paris, France With the famous Notre Dame as the background, it describes the story of a hunchback who is the bell secretary of the church.The hunchback was He is regarded as trash, ridiculed as an idiot, and referred to as a monster.But in his heart there is not only good and evil, but also justice.

Sensation, and love.Therefore, the Chinese translation of his name as "Camel Man" can be said to be very appropriate.Hugo's novel, It is written with big scenes, twists and turns, tense plot, laughter and tears, anger and humor, it is a typical romantic drama. Romantic literature. "The Hunchback in the Clock Tower" is exactly the case.So a total of several films were made, each time All can attract the audience. The length of the novel is longer than "The Hunchback in the Clock Tower", and the scenes are also greater.This can be said to be text One of the great works in the history of science, no less than Tolstoy's.Hugo only

With this novel, it has gained an immortal reputation in the history of French literature. Published in 1862, when Hugo was sixty years old, it can be said that he Bai Lian's meticulous work has been translated into nine languages ​​before it is published, and it has been published in Paris and London at the same time. Published in London, Brussels, New York, Madrid, Berlin, St. Petersburg, Tulun, etc. A major event in the world literary world at that time.According to Hugo's biography, the first published in Paris One day, at six o'clock in the morning, readers surrounded the door of the bookstore, waiting for the door to open and buy first.It is said that only

In just a few hours, 50,000 copies were sold. It is divided into five volumes, with John Valjohn's life as the center of the story.he this A good farmer who stole a loaf of bread to feed his sister's starving children ended up being charged with theft Sentenced to five years in prison.Because he wanted to escape from prison, his sentence was increased to 19 years.This is "Les Miserables" The beginning of "Boundary".After being released after serving his sentence, Val Johann experienced hardships and could not make a living. Fortunately, a bishop accepted him.

Allow him.But in his heart, he has suffered all the grievances of the world, and he is a little angry and abnormal.The Bishop treated him so well, But before he left, he stole the silver from the bishop's house and fled.He was caught by the police on the way and brought to the bishop's house To confess the stolen goods, the kind-hearted bishop actually said that he gave the silverware to Valjovan himself, and asked the police to release it. let him go.This really moved Val Ruowang.He thinks that although he has been abused by the world, But there is still a truly good man in the world, and he himself still has the opportunity to be good.So he decided to do it again

Man, repay the good bishop. It is to narrate the many eloquent and tearful things that Val John did under this thought Touching things.The novel is set in Paris, and Hugo described the life of the poor in Paris. The lives of residents, vagabonds, and desperadoes describe the Battle of Waterloo and the scenes of revolutionary riots. In front of it, the pure love scenes of boys and girls are colorful and dizzying.Tension is impenetrable I was overwhelmed, but I couldn't bear to release the paper. Determined to help the aftermath, Val Ruowang went smoothly in society and became a wealthy industrialist.

Elected as mayor, just like an important person.But there was a police spy who knew about him, Threatened him from time to time, and even wanted to arrest him and put him in jail, which produced many tense and moving scenes.in There is a description of Val Johann escaping from police detectives in a large ditch underground in Paris in order to save an orphan girl The course of the hunt is one that people will never forget after reading it.Later Val Johann kind of fell in love with this The orphan girl he raised with his own hands, but when he knew that another promising young man was also in love with her, he sacrificed Himself, fulfilled the marriage of this pair of young people. It is an immortal masterpiece. Hugo lived a very long life, lived to be eighty-three years old, and did not die until 1885.on my eightieth birthday, The whole European literary world held a grand celebration for him.But when he was dying, he asked in his last words to share his estate Give to the poor of Paris, and don't have a grand funeral, but a plain hearse to the cemetery. All his life, Hugo sympathized with those characters living in the "Les Miserables" in Paris.