Chapter 109 Goguin's "Noah Noah"

Goguin's "Noah Noah" Paul Goguin is one of my favorite painters, and the "Noah Noah" written by him is also one of my favorite painters. One of my favorite books. Few painters can write articles, and there are even fewer who can draw well and write well. Ge Geng is like this One of those rare talents.His articles may not be as good as his paintings, but from "Noah Noah" and legacy From the letters, notes, and diaries that have come down, his words are as full of candid interest as his paintings. Although some places are very ancestral, but everywhere there is a charming brilliance and fun.

"Noah Noah" was written by Ge Geng when he first went to live in Tahiti in the South Pacific. A travelogue.He set out from Paris in April 1891 and lived until August 1893. Moon returned to Paris. Noah Noah is the product of this journey. "Noa Noa" (NoaNoa) is the native language of Tahiti, which means "fragrant fragrance".Depend on When Yu Gegeng was in Tahiti, he wrote down these notes and sent them to his friend Cha in Paris. Morris, after sorting out and revising, in the name of his own co-author with Ge Geng, first published in Published in journals, and then printed as a booklet.This matter made Ge Geng very dissatisfied, so he will stay with himself.

Another manuscript in hand, rewritten and expanded, and I added illustrations by myself, and published another monograph running book.So there are several different versions of Gogeng's "Noah Noah". The best version is not a typesetting copy, but a photocopy based on Gegeng's original manuscript.because of him One side writes, one side adds illustrations casually, the picture and the text are combined into one, much like the British poet and painter Blake It's the same as those poetry and painting collections that are self-painted and self-printed.And some of these illustrations are monochrome, and some are more colorful.

There is a version that is completely copied from the original manuscript, which is the most valuable. Ge Geng was originally an amateur painter, and his official career was a stockbroker.Stock market in Paris On, is a very active broker, the income is very good.But his life in Paris, the culture of Europeans Ming life, suddenly feel bored, decided to find a paradise to escape, not only to give up his He lived in Paris, and was about to give up his life as a stockbroker to officially become a painter.This is what he left The reason why Paris came to Tahiti.This Parisian stockbroker, by this time already a wife

The middle-aged man of the children is already forty-three years old.But he left all this and left Paris alone. Gegeng went to Tahiti this time, lived there for three years, and then returned to Paris. "Noah Noah" It's a travel diary this time.He went to Tahiti with the purpose of finding a paradise Looking at the island, although some places still maintain their natural and primitive beauty, the ugly culture of Europeans Ming had already invaded the island, which made Ge Geng very disappointed. It turned out that Tahiti at this time was already a French colony.So Ge Geng saw the situation on the island,

Angrily, he wrote to his friends in Paris, saying that this is still Europe, the Europe he wants to get rid of. Add to that megalomaniac colonialism, and a disrespect for European sin, fashion, and ludicrousness Different kind of imitation. "Why, I have come so far, and what I got here is what I was trying to escape?" The reason why Goguin lived in Tahiti for three years and returned to Paris was not because of Totally disillusioned, but to see that in other isles where the footsteps and influence of the white man had not yet reached, the Full of the paradise on earth he longed for.So he returned to France to take care of the household, and in 1895

Returned to Tahiti last year.This time he came back with a big determination: he wanted to live among the natives, Also never return to Europe. Regarding the latter point, Ge Geng can be said to have completely achieved it.Because he lived on the island for eight years, until On May 8, 1903, on a small island in the Malcasas Islands, the poison in my body broke out, Die in poverty, sickness and loneliness. Ge Geng himself is a Caucasian, but he hates the Caucasians who dominate these islands.for The local natives have great affection.In a letter to a friend, he said: "These people are called savages...they like to sing, but never steal

The door of my house is never shut; they never kill..." In Noah Noah, he eulogizes his impressions of his first arrival in Tahiti: "Silence! I'm learning to appreciate the silence of a Tahitian night. In this In such silence, I could hear nothing but the beating of my own heart. " In a letter home, he also mentioned such silence: "The silence of night in Tahiti is a stranger thing than anything. It Silent enough that you can feel it.Not even the cry of a night bird can break it. " The length of "Noah Noah" is not much, but the content is very complex, some of which are lyrical prose, some

Part of it is a record of daily life, and part of it is the legends and myths of the island collected by him.in Gogeng before and after.There are also many people who have written books with Tahiti as the theme, but his "Noah Noah is still a favorite. I don't know if Ge Geng's little book has been translated into Chinese in our country.Many years ago I was in a magazine I saw a preview in the journal, but I don't know if it was actually published later.