Chapter 2 Translator's Preface

The author of this book, Dan Frank, is a contemporary French writer. He has published "The First Day in Greece", "Farewell", "The Cemetery of the Madman", "Lying Naked", "Baro on the Front Line", and his friends Jean Vaughn. Fifteen or sixteen works including the series of books co-authored by Tran "The Adventures of Boluo-Photography Report".His novel "Break Up" has been translated into many languages, published in 28 countries, and won the Leprix Renaudot Literature Prize in 1991.Renaudot was a 17th-century French doctor and journalist who spent his life advocating for the poor.He founded France's first weekly newspaper, La Gazette, in 1631. In 1635 he became the head of the French literary magazine Le Courier de France. In 1925, a French literary critic group created the Renaudeau Literary Prize, which has been awarded every autumn since 1926.

The first book is written by the author after years of painstakingly reading a large amount of archives and collecting rich materials, and then spending several years.As he said in the preface: "I spent several years writing two books at the same time. When I felt tired, I put it aside temporarily and wrote another one. Therefore, I have not been able to completely distinguish them, nor can I Separate them completely. They are a pair of twins, the only difference is that one is a novel and the other is an anecdote. If I didn't write it, it would be impossible to write "Naked Lying"; without "Naked Lying", there would be Impossible. These artists from all over the world have created modern art based on their different social and cultural backgrounds. I have been paying attention to collecting relevant materials for many years. There are so many materials at hand and their stories are rich and colorful. It is impossible to fit in one book, nor can I dedicate them all to the readers. They are some tenacious and wonderful companions. In the process of gathering information, the more I know them, the more excited I am. "

With detailed information and flexible descriptions, this book vividly presents the era when "Paris was the art center of the world" before readers' eyes.By reading this book, you can learn more about Picasso, Hemingway, Apollinaire, Aragon, Modigliani, Matisse, Jarry, Max Jacob, Parsons, Mayakovsky and Jiaji All aspects of the lives of a large number of world-renowned artists, writers, and poets including Lev. Artists are different from ordinary people in that they have artistic inspiration, and sporadic sparks in daily life may inspire their infinite motivation and aura of creation.Creation is the first need in their lives. Whether they are rich or poor, their will to create is unwavering and unswerving.These poets, painters, novelists, sculptors and musicians dare to break the long-established rules and regulations, jump out of the original rules and regulations, and dare to imagine and innovate boldly.It is precisely because of their excellent character that they can create the era language of world art in the early 20th century: Fauvism, one of the modern French schools. , Cubism is a modern art school in the French painting circle, and the representative painters include Picasso and Braque. 1. Dadaism Western literary school, "Dada" was originally "horse" in the French language for children, and it was taken as the name of the literary school, meaning "meaningless" and "indifferent".and surrealist Western literary genres.During the First World War, Dadaism first appeared in Switzerland, and then evolved into Surrealism in France. 1. Anarchism, a petty bourgeois trend of thought that negates all state power, appeared in Europe in the first half of the 19th century. .

However, artists are not saints, they are also mortals with flesh and blood, emotions and desires, and they especially advocate freedom: freedom of creation, freedom of thought and freedom of life.So along with their artistic creation career of reciting poems and painting, some bohemian lifestyles like ruffians appeared: wearing ties made of paper or bark, putting shorts on the upper body as shirts, wandering around the streets wearing them; Change some tattered slippers; often get drunk, shoot at random on the streets of Montmartre and Montparnasse in Paris, fight and pick quarrels in restaurants and bars; there are groups of women around you, and you can't change them...

The personalities and personalities of artists are also varied and diverse.Some live in poverty, live frugally, but do their best to help others; Ballrooms, from the dance floor to the suburbs, and even temporarily decided to drive to the seashore, spending the whole day without a plan; some like to be alone and never get in touch with others; some are loyal to love;There are often intrigues, power struggles, jealousy, hatred and helplessness among them... The book also very prominently and strongly reflects that in France and even in Western countries such as Europe and the United States from the end of the 19th century to the beginning of the 20th century, the status of women was still very humble. , The status of being discriminated against and humiliated will always be a supporting role in society, a tool for people to use, and an accessory of men.

It is a vivid and colorful star map.Because its materials all come from historical data, rather than fiction and fabrication of novels, it is very important for us to understand the formation and development of modern art, the ideas of artists who created modern art, their creation and life, and their understanding. It must have been a great time to live in. Wang Yuhua February 5, 2001