面对着白色恐怖,保皇党人该如何生活?
It is a wistful and elegiac novel which has reproduced the situation during the period of the French Revolution. Religion and honor are the symbols of feudal aristocracy. Balzac shows sympathy for aristocrats and hatred to the money-mad capitalist class. In the captivating opening scene, an elderly woman trudges through the snowy, deserted streets of a run-down neighborhood in Paris, tailed by an unknown pursuer. The suspense is palpable. Despite its brevity, it possesses a great depth of emotional power. Balzac expertly captures the paranoia that reigned during this dark period in France's history, the undying faith of those suffering religious persecution, and the guilt and regret felt by many who saw the new regime as proof that France's glory days had passed, never to return. An Episode Under the Terror is a very moving and memorable piece of writing.
小说描绘了法国大革命时期共和派统治下,面对着白色恐怖的保皇党人的生活。主人公包括一位宣誓效忠国民议会的神父和两位修女。故事着重描写了他们的焦虑和危险,反映了共和派统治期内保皇派的艰苦生活。此外,故事本身也是在纪念大革命时期的一位著名的刽子手。他因为参与处决了国王,而总是充满负罪感。因此,他倾尽全力帮助三位处境堪忧的神职人员,并在最后献出自己的生命来赎罪……
Originally published in 1830, An Episode Under the Terror is one of the earliest pieces in Honoré de Balzac's Comédie Humaine, a large series of works in which he explores the many facets of French society. "The Terror" in the title refers to the period immediately following the French Revolution of 1793, when thousands of people lost their heads under the guillotine. The nobility were stripped of their titles and wealth, and many were executed as enemies of the state. Because of their religious faith and their support of the former monarchy, the clergy were also persecuted by the new Republican government in its attempt to establish a radically secular state. This story revolves around members of the clergy who refused to take an oath of allegiance to the new government, and therefore were forced into hiding as fugitives.
巴尔扎克作品里的人物性格都极为鲜明突出。他通过对生活环境的描写来塑造人物性格,因为他深信人是环境的产物。他一直坚持这一现实主义基本原则。
通过《人间喜剧》,巴尔扎克“提供了一部法国‘社会’特别是巴黎‘上流社会’的卓越的现实主义历史。”他的作品“是对上流社会必然崩溃的一曲无尽的挽歌”,“他看到了他心爱的贵族们灭亡的必然性”。——恩格斯
Along with Flaubert, Balzac is generally regarded as a founding-father of realism in European fiction.
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