The Complete Works of Xu Zhimo's Classical Prose

Chapter 19
He is a different person, I repeat, we cannot measure his strength, we can only be amazed at his achievements, he is not like ordinary literati, with limited imagination and limited creativity, trying this and that; For him, to try is to win. His poems, his prose, his plays, and his novels all have a unique realm, which requires independent evaluation and understanding.His writing power has Dostoyevsky's profundity and vigor, Robbe's rigor and precision, Joseph Conrad's instinct for catching words, Feld's verve, Gotti's (Theophile Gautier) A genius who carved words and sentences.He is forever flying in the hurricane of fantasy, always spinning in the raging waves of passion.He claims to be a superman; Napoleon's great ambitions are the most thorns in his imagination.He is the most romantic aviator; he uses the most precious paper, the most elegant fonts, prints his golden articles, drives his most beautiful airship, looks back at the people who worship him, and flies a farewell with a smile His hand kiss slowly sank into the sky, he scattered his soft words and strong words, enthusiasm and cold wisdom like snowflakes in the sky of Vienna full of snares; he once wanted to cross the Pacific Ocean and enjoy the Far East among the white clouds color.

He poured out his eloquence in the Congress; turned Italian politics, fought against Germany and Austria, started war and concluded a peace treaty, he was the center of Italian patriotism, he was the idol of national enthusiasm, and his home was in the water city. Venice; even the boatman of Gondola (the name of the ferry in Venice), every time he passed by his door, he raised his hat high to pay tribute, "Long live Italy! Long live Dannon Snow!" Diffuse among star-river-like islands and cobweb-like canals.All the letters between him have to be numbered and recorded, because people often steal them as souvenirs.The traces of his life are just like an absurd fairy tale.

Let's just look at Dannon Xuewu when he was in the Philippines. He was nearly sixty at that time, but his absurd actions could make a six-year-old child laugh.Every time his army won a victory, he ordered the whole city to celebrate, and he himself wore weird colorful clothes, stood on the flower tower of the tramway, and the half-mad crowd of Filipinos, shaking champagne glasses. Cup, get drunk on everything, forget everything.A bed of roses is a luxurious fantasy; but the bedroom and bed of our "Poet King" are not only strewn with roses, but they have to be replaced three times a day; It is crimson in mid-heaven, and crimson in sunset!His footsteps are gusts of wind, his eyes are lightning, his voice is like golden gongs, and his words are like waterfalls; this is not an abuse of adverbs, but the exact impression of those who have met him; the British Lewis Hind I once heard him talking at a side table in a hotel dining room in Venice. He said that no one would believe or imagine unless he heard it himself. Even if he heard it himself, such as myself, he would not believe it easily. The mouth and tongue, larynx and vocal cords will overflow with words and tones like raging tides, cataracts and thunder.

Such eccentrics can only be produced by the indulgent and extravagant Onan, and only a society that indulges eccentricity and worships very much like Italy can provide him with opportunities for free development and expression.His works are a more vivid portrayal of his abnormal personality; when we look at his works, we seem to be facing the light flames on the equator, the flames of Vesuvia, or the roaring beasts.He is a symbol of the extravagant and grotesque civilization of modern times, and he is the crystallization of genius and eccentricity of the peoples of Dande, Michelangelo, and Bojaqawu.

Professor Hanfold said:

…Whose (D'Annunzios') Personality might be called a brilliant impressionist sketch of the talents and failings of the Italian character, reproducing sense in heightened but veracious illumination, others in glaring caricature or paradoxical distortion…

Dannon Snow's Youth
The hometown of Dannong Xuewu is a village on the Adriatic Sea, a place called Abruzzi province.He was born in 61, [-] years ago.The seaside is wild and mountainous, and the residents are simple, brave, rude, and hard-working. His father was probably a farmer: according to his autobiography, his iron muscles were inherited from his father, and his strong Will and insatiable zeal are his mother's heritage, he has three sisters, none like him, he has a wet nurse, who retired in old age to the mountains, and he has a book of poems dedicated to her, against his own The life of "storm and storm", and the peace and tranquility of her life in the mountains:

Mother, grass heart in your oil lamp;
Slowly fading, the front mountain
The sound of the wind in the pine forest and the chants of insects in the back mountain,

Responding to your spinning wheel again and again
Delayed moaning, comforting your compassion
Free translation Dedication of "II Poema Paradisiaco"

In his autobiography "The Journey of the Soul", he did not describe his childhood deeds in detail.But his own so-called "deep sensuality", the most important element of his personality and his art, had already emerged in his childhood. "Sensuality" is an imprecise translation of Sensuality. This word should be interpreted in a broad sense here, not only sexual desire, but also the sensation of various organs.Because his senses are so powerful and sensitive, he can discover the most mysterious and subtle phenomena and news, realms that ordinary people's senses cannot easily comprehend.His life is just a life of the senses. The natural world is full of mysterious music. He has ears to hear subtle colors. He has eyes to detect rich fragrances and tastes. He has nose and tongue to discern the infinite subtle changes in the world. With combination, he has sharp nerves to know, distinguish, and comprehend.His vision is especially astonishingly keen in his organs; the material of his thoughts seems to be only physical images, and like Pierre Loti in France, his mouth is an imaginary metaphor.Not to mention the extraordinary intensity of his sexuality; it was the pivot of his whole personality, the source of inspiration for his artistic creation.In his early poems, we can imagine a bright and lively child roaming happily in the seaside, mountains, villages, and fields of his hometown; , the locomotive, the sounds of cottages, the bleating of cattle on hillsides, were all wonderful music to him; the sea, the ever-changing Adriatic Sea, was especially the nurse and master of his imagination ( As far as his strange essays about the sea are concerned, he is already enough to occupy an immortal position in the literary world, and Swinbuue is not as deep and delicate as him), not only the colorful world, but also the most mediocre and dull things. The detection of his supernatural feeling is also full of meaning and beauty.As far as the difference of things is concerned, white stone is white stone, coral is coral, white scorpion is not red maple, and green elm is not poplar. This abstract concept of "everything is different" can also give him indescribable surprise and joy, as if He has figured out the mysteries of the universe.

Of course, his youth was the age of his erotic roar, and ordinary people may gradually realize his sexuality, but he discovered it shyly, but it was actually the explosion of the flaming rock, destroying all obstacles and restraints, in the blue sky. Shaking fierce long flames.His bold narration in his autobiography, his absolute confession, is like a hungry tiger eating people, and the ground is full of blood and flesh, but he still calmly licked his sharp claws, shook his powerful tail, and roared a few times. Voice, report his grades. "Meat!" he cried, and I give myself to you, like a young beardless king, to that beautiful, terrible maid in armor, and behold, here she comes!She came back victorious.Walking solemnly in the cheering city streets.Half terror, half love, the tender king, whose hopes mocked his fears.This is his big statement: In fact, he was not purely indulgent, he was not a slave to the flesh, and the sexual impulse in adulthood was just the great driving force to liberate his genius, and he began his creative life from then on. "Flesh, you are like superb grapes trampled by flaming toes, like trails of blood dripping on white snow."

His first collection of poems, Primo Vere, was published that year, next year he published his Canto Novo, and next year his Intermezzo di Rime, when Carducci was the leading poet of Italy, Dannon Xuewu’s early Poetry is most influenced by him.His rhetoric is rich and elegant, rich but elegant, which is the achievement of his private Shuka.At the same time, he also published his short stories, the first is Terra Virgine1883, the second is II Libro delle Virgini, and the third is Sanpanta loere. His material is the barbaric customs of his hometown.The style of his short stories is different from his early poems. Influenced by Maupassant, he uses bright and clean stippling to write profound psychology, but this is his relatively unimportant work.

His second period begins with his first visit to Rome.For the first time, this extraordinary boy came from his humble hometown to the most glorious city, from his simple and wild friends to the most gentle society, and from his rough seashore to meet the greatest art. One can imagine how this great change drastically affected his budding poetic talent and aroused his dormant ambition.A famous evaluator in Italy said, "Abruzzo gave him the concept of nation, and Rome gave him the impression of history." Rome is not only the witness of great historical sites, not only the treasure house of art, but also the standard of human culture forever. It is a center of worship, and we cannot think of a poet or artist in modern times who did not come to this immortal ancient city to get the inspiration he needed.Since the political unification of Italy, this ancient city has been regenerated once again. At the beginning, the power of the empire responded once, and the patriotic enthusiasm of the Italians seemed to turn into thousands of rainbows, shining in the pure blue sky. Celebrating the eternal history of the Third Italy and the city of Rome with the ruins of the Peter Temple and the ancient theater, a group of poets in Caduce, of course, also tried their best to sing the praises and fuel the flames of patriotism.When Dannon Xuewu first arrived in Rome, when nationalism was boiling, he also threw himself into this raging tide, pouring out his genius for praising to his heart's content. It was ridiculous, but he has since gained fame, attracted national attention, and concealed his future political career.

Works by Dannon Snow

Immediately after Rome, Dannon Xuewu encountered another great influence: he read Nietzsche.The spirituality of Dannon Xuewu's art has been fully awakened. With his innate strong sensuality, he insatiably absorbs the nourishment of imagination in the material world, and he has also discovered his own inner tendency; Curiosity, worship of power, love of absurdity and peculiarity, even love of fierceness, love of tyranny, love of victory and destruction, love of self-realization.

He is unwilling to walk on the road that others have trodden. He loves to plunge into the thorns to open up new paths. Bloodshed is his joy, and danger is his desire. Superman has long been his latent ideal.Now he mirrors his own physique in the mirror of Nietzsche's fantasy.His original blind impulse has been explained by philosophy, the original tangled emotions have revealed a coherent meaning, and the original unclear desire has turned into a source of inspiration for his art.

Nietzsche gave him the standard, showed him the way.Strengthened his self-confidence and urged his progress.Later Nietzsche died in the lunatic asylum, and Dannon Xuewu wrote an elegy to mourn him, respecting him as "the great destroyer, who raised the Greek gods before the 'gate of the future'".Nietzsche was a "Greek who was born 2000 years late"; so Dannon Xuewu has also admired the spirit of ancient Greece since then, worshiping the gods of Olympic, the symbol of greatness, victory and calm; the pursuit of pure beauty has become the object of his art.

But he is not the inheritor of all Nietzsche's thoughts; he only extracts his superhuman ideal, which is still his own subjective interpretation.His extraordinarily strong senses limited his powers of reasoning, and the poverty of his abstract thought was as startling as the richness of his imagination; he was a pure artist.

Since then, "transhumanism" has implemented the state of his life and also implemented his works.The characters in his novels and plays are just the incarnation of his ideal superman, the man is a superman, the woman is a superwoman, the soul and body are just the expression of pure force, wearing gold clothes, mouth With golden words, he seeks life in the rush of love, and seeks ideals in the real world.

At that time, the literary and artistic circles in Europe were in the process of transformation.French symbolist poets, following the path opened by Poe and Baudelaire in the United States, seek unique tones and charms from unique text structures, and only care about the requirements and satisfaction of art. Experiences and facts that have been taboo or disgusted; with the strangeness of tragic death, the paradise of decorative art is said in arrogance; a new thrill is found in literature.Gotti Margaret's gorgeous poems and prose in praise of the body; Robe and Zola's portrayal of the ugly and despicable life; the aestheticism of Field and Wilde; The main elements affecting Dannon Xuewu.His "Innocents" has a strong relationship with "Crime and Punishment"; "Death's Victory" has similarities with Zola.

However, although Dannon Xuewu tried his best to absorb the thoughts and art of contemporary authors, he still retains his unique splendor; the characteristics of his Latin nation in Alpsnan, only Russia can produce Gogol, Only France can produce Francs (Anatole France), only England can produce Jane Austen, and only Italy can produce Dannon Schew.The Nordic people value rationality and restraint; the Southern European people value instinct and like indulgence.Dannon Xuewu's specialty is his "deep carnal desire" and uncontrollable impulse. For him, life is love, and love is art.Life is the activity of the senses. Without keen senses, life is blank.The beauty of all beautiful things, in his view, is just a subtly structured substance, agglomerated from the sensations, pleasure and pain, aroused by the visible world. A sharp and exciting moment.This is his "view on life", this is his self-realization, the method of developing personality, fully cultivating the instinct of art, fully encouraging the genius of creation, refining our life elements in the flame of deep pleasure and pain, To sharpen the fibers of our being on the rough stone of immediate experience.

Appreciate the reality of beauty from all experience (experience of the senses); appreciate the reality of beauty in its purest form from the mystery of women.Women are natural materials for art, they can accept the faintest traces of sound waves, and can be tailored by the poet's ingenuity.The state of a woman when she is about to meet her lover; her voice, her gestures, her sudden excitements and sudden stops, her clothes reveal the trembling of her muscles, the flickering of her cheeks The shades of color, her passionate gaze radiating the emotion of the battle, the occasional scent from her vermilion lips: these are the phenomena on which the artist should focus his observation.

(End of this chapter)