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Strickland is a middle-aged stockbroker. In order to pursue his painting ideal, he abandoned his wife and other children. In the end, he was poor and sick, living on an island, but he created a series of amazing masterpieces. This book hits the nail on the head by revealing human nature and exploring love, which makes many people avoid it, and some people regard it as a standard. The ending is bleak.

Writer Sun Ganlu said:

I think Mao Mu's works are very interesting. I think there are two kinds of writers.

The first type of writer is mentally stable, but his characters are a little mentally ill, such as Mao Mu.

Another kind of writer, the writer himself is mentally unstable and writes at sixes and sevens. Joyce is typical.

Mao Mu is an experienced man. Just like his elders, he can write the first sentence of a novel and summarize it in one sentence.

Let me tell you something about life.

This kind of thing only exists in English writers. This is a very special part of English literature.

Mao Mu's novel is really a good textbook. I think Mao Mu is good at dealing with very delicate things.

This kind of thing may also be a problem brought by urbanization. Does not exist in the middle of this country.

William somerset maugham (1874~ 1965) was born in Paris on1October 25th. My father is a lawyer and works in the British Embassy in France.

Mao Mu is under the age of 10. His parents died one after another and he was sent back to England to be raised by his uncle.

Serena Hastings, the author of Mao Mu Biography, described Mao Mu's life as follows.

A lonely child, a medical student, a creative novelist, a dissolute prodigal son, a successful playwright in West End of London and a British socialite, he was in Flanders during World War I. ..

The Moon and Sixpence is one of Mao Mu's three novels, written in 19 19.

In this novel, Mao Mu tells the whole story in the first person.

The plot of this book is based on more occupations of French post-impressionist painters. The protagonist was originally a securities broker. When he reached middle age, he suddenly abandoned his wife, the splendor in everyone's eyes, and went to Tahiti Island in the South Pacific. He was inspired by living with the aborigines. Many masterpieces of art.

The moon and sixpence? On the surface, Mao Mu inherited the tradition of critical realism and exposed the ugliness of society and the degeneration of human nature.

On a deeper level, Mao Mu profoundly reveals the loneliness, absurdity and disillusionment of modern people.

Mao Mu's realist approach to expressing modernist themes is a distinctive feature that distinguishes him from other writers. The modern techniques of this book are mainly manifested in the following four aspects.

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The first is its conceptual expression. In The Moon and Sixpence, Mao Mu described the protagonist's fate and experience on the surface, but actually expressed his thoughts on the relationship between art and life.

What is the essence of art in strickland's mind, how to deal with the relationship between art and experience, whether the traditional means of expression are reliable, and whether to control the exploration of new forms of modern thinking. After many twists and turns, Strickland finally has an extremely independent independence.

Because real life is really ugly and cruel, the beautiful and elegant art on the surface is just a whitewash of reality, and the essence of art is false.

In the novel, strickland shows extreme distrust of traditional artistic means. This feeling brought difficulties to his painting performance, and he fell into the dilemma of silence and idleness, and had to find a new way to suit his own performance.

Mao Mu's thinking on artistic issues in his novels makes the novel have a strong concept, which makes the novel rich and complex polysemy. Through the confrontation between surface and deep, narrative and concept, the novel has a wide range of tension and connotation, showing strong characteristics of modern novels.

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The modernity of The Moon and Sixpence is also reflected in the fuzziness of the characters. This character does not pay attention to distinctive personality characteristics, is not a representative of someone, but a symbol of erotic spirit. The figures are vague, as faint as the distant mountain background of ink painting, giving him a fat grasp.

This is obvious in strickland. He always has a mysterious feeling of disobeying the rules in his behavior, has an unavoidable breakthrough and takes rare actions one after another.

He is taciturn and clumsy. He always hesitates when he speaks, so stop what he wants to say.

It's like a short film. Simple refinement is like telegrams.

Or not in direct contact with the reader. Most of the other witnesses' sideways tips are just looking at flowers in the fog, leaving a faint impression.

Strickland's performance shows his distrust of the established language. Due to the erosion of ugly real life, the relationship between language and what it refers to has been broken, and language has become an ideological network infiltrated with bourgeois utilitarian concepts, and has become? Dry matter? If you can't find the true meaning of things in your own mind, you can't reach your own language correctly.

On the other hand, his behavior shows his fear and worry about his true self-exposure. Every time he touches on his theme, he will be evasive, cross the topic and hide his true heart.

Play dumb, shut up and meditate for a long time.

Even if he has to accept it reluctantly, the questions and answers are extremely short, and there is no enthusiasm for dialogue and no desire to express. At the end of the novel, he wants to escape from European civilization and hide himself on a desert island.

Strickland's two situations, the extreme distrust of language and the frank fear of the true self, all show strong modern significance. Mao Mu's novels have the characteristics of modernist novels.

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The modernity of The Moon and Sixpence is also reflected in the irrational consciousness of human beings, especially in the exploration of the role of primitive wild forces in civilized society.

Throughout the19th century, a healthy life cannot be separated from reverence and obedience to form, order, reason and mode, while seeking order and mode in a certain period has surpassed many accidents and become the fashion pursued by writers at that time.

Strickland in The Moon and Sixpence also began to live in a rigid and reasonable rhythm for many years, and soon he found that his talent was gradually exhausted, his spirit was losing, and his creativity was shrinking.

So, he went to the other extreme of life, where unreasonable consciousness flooded and impacted the rational order on the surface of life with brutal, primitive and ruthless vitality. He became a monster with gloomy, arrogant and empty eyes and all ruthless and great power, and became? A voice from the threshold of eternal darkness? .

Finally, after continuous exploration, he finally found that extreme rationality and irrationality are not a healthy life, and a healthy life has rhythmic fluctuations and inertia between them. In this ever-changing life, people have upright courage and are loyal to life.

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Finally, Mao Mu is the narrator? Me? The application of the novel also makes his novel narrative mode have a new meaning.

The narrator colludes with several plates experienced by the protagonist in structure, with the intention of making them bright or dark. Me? As a witness of the event, it is directly related to the characters in the book and plays a role in promoting the story.

On the other hand? Me? The narrator, whether the author or the reader, has a complex and subtle relationship, which can be said to be the medium for the connection between the two. Narrative test may be a tool for the author to convey his thoughts and attitudes to the readers, or it may be a smoke screen created by Mao Mu to let the readers get close to their thoughts, so as to enter the charming misunderstanding deliberately released.

In The Moon and Sixpence, Strickland's wife was very sad when she learned that her husband had run away from home. He said:

At this time, I am not expressing sympathy, but vaguely observing the furniture decorated in the room in detail. After that, coupled with his wife's malice and ruthlessness towards her husband Strickland, the reader will certainly understand? Me? The attitude of such an observer saw that her sadness was just a mask.

But the narrator's attitude can only be vague hints, so no one can judge whether there is a profound meaning hidden in his attitude. Observing the movements of furniture may really be to cover up your heartfelt sympathy.

Actually, is it me? He developed himself into a veritable outsider, a real observer, and a vague deceiver created by himself, losing the right to interpret life like readers.

In this way, the narrator's attitude reflects the truth, falsehood, unreliability and complexity of life.

So, narrator? Me? Suddenly, he became confused and ignorant, and shouldered the heavy responsibility of persuading Strickland to reunite with his family.

He is full of shallow curiosity. He kept asking Strickland for more strange words, and then he wanted to give this advice and let Strickland return to the modern life he despised. The more stupid the narrator is, the more ignorant he is.

In this way, Mao Mu flexibly adjusts the relationship among readers, authors and characters in the way of narrator, without damaging readers' independence and self-confidence, so that readers unconsciously accept guidance, adjust their own ideas and understanding, and finally fully accept the author's ideas, which is consistent with the author's tendency.

After Mao Mu's novel came out, it won logically, and the characters were temporarily concerned in the literary world, and people rushed to watch it. There is no denying that this is a legendary novel.

I believe you will benefit a lot from reading.