Introduction to Alexandre Dumas and Little Dumas

Alexander Dumas, French positive romantic writer in the 19th century. His grandfather was the Marquis de la Banatry, who married a black slave and gave birth to his father, Alexander, who was baptized with his mother's surname of Dumas. After the outbreak of the French Revolution, Alexander Dumas repeatedly performed extraordinary feats and became a revolutionary and government general. Alexandre Dumas adhered to his political views throughout his life, always opposed the monarchy, hated the Restoration Dynasty, was dissatisfied with the July Dynasty, and opposed the Second Empire. He experienced racial discrimination and was traumatized. Family background and experience made Alexandre Dumas develop a rebellious character that opposes injustice and pursues justice. Alexandre Dumas was self-taught and wrote as many as 300 volumes of various types of works throughout his life. He is mainly famous for his novels and plays. Alexandre Dumas's play "Henry III and His Court" (1829) preceded Victor Hugo's "Onani" by a year. This romantic drama completely breaks the "three unities" of classicism. There are as many as one hundred novels by Alexandre Dumas, most of which are based on real history and the protagonist's adventures as the content. The plots are full of twists and turns, and there are surprises everywhere. They can be called historical thrillers. Unusual ideal heroes, rapidly developing plots, tense fighting movements, clear and complete structures, vivid and powerful language, flexible and witty dialogues constitute the characteristics of Alexandre Dumas's novels. The most famous ones are the old translation of "The Three Musketeers", "The Three Musketeers" (1844), and "The Count of Monte Cristo". Alexandre Dumas was called "a genius novelist" by Belinsky, and he was also one of Marx's "favorite" writers.

Zhongma Xiao (1824-1895) was a French novelist and playwright. Representative works include: "La Traviata", "Three Strong People", "Diana de Lis", "Mr. Alphonse", "Denisa", etc. He is the illegitimate son of the same seamstress who gave birth to the writer Alexandre Dumas. Alexandre Dumas only recognized him as his son when he was 7 years old, but still refused to recognize his mother as his wife. As an illegitimate child, Dumas was ridiculed by the world during his childhood and adolescence. As an adult, he felt painfully that the obscene trend of French capitalist society had caused many people like his mother and son to be insulted and harmed, and he determined to change social morality through literature. He once said: "Any literature that does not take the perfection of morality, ideals and benefit as its purpose is pathological and unsound literature." This is the basic guiding ideology of his literary creation. The discussion of bourgeois social and moral issues runs through his literary creation. The painful family background had a profound impact on Dumas' life. Therefore, most of his later literary creations focused on exploring social and moral issues. In 1848, Xiao Dumas published "La Traviata" and became famous in one fell swoop. In 1852, he adapted it into a play of the same name, which was a great success, so he began to create dramas specifically. .

"My best work is you." This is a joke told by the famous French writer Alexandre Dumas to his son Dumas Jr.