On The Image Of Paris In Daudet’s Novels

Alphonse Daudet is world-famous as a master of the short story,but in fact he also devoted himself to the writing of novels,whose achievements in novel writing are seriously neglected.Almost all of Daudet’s novels take Paris as the story background,focusing on the description of Paris’ society,politics,culture,etc.,thus forming a series of "Parisian novels" centered on Parisian customs.Daudet’s "Paris Novel" takes the urban landscape of Paris and the daily life of city residents as clues,showing readers a vivid picture of the city of Paris.The reason why Daudet is keen on describing Paris is because of his personal life experience.Daudet’s family background,living environment and growth process provide rich materials and inspiration for his creation.Second,it was the special background,in the 19th century Paris is the important transition period of the society,the rapid development of urban civilization and industrial civilization crisis makes new changes have taken place in social structure and social landscape,Paris has inspired the creation of the dude desire,these changes prompted him in a number of novel depicts and shape the image of Paris.Daudet created three images of Paris in his novel.The first is the prosperous Paris.The novel creates a high-end and dreamy space for modern enjoyment by describing the architectural landscape and entertainment places with modern characteristics,showing the prosperity and luxury of Paris.The second is the depraved Paris.The novel reveals the corruption and hypocrisy of Paris from three aspects: individual loss in the flow of material desire,tragedy at the bottom in class confrontation and female suffering in gender conflict.The third is the tender Paris.Daudet redeemed the spiritually deserted urban characters and expressed his admiration and yearning for beautiful human nature with the help of the characters’ rebellion and breakthrough in the difficult situation,persistent pursuit of spiritual home and soothing with sincere and moving emotions.These three kinds of Paris images constitute a three-dimensional and complex Paris,expressing the author’s love-hate ambivalent attitude towards the material prosperity and negative influence brought by the social development of Paris.The image of Paris created by Daudet has three meanings.One is the three-dimensional construction of the city image.On the one hand,the novel fully displays the spiritual outlook and personality of Paris city from the perspective of multi-dimensional interactive observation.On the other hand,the creative strategy of viewing the big from the small,that is,viewing the big city from the small family,truly reproduces the life and customs of Paris.Second,rational thinking about the relationship between urban and rural areas.From the perspective of the development of urban-rural relations,there are still difficulties in urban-rural communication and interaction,so it is necessary to apply Habermas’ communication rationality theory to overcome the inherent communication mode and explore the possibility and mode of coexistence between urban modern culture and rural civilization through "dialogue".Third,the tender call for an ideal home.Through the moral choice under the conflict between good and evil and the profound reflection under the ecological crisis,Tudor constantly seeks for the harmony between man and nature,man and society,man and self,and expresses the author’s realistic concern and reflection on the ecological and cultural traditions of Paris.