Аннотация: 'Dumas père and Dumas fils' as the cultural symbol of a 'New France'. Essay.
'Dumas père and Dumas fils' as the cultural symbol of a 'New France'. Essay.
After the Napoleonic Wars, an industrial revolution took place in France. Can an economically developed France be called the 'new France'? Probably, yes.
A "new France" was characterized by a new cultural phenomena.
Let us look, for example, on such a phenomenon as 'Dumas père and Dumas fils' ("Dumas the father and Dumas the son)."
Parisians, Frenchmen could see both (two) Dumas - and when Dumas fils (Dumas-son) was a little boy, and when he became a grown man.
An ordinary townsman saw two pretty people.
Meanwhile, 'Dumas père and Dumas fils' were one of the cultural symbols of a 'New France'.
Here are three aspects that lie on the surface, for example:
1) A social tolerance.
2) Talent and success. Upbringing-education-social environment. The value of home parenting.
3) The strength of family ties and the money factor.
The history of the education of Dumas fils (Dumas-son) in one of the boarding houses [guesthouses] (for a short time) confirms the presence in a society of that time of persistent prejudices towards children born out of wedlock.
But Dumas fils is growing up, manifests himself in a creativity. The phenomenon of a 'Dumas père and Dumas fils' appears. Prejudice recedes, gradually disappears. Is this phenomenon a changes in a public morality?
Both Dumas père and Dumas fils were talented writers. What was their education? With some simplification, we can say that neither the father nor the son had any serious education (both writers studied at colleges for several years).
Did the lack of a serious education prevent them, talented people, from the achieving a success? No, it didn't prevent...
Through the 'Dumas père and Dumas fils' we can see Michael Faraday and Thomas Edison - a new algorithms of the success of talented people in Western Europe and the USA.
We also note that the 'Dumas père and Dumas fils' show the importance of a home parenting, of an energetic an interested self education.
Often under conditions of the dominance of bourgeois relations and the advancement of money to a forefront, a human and family ties were called into question. (A one of the noticeable themes of world literature).
'Dumas père and Dumas fils' became a symbol of strong family ties, not subject to the negative influence of money ...
The creativity of these writers was of independent significance. And 'Dumas père and Dumas fils' was an independent cultural phenomenon.
Maybe when Parisians, Frenchmen were looking at Dumas père and Dumas fils, they were seeing a positive present and a good future of France.
'I heard,' - recalls Dr. Meniere, - 'how Alexandre Dumas spoke about Waterloo to the generals who were in the battle. He spoke incessantly, explained where and how the troops stood, and repeated the heroic words spoken there. One of the generals finally managed to interrupt him -
'But all this is not so, my dear... We were there, we ...'
'So, my general, you definitely did not see anything there. ..'
(Quote - from the book by André Maurois 'Three Dumas' ["Titans: A Three-Generation Biography of the Dumas"]). (The quotation - translation from the Russian-language text).
November 21, 2019 17:55
Translation from Russian into English: November 22, 2019 11:34.
Владимир Владимирович Залесский '"Дюма-отец и Дюма-сын" как культурный символ "Новой Франции". Очерк.'.