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乔治·桑1832年，她第一次以"喬治.桑 (George Sand) "這一男性筆名發表兩部小說，分別是《安蒂亞娜》和《瓦朗蒂娜》。兩本小說講述的都是愛情失意的女人的故事。這是她一生中創作精力最旺盛的年代，從1833年至1836年，她相繼發表《萊麗婭》、《雅剋》和《莫普拉》。這些小說都是以作傢早年的感情生活為基礎寫的，表達作者對愛情的感受與觀點。喬治.桑 (George Sand) 認為愛情就是生命，是人們至高無上的權利和義務，愛情應剋服一切偏見和習俗，擺脫一切羈絆和束縛。喬治.桑 (George Sand) 的作品從一開始就具有顯著的浪漫主義元素。
在巴黎生活期間，喬治.桑 (George Sand) 熱衷於喬裝成男性出入各種公開場合，尤其是出席一些禁止女性參加的集會。這在19世紀的法國是一種驚世駭俗的舉動，尤其為上流社會所不容許。也正是因為如此，喬治.桑 (George Sand) 始終沒有再次嫁給某個伯爵或公爵。這些不尋常的舉動很快就使得喬治.桑 (George Sand) 成為法國文壇聲名大噪的人物。她的作品為嚴肅有餘、溫婉不足的19世紀法國文學註入了清新的空氣。她和當時著名的青年詩人繆塞以及著名鋼琴傢肖邦的戀情使得她的人生更富傳奇色彩。
1836年之後，喬治.桑 (George Sand) 結識了一些資産階級自由派及空想社會主義者，開始關註社會不公現象並創作"社會問題小說"。其成就最高的作品《康素愛蘿》（1843）和《安吉堡的磨工》就創作於這一時期。這些小說雖然具有現實主義的某些特徵，但仍屬於浪漫主義範疇。喬治.桑 (George Sand) 的小說多以愛情為主題，贊頌勞動者，貶斥貴族和富人。
1848年，路易-菲利浦下臺，成立臨時共和政府，喬治.桑 (George Sand) 積極參加活動，撰寫《致人民的信》，甚至為臨時政府的公共教育部及內政部撰寫公報。6月份工人，喬治.桑 (George Sand) 懾於工人的聲勢，回到諾昂，從此不再寫"社會問題"小說，也不再過問，開始以充滿靜謐與無邪的田園情趣為題材來寫作，發掘人心中高貴與美好的一面。
其實早在1846年，喬治.桑 (George Sand) 就已經開始對田園生活感興趣。這一年她發表了著名的田園小說《魔沼》，全書沒有復雜的情節和冗長的理論闡述，而是自始至終充滿詩意。這部作品奠定了作傢晚期創作的基調。
晚年的喬治.桑 (George Sand) 的創作受到了法國啓蒙思想傢盧梭的影響，追求反璞歸真、回歸自然。這一時期她的代表作品包括小說《棄兒弗朗索瓦》（1848）、《小法岱特》（1849）和《我的生活》（1855）。兩部小說都描寫充滿浪漫情調的愛情，其間可見盧梭《新愛洛依絲》的影子。
喬治.桑 (George Sand) 晚期的創作還有一個顯著的特點，就是描寫農民的生活。這在貴族傳統根基深厚的法國文學史上是沒有先例的。儘管農民的生活在田園牧歌的鄉村背景中被女作傢理想化，但仍具有劃時代的意義。喬治.桑 (George Sand) 在一些小說中采用糅合了土語的樸素法語，具有濃郁的鄉土氣息。
這一時期，喬治.桑 (George Sand) 還發表了《他與她》（1859），追憶早年和繆塞的戀情。
晚年的喬治.桑 (George Sand) 熱情好客，她在諾昂的莊園成為當時法國文學界名流的聚會場所。聖勃夫、米什萊、福樓拜、小仲馬、巴爾紮剋等人經常拜訪她。
1876年，喬治.桑 (George Sand) 在諾昂去世，享年72歲。死後，她被埋葬在諾昂。2004年，曾有人建議將她的遺體移至巴黎的先賢祠。
Early life
Sand's father, Maurice Dupin, was the grandson of the Marshal General of France, Maurice, Comte de Saxe, himself an illegitimate son of August the Strong, King of Poland and a Saxon elector, and a cousin to the sixth degree to the kings of France Louis XVI, Louis XVIII and Charles X. Sand's mother, Sophie-Victoire Delaborde, was a commoner. Sand was born in Paris but raised for much of her childhood by her grandmother, Marie Aurore de Saxe, Madame Dupin de Franceuil, at her grandmother's estate, Nohant, in the French province of Berry (See House of George Sand). She later used the setting in many of her novels. It has been said that her upbringing was quite liberal. In 1822, at the age nineteen, she married Baron Casimir Dudevant (1795–1871), illegitimate son of Baron Jean-François Dudevant. She and Dudevant had two children: Maurice (1823–1889) and Solange (1828–1899). In early 1831, she left her prosaic husband and entered upon a four- or five-year period of "romantic rebellion." In 1835, she was legally separated from Dudevant and took her children with her.
Contemporary views
Sand's reputation came into question when she began sporting men's clothing in public — which she justified by the clothes being far sturdier and less expensive than the typical dress of a noblewoman at the time. In addition to being comfortable, Sand's male dress enabled her to circulate more freely in Paris than most of her female contemporaries, and gave her increased access to venues from which women were often barred — even women of her social standing.
Also scandalous was Sand's smoking tobacco in public; neither peerage nor gentry had yet sanctioned the free indulgence of women in such a habit, especially in public (though Franz Liszt's paramour Marie D'Agoult affected this as well, smoking large cigars). These and other behaviors were exceptional for a woman of the early and mid-19th century, when social codes—especially in the upper classes—were of the utmost importance.
As a consequence of many unorthodox aspects of her lifestyle, Sand was obliged to relinquish some of the privileges appertaining to a baroness — though, interestingly, the mores of the period did permit upper-class wives to live physically separated from their husbands, without losing face, provided the estranged couple exhibited no blatant irregularity to the outside world.
Poet Charles Baudelaire was a contemporary critic of George Sand: "She is stupid, heavy and garrulous. Her ideas on morals have the same depth of judgment and delicacy of feeling as those of janitresses and kept women.... The fact that there are men who could become enamoured of this slut is indeed a proof of the abasement of the men of this generation."
Relationships
Sand conducted affairs of varying duration with Jules Sandeau (1831), Prosper Mérimée, Alfred de Musset (summer 1833 – March 1835), Louis-Chrystosome Michel, Pierre-François Bocage, Félicien Mallefille and Frédéric Chopin (1837–47). Later in life, she corresponded with Gustave Flaubert. Despite their obvious differences in temperament and aesthetic preference, they eventually became close friends.
She was engaged in an intimate friendship with actress Marie Dorval, which led to widespread but unconfirmed rumors of a lesbian affair. Letters written by Sand to Dorval mentioned things like "wanting you either in your dressing room or in your bed."
In Majorca one can still visit the (then abandoned) Carthusian monastery of Valldemossa, where she spent the winter of 1838–39 with Chopin and her children. This trip to Majorca was described by her in Un Hiver à Majorque (A Winter in Majorca), published in 1855. Chopin was already ill with incipient tuberculosis at the beginning of their relationship, and spending a winter in Majorca - where Sand and Chopin did not realize that winter was a time of rain and cold, and where they could not get proper lodgings - exacerbated his symptoms.
They split two years before his death, for a culmination of reasons. Sand's insecurities at forty probably contributed to her boredom and sexual dissatisfaction with Chopin. In Lucrezia Floriani, a novel, Sand used Chopin as a model for a sickly Eastern European prince named Karol. He's cared for by a middle-aged actress past her prime, Lucrezia, who suffers a great deal by caring for Karol. Though Sand claimed not to have made a cartoon out of Chopin, the book's publication and widespread readership may have exacerbated their apathy to each other. However, the tipping point in their relationship involved her daughter Solange. Chopin continued to be cordial to Solange after she and her husband, Auguste Clesinger, had a vicious falling out with Sand over money. Sand took Chopin's support of Solange as outright treachery, and confirmation that Chopin had always "loved" Solange. Sand's son Maurice also disliked Chopin. Maurice wanted to establish himself as the 'man of the estate,' and did not wish to have Chopin as a rival for that role. Chopin was never asked back to Nohant. In 1848, he returned to Paris from a tour of the UK and died at the Place Vendôme. Chopin was penniless at that point; his friends had to pay for his stay there, as well as his funeral at the Madeleine. The funeral was attended by over 3,000 people, including Delacroix, Liszt, Victor Hugo and other famous people. George Sand, however, was notable by her absence.
Writing career
A liaison with the writer Jules Sandeau heralded her literary debut. They published a few stories in collaboration, signing them "Jules Sand." Her first published novel, Rose et Blanche (1831), was written in collaboration with Sandeau. She subsequently adopted, for her first independent novel, Indiana (1832), the pen name that made her famous – George Sand.
Drawing from her childhood experiences of the countryside, she wrote the rural novels La Mare au Diable (1846), François le Champi (1847–1848), La Petite Fadette (1849), and Les Beaux Messieurs Bois-Doré (1857). A Winter in Majorca described the period that she and Chopin spent on that island in 1838-9.
Her other novels include Indiana (1832), Lélia (1833), Mauprat (1837), Le Compagnon du Tour de France (1840), Consuelo (1842–1843), and Le Meunier d'Angibault (1845).
Further theatre pieces and autobiographical pieces include Histoire de ma vie (1855), Elle et Lui (1859) (about her affair with Musset), Journal Intime (posthumously published in 1926), and Correspondence. Sand often performed her theatrical works in her small private theatre at the Nohant estate.
In addition, Sand authored literary criticism and political texts. She wrote many essays and published works establishing her socialist position. Because of her early life, she sided with the poor and working class. When the 1848 Revolution began, women had no rights and Sand believed these were necessary for progress. Around this time Sand started her own newspaper which was published in a workers' co-operative. This allowed her to publish more political essays. She wrote "I cannot believe in any republic that starts a revolution by killing its own proletariat."
Her most widely used quote is "There is only one happiness in life, to love and be loved."
She was known well in far reaches of the world, and her social practices, her writings and her beliefs prompted much commentary, often by other luminaries in the world of arts and letters. A few excerpts demonstrate much of what was often said about George Sand:
"She was a thinking bosom and one who overpowered her young lovers, all Sybil — a Romantic."
V.S. Pritchett (writer)
"What a brave man she was, and what a good woman."
Ivan Turgenev (novelist)
"The most womanly woman."
Alfred de Musset (poet)
Death
George Sand died at Nohant, near Châteauroux, in France's Indre département on 8 June 1876, at the age of 71 and was buried in the grounds of her home there. In 2004, controversial plans were suggested to move her remains to the Panthéon in Paris.
Works
Voyage en Auvergne (autobiographical sketch, 1827)
Compagnon du tour De France (1840)
La Petite Fadette (1848)
Château des Désertes (1850)
Histoire de ma vie (autobiography up to the revolution of 1848; 1855)
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Novels
Rose et Blanche (1831, with Jules Sandeau)
Indiana (1832)
Valentine (1832)
Lélia (1833)
Andréa (1833)
Mattéa (1833)
Jacques (1833)
Kouroglou / Épopée Persane (1833)
Leone Leoni (1833)
Simon (1835)
Mauprat (1837)
Les Maîtres mosaïtes (1837)
L'Oreo (1838)
L'Uscoque (1838)
Spiridion (1839)
Un hiver à Majorque (1839)
Pauline (1839)
Horace (1840)
Consuelo (1842)
La Comtesse de Rudolstadt (1843, a sequel to Consuelo)
Jeanne (1844)
Teverino (1845)
Le Péché de M. Antoine (1845)
Le Meunier d'Angibault (1845)
La Mare au diable (1846)
Lucrezia Floriani (1846)
François le Champi (1847)
La Petite Fadette (1849)
Les Maîtres sonneurs (1853)
La Daniella (1857)
Elle et Lui (1859)
Jean de la Roche (1859)
L'Homme de neige (1859)
La Ville noire (1860)
Marquis de Villemer (1860)
Mademoiselle La Quintinie (1863)
Laura, Voyage dans le cristal (1864)
Le Dernier Amour (1866, dedicated to Flaubert)
La Marquise (1834)
Plays
Gabriel (1839)
François le Champi (1849)
Claudie (1851)
Le Mariage le Victorine (1851)
Le Pressoir (1853, Play)
French Adaptation of As You Like It (1856)
Le Marquis de Villemer (1864)
L'Autre (1870, with Sarah Bernhardt)
In literature
Frequent literary references to George Sand can be found in Possession (1990) by A. S. Byatt. The American poet Walt Whitman cited Sand's novel Consuelo as a personal favorite and the sequel to this novel La Comtesse De Rudolstady contains at least a couple of passages that appear to have had a very direct influence on him. Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806–1861), the English poet, produced two poems "To George Sand: A Desire" and "To George Sand: A Recognition". The character, Stepan Verkhovensky, in Dostoevsky's novel The Possessed took to translating the works of George Sand in his periodical, before the periodical was subsequently seized by the ever-cautious Russian government of the 1840s. George Sand is referenced a number of times in the play Voyage, the first part of Tom Stoppard's The Coast of Utopia trilogy. And, in the first episode of the "Overture" to Swann's Way - the first novel in Marcel Proust's In Search of Lost Time sequence - a young, distraught Marcel is calmed by his mother as she reads from François le Champi, a novel which it is explained was part of a birthday package from his grandmother which also included La Mare au Diable, La Petite Fadette, and Les Maîtres Sonneurs. As with many episodes involving art in À la recherche du temps perdu, this reminiscence includes commentary on the work. George Sand also makes an appearance in Isabel Allende's Zorro, going still by her given name, as a young girl in love with Diego de la Vega (Zorro).
In music, film, TV
A Song to Remember (1945), directed by Charles Vidor, starring Merle Oberon as George Sand and Cornel Wilde as Chopin.
Song Without End (1960), also directed by Vidor (who died during production and direction was assumed by George Cukor), in which Dirk Bogarde starred as Franz Liszt; Patricia Morison played a cameo role as George Sand
Notorious Woman (1974), a 7-part BBC miniseries starring Rosemary Harris as George Sand and George Chakiris as Chopin.
In 1976, the band Ambrosia recorded the song "Danse With Me, George (Chopin's Plea)", based on Sand and Chopin's romance. It appeared on Ambrosia's Album "Somewhere I've Never Travelled."
Impromptu (1991), starring Judy Davis as George Sand and Hugh Grant as Chopin.
Les Enfants du siècle (1999), starring Juliette Binoche as George Sand and Benoît Magimel as Alfred de Musset
Chopin (2002), directed by Jerzy Antczak starring Danuta Stenka as George Sand and Piotr Adamczyk as Chopin.
Gossip Girl (2008), Blair Waldorf plans to astonish the dean of Yale University by answering 'George Sand' to his question of whom she would have dinner with, dead or alive. In another episode, Blair Waldorf says "Why rip off a page of your life when you can throw the whole book into the fire? George Sand, she understands me."
In 2007, Céline Dion recorded a song based on a love letter sent from George Sand to Alfred de Musset for her album D'Elles.
The game Eternal Sonata mentions the relationship between George Sand and Chopin.
The band Meg & Dia have a song based on Sand's novel Indiana
A song from Cole Porter's 1933 London show, "Nymph Errant" was entitled "Georgia Sand" in reference to Sand.