乔治·桑(一八○四——七六)是法国十九世纪上半期别具一格的作家,从基本创作倾向而言,她自始至终是一个浪漫主义者,自觉地具备着自外于现实主义潮流的意识,她曾经针对着当时在文坛上已占优势的现实主义创作方法,提出这样的反问:“是从什么时候起,小说非要描绘现实不可,非要描绘当代那些冷酷无情的人和事不可!”她明确地宣称自己是从与巴尔扎克“极不同的观点来看人类事件的”,力图“把人类描绘得如我所希望的那样,如我所认为应该的那样”。但她作为一个浪漫主义者,又并没有参加那声势浩大的浪漫主义运动,却接受了空想社会主义的影响,并且把她“相信艺术的使命便是情感与爱的使命”这一信仰,具 George Sang (1804-776), a unique writer in France in the first half of the 19th century, was a romanticist from beginning to end in her basic creative tendencies and consciously possessed her own sense of realism , She once aimed at the realist method of writing which had prevailed in the literary world at the time. She put forward the following question: “When is it that the fiction must not depict the reality, but must depict those ruthless people and events of the present age! ”She explicitly declared herself from human affairs in“ a very different perspective than Balzac, ”trying to“ portray humankind as much as I hope, as I think it should. ” However, as a romantic, she did not participate in the massive romantic movement but accepted the influence of utopian socialism and convinced her that “artistic mission is the mission of emotion and love.”