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"Épater les bourgeois" nghĩa là gì?
28 Jan, 2021
"Épater les bourgeois" -> nghĩa là khiến những người có tư tưởng, quan điểm cổ hủ hoặc tự mãn phải tức giận, khó chịu.
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I don’t want to shortchange (lừa bịp) his thoughtful elaboration (tỉ mỉ) on the subject, but it does seem to boil down for him to youths, some blue-collared, many with useless baccalaureates (kỳ thi tú tài), sublimating (chế ngự) anomie (thiếu đạo đức) into smashed car windows and the odd bit of arson. “It appeals to the adolescent appetite for transgression, the épater les bourgeois ethic of radical youth movements around the world.”
The world of the classical whodunnit (truyện trinh thám) is one of order, repression and good manners, which is why it was so successful among the English middle classes as a place to explore shocking subconscious (tiềm thúc) desires. And there is plenty épater les bourgeois in Alex Pavesi’s first novel Eight Detectives.
Shock was a tactic McQueen had already employed in his own shows and he seemed to have no problem translating that into épater les bourgeois. His debut collection was executed in gold and white, a palette (bảng màu) taken from a Givenchy label, and featured strict tailoring for femme fatales as well as corsetry for bombshell types.
Her work belongs to this alternative cannon of dispatches from the lowlife, material way beyond any two dimensional épater les bourgeois, or rock’n’roll ‘rebellion’ and speaks of an alienation and otherness so complete as to be heartbreaking.
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