Sherwood Anderson was an American writer who was mainly known for his short stories, most notably the collection Winesburg, Ohio. That work's influence on American fiction was profound, and its literary voice can be heard in Ernest Hemingway, William Faulkner, Thomas Wolfe, John Steinbeck, Erskine Caldwell and others.
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Sherwood Anderson, (1876-1941), was an American short-story writer and novelist. Although none of his novels was wholly successful, several of his short stories have become classics. Anderson was a major influence on the generation of American writers who came after him. These writers included Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, and William Faulkner. Anderson thus occupies a place in literary history that cannot be fully explained by the literary quality of his work.
Anderson was born on Sept. 13, 1876, in Camden, Ohio. He never finished high school because he had to work to support his family. By 1912, he was the successful manager of a paint factory in Elyria, Ohio, and the father of three children by the first of his four wives. In 1912, Anderson deserted his family and job. In early 1913, he moved to Chicago, where he devoted more time to his imaginative writing. He became a heroic model for younger writers because he broke with what they considered to be American materialism and convention to commit himself to art.
Anderson's most important book is WINESBURG, OHIO (1919), a collection of 22 stories. The stories explore the lives of inhabitants of Winesburg, a fictional version of Clyde, Ohio, the small farm town where Anderson lived for about 12 years of his early life. These tales made a significant break with the traditional American short story. Instead of emphasizing plot and action, Anderson used a simple, precise, unsentimental style to reveal the frustration, loneliness, and longing in the lives of his characters. These characters are stunted by the narrowness of Midwestern small-town life and by their own limitations.
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发表于2024-05-08
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人的一生发生了很多事。 而安德森让我们知道,人一辈子也就只是那么一两件事情而已。 有学者将这种创作叫做“记忆写作”。即取人物记忆中最深刻印象的事件描述的写作手段。这当然是非常接近现代派的意识流创作的思想了,心理真实才是人最大的真实。这个事件尘埃落地的瞬间,人...
评分很多年来,它已成为我阅读记忆中的一块闪光的区域,这区域的质量不太屈从我生活轨迹中的真实和幻景。如舍伍德•安德森自己所说的那样,那些在生活表层之下静静呼吸的真理就是一个奇妙的混合物,它时刻激起我们对于生死的情感,并在此之后将一种即虚妄又真切的观察交付给世界...
评分将要谈及的这本短篇故事集《小城畸人》,可能超出许多人对短篇小说的预判。这并非出于作者意愿,他没有那么大的野心。对于一个出身贫寒,没有受过多少正经教育,43岁才获得小说家声誉的男人来说,成功更像是个意外,一条不在地图上的歧路。 然而放到美国文学史中,这份成功意义...
评分将要谈及的这本短篇故事集《小城畸人》,可能超出许多人对短篇小说的预判。这并非出于作者意愿,他没有那么大的野心。对于一个出身贫寒,没有受过多少正经教育,43岁才获得小说家声誉的男人来说,成功更像是个意外,一条不在地图上的歧路。 然而放到美国文学史中,这份成功意义...
评分很多年来,它已成为我阅读记忆中的一块闪光的区域,这区域的质量不太屈从我生活轨迹中的真实和幻景。如舍伍德•安德森自己所说的那样,那些在生活表层之下静静呼吸的真理就是一个奇妙的混合物,它时刻激起我们对于生死的情感,并在此之后将一种即虚妄又真切的观察交付给世界...
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'Here [is] a new order of short story,' said H. L. Mencken when Winesburg, Ohio was published in 1919. 'It is so vivid, so full of insight, so shiningly life-like and glowing, that the book is lifted into a category all its own.' Indeed, Sherwood Anderson's timeless cycle of loosely connected tales--in which a young reporter named George Willard probes the hopes, dreams, and fears of the solitary people in a small Midwestern town at the turn of the century--embraced a new frankness and realism that ushered American literature into the modern age. 'There are moments in American life to which Anderson gave not only the first but the final expression,' wrote Malcolm Cowley. 'Winesburg, Ohio is far from the pessimistic or morbidly sexual work it was once attacked for being. Instead it is a work of love, an attempt to break down the walls of loneliness, and, in its own fashion, a celebration of small-town life in the lost days of good will and innocence.'
忙碌到根本没有时间读书,空虚加悲伤啊。
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评分忙碌到根本没有时间读书,空虚加悲伤啊。
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评分The reason a movie like On the Beach, books like Winsburg, Ohio and For Whom the Bell Tolls are bad to the point of being laughable, but not bad to the point of being enjoyable, is that they are too dogged and pretentious. They lack fantasy. (p. 284)
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