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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'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.'
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Winesburg,Ohio读后感 故事集中在一个小城。准确来说是一个关系网交错,彼此知根知底的小镇,他们的世界天然地隔绝在一方天地上,聆听着彼此的故事,却带着复杂的眼神。 作者是美国文学大师舍伍德•安德森,他构思的故事彼此分立甚至彼此对立,却用隐晦的线条交织在一起。入...
评分世上本没有真理,只有各种各样的想法。人们拿许多还不成熟的想法拼啊凑啊,造出了真理。然后真理越来越多,充满了世界的各个角落。所有的真理都很迷人。 翻译是份很亲密的差事。 逐字逐句地耕过去,仿佛用脸贴着原文,一寸一寸地去嗅字里行间的气味。有时角色难以捉摸,有时力...
评分当树上的果实一个个红红的等待摘取时,果树上的枝桠当中还会躲藏着那些不好看的萍果,外表不圆润,缺乏光鲜,看着青涩,但是真正的摘取品尝一下,你的口味就会被与众不同所改变。这里所说的比喻来自《小城畸人》里面的一个故事。小城畸人---之一是个医生,有怪癖的人。高高大大...
作家牛逼的地方在于,明明他们也只能活一次自己的人生,却能够把和自己不同性别,来自不同背景,成长于不同环境,经历着不同事件的各种人物在各种境遇下的各种时刻的行为表现、甚至最微妙的心理感受写得就像自己经历过一样准确真实。就好像活了一百种人生一样。
评分近期读的最好的一本书之一!串在一起的小故事,会跟故事里的人一起就悲伤起来,高兴起来,和最后又无力~我一点都没觉得他们是畸人,压抑,无法沟通,someone must live and die alone~
评分<小城畸人>. 关于一个小镇上一帮渴望得到爱和理解的人们
评分可以说是24种孤独了。看到有人说觉得安德森用词平庸,然而用最普通的词做最准确的表达才是本事,何况还满是诗意。另外,觉得他反复使用的up and down也自有深意,代表的是那些被墙困住无可逃遁的人们的焦躁的心。
评分可以说是24种孤独了。看到有人说觉得安德森用词平庸,然而用最普通的词做最准确的表达才是本事,何况还满是诗意。另外,觉得他反复使用的up and down也自有深意,代表的是那些被墙困住无可逃遁的人们的焦躁的心。
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