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.'
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...
評分(门外汉的一点瞎感想,内行轻拍) 一年以来,我对虚构类作品的阅读几乎主要集中在短篇小说上,尤其是现代短篇小说。就我外行的直觉而言,长篇小说接近于一项建筑工事,而短篇小说则更像是一门手艺。现代小说的材料之细与工艺之精日臻极致,以至于可以脱离指向,作为纯粹结构...
評分一、导言---心灵魔术游戏 二十世纪初叶,当黑塞赫尔曼耽迷于他所创造的自我魔剧院,并在其中将灵魂无情的碎裂为错综复杂、杂乱无章的心灵映像时,舍伍德安德森则于梦境的迷蒙和暗夜天空某种隐秘的召唤下,潜心致力于人性的分割组合。他像一个高超的魔术音乐师,用片断为指挥棒...
評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...
評分安德森的名气主要来自他的两个学生。一个叫福克纳,一个叫海明威。两个人都是美国文坛——错了,世界文坛上赫赫有名的人物。貌似安德森跟他俩沾光了。 但是我不知道你读没读过福克纳、海明威和安德森的小说。就我个人经验来看,福克纳的小说读着让人想睡觉(也可能是SB翻译的问...
They are everything about lonliness and the grotesques. The language is plain and colloquial, without ornament, yet so absorbing.
评分可以說是24種孤獨瞭。看到有人說覺得安德森用詞平庸,然而用最普通的詞做最準確的錶達纔是本事,何況還滿是詩意。另外,覺得他反復使用的up and down也自有深意,代錶的是那些被牆睏住無可逃遁的人們的焦躁的心。
评分忙碌到根本沒有時間讀書,空虛加悲傷啊。
评分我感覺George是多少帶點自傳色彩的人物,整本書以他的成長為綫索,白描齣小鎮的各色小人物小故事。翻譯成"畸人"有點偏頗,故事裏的人大都被壓抑,被孤立(或天性孤僻),缺乏理解和溝通。由於時代限製,小地方閉塞,道德觀念仍然十分傳統,所以與欲望鬥爭的修道士,對愛抱有幻想的師奶,急於證明自己"正常"的偏執狂,以及生理需求得不到解決的少男少女,都成瞭"小鎮畸人"。可是在現實生活中,又有誰能算得上完全的正常人呢?忽然想起另一部我鍾情的小說,鬍廷武的 九聽,也是這種風格,形散而神不散。小城故事多,歡迎來做客
评分忙碌到根本沒有時間讀書,空虛加悲傷啊。
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