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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.'
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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Lonely, loveless, longing to beloved.
評分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)
評分Lonely, loveless, longing to beloved.
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評分小鎮群像的結構讓我想起奈保爾的《米格爾街》,但是Sherwood Anderson的文字真的太過平庸,很多expression不斷重復齣現,不得不讓我為他的描述詞匯感到捉襟。可能讀翻譯版語言貧乏的感覺會沒那麼強烈。不太懂為什麼那麼多大傢會捧他為尊師,包括奧茲。
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...
評分很多年来,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...
評分看了一半时实在看不下去了,安德森描述的确实是些神经质的人,至少初读下来我是这样想的。后来看了一些书评,对它的评价都很好,影响了很多名人,不管怎样,我是同意“生命的历史只是片断的历史。只有在极少数的片断里,我们才真正地活着。”这句话,畸人是一群在绝望中默默...
評分《亚利桑那之梦》里年青的阿克塞尔背井离乡去纽约做一份说不上有前途的工作但坚持着留在那里。他并不是一个野心勃勃的人,相反,他具有的更多的是不适合成功的梦幻般恍惚的气质,他之所以喜欢纽约是因为:在大城市里,你可以看见别人,但别人不会看见你。而《追风筝的人》里的...
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