Born in 1876, Sherwood Anderson grew up in a small town in Ohio - an experience that was the basis of his greatest achievements as a writer. He served in the Spanish-American War, worked as an advertising man, and managed an Ohio paint factory before abandoning both job and family to embark on a literary career in Chicago. His first novel, Windy McPherson's Son, was published in 1916; his second, Marching Men, a characteristic study of the individual in conflict with industrial society, appeared in 1917. But it is Winesburg, Ohio (1919), with its disillusioned view of small-town lives, that is generally considered his masterpiece. Later novels - Poor White, Many Marriages, and Dark Laughter - continued to depict the spiritual poverty of the machine age. Anderson died in 1941.
This timeless cycle of short stories lays bare the life of a small town in the American Midwest. The central character is George Willard, a young reporter on the Winesburg Eagle to whom, one by one, the town's inhabitans confide their hopes, their dreams, and their fears. The town of friendly but solitary people comes to life as Anderson's special talent exposes the emotional undercurrents that bind its people together. Malcolm Cowley's introduction is a penetrating reappraisal of "the only storyteller of his generation who left a mark on the style and vision of the generation that followed...Hemingway, Faulker, Wolfe, Steinbeck, Caldwell, Saroyan, and Henry Miller...each owes an unmistakable debt to Anderson."
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...
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...
看了之后我即刻把自己分离了出来,重新有了客观看生活的视角。
评分Seemingly unusual grotesques...Everyone's a freak, in one way or another.
评分Seemingly unusual grotesques...Everyone's a freak, in one way or another.
评分看前面几篇还颇受触动,可是越到后来就觉得这样一群固执地沉溺在自己世界里又受不了寂寞的人本就是——活该,连带作者这种细腻忧伤的笔调也让我很、恼、火。
评分Seemingly unusual grotesques...Everyone's a freak, in one way or another.
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