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."
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。 [小城畸人] 然而放到美国文学史中,...
评分11月30日 《没有人知道》这个短篇,很简短,写的又是平常的事,读来却自有一股感动的力量。这源于作者对人物性格、心理以及对周遭环境的细致描摹。记得有人说,爱情最美妙、最醉人的时刻,是还没有捅破那层纸的那些时光。这篇小说,写的就是捅破那层纸的小事。我猜想,大概...
评分你读过舍伍德·安德森吗? 在读这本书之前,我对舍伍德•安德森这个名字几乎完全陌生,只知道这本书还有另一个更为人熟知的名字——《小城畸人》,相比这一更明确的译名,《俄亥俄,温斯堡》虽然表意模糊,但念起来,却更有味道,有诗的韵律感,而这种诗意和韵律感几乎贯穿...
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...
评分11月30日 《没有人知道》这个短篇,很简短,写的又是平常的事,读来却自有一股感动的力量。这源于作者对人物性格、心理以及对周遭环境的细致描摹。记得有人说,爱情最美妙、最醉人的时刻,是还没有捅破那层纸的那些时光。这篇小说,写的就是捅破那层纸的小事。我猜想,大概...
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。
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