马克吐温_中英文介绍

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Mark Twain’s humor is based on the humor of the Western in America
He often described persons who was innocent, simple, naive, and ignorant as his heroes or heroines.
马克· 吐温 MARK TWAIN
马克·吐温(Mark Twain,1835年11月30日- 1910年4月21日),原名萨缪尔·兰亨·克莱门 (Samuel Langhorne Clemens) 是美国的幽默 大师、小说家、作家,也是著名演说家,19
世纪后期美国现实主义文学的杰出代表。 2006年,沃伦被美国的权威期刊《大西洋月 刊》评为影响美国的100位人物之一(名列第 16位)。
drew from his own rich fund of knowledge of people and places
tall tales (highly exaggerated)
WRITING FEATURES OF MARK TWAIN
Mark Twain is famous for his humor and satire.
人物简介
虽然马克·吐温的财富不多,却无损 他高超的幽默、机智与名气,被称 为美国最知名人士之一,被誉为 “美国文学之父”擅长写讽刺小说。 其交友甚是广泛,迪士尼、魏伟德、 尼古拉·特斯拉、海伦·凯勒、亨 利·罗杰诸君,皆为其友。他曾被誉 为美国文学史上的林肯。海伦·凯勒 曾言:“我喜欢马克·吐温——谁会 不喜欢他呢?即使是上帝,亦会钟 爱他,赋予其智慧,并于其心灵里 绘画出一道爱与信仰的彩虹。”威 廉·福克纳称他为“第一位真正的美 国作家,我们都是继承他而来”。 他于1910年4月21日去世,享年七十 五岁,安葬于纽约州艾玛拉。
3) The Gilded Age (1873)
4)A Tramp Abroad (1880)
Another book of humor and travel observations in the vein of The Innocents Abroad and Roughing It.
5) The Prince And The Pauper (1882) 《王子与贫儿》 6) Life On The Mississippi (1883) 《密西西比河的生活》 7) A Connecticut Yankee In King Arthur’s Court (1889) 《在
EARLY LIFE EXPERIENCE
Born in a little town in Mississippi At 11, he lost his father At 13, he stopped schooling Tramp printer Steamboat pilot on the Mississippi Confederate guerrilla Prospector Reporter on the far western
frontier Traveler abroad
出生于密西西比河畔小城汉尼
拔的一个乡村贫穷律师家庭, 从小出外拜师学徒。当过排字 工人,密西西比河水手、南军 士兵,还经营过木材业、矿业 和出版业,晚年巡回演讲,但 有效的工作是当记者和写作幽 默文学。
A master of language
He used colloquial language, vernacular language, dialects
His last works shows his acute pessimism, despair, skepticism determinism.
Simple and plain diction, precise, direct.
Works
Twain’s greatest fame and his importance in American literature rest largely on his two best known novels,
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer 《汤姆·索亚历险记 》
The Ad《哈克费恩历险记 》
MARK TWAIN’S MASTERPIECES
OTHER WORKS BY MARK TWAIN
1) “The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County” (1865) 《加拉维加县有名 的跳蛙》
his first sketch
that brought
him fame and
success.
2) Innocents Abroad (1869) 《傻瓜出国记》
The book version of his travel sketches about Middle East, Europe, etc.
STYLE
His earlier works are light, humorous and optimistic.
His later works become darker and more obscure, showing his discontent and disappointment toward the social reality.
He used the artistic style of hyperbole on the basis of the western traditional humor and made his writing full of allegories that lay behind the humor.
short
words
concrete
sentence and structure
direct in effect simple, even ungrammatical
MARK TWAIN’S WRITING FEATURES
local colour
represented social life through portraits of local places which he knew best
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