After 1953, I worked as a researcher in Peking University College of Literature. The multi-volume edition Guanzuibian is a textual research and interpretation of ancient Confucian classics in China, which is expounded and discriminated from the comparison of Chinese and western cultures and literature. He is currently the vice president of China Academy of Social Sciences.
Commemoration of Fortress Besieged
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God's dream is written on the edge of life (prose collection)
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O. Henry
(O Henry, 1862- 19 10)
About the author:
Formerly known as William Sydney Porter, he is one of the most famous short story writers in America. He was once praised by critics as the Laureate Prose Writer in Manhattan and the father of modern American short stories. He comes from a family of doctors in Green Sboro, North Carolina, USA.
His life is full of legends. He worked as a pharmacy apprentice, cowherd, accountant, land bureau clerk, journalist and bank teller. When I was a bank teller, I left home and went into exile in Honduras in Central America in order to escape the trial. Later, he was arrested for visiting his dying wife at home.
Prison, working as a pharmacist in the prison infirmary. When he worked in a bank, he had a writing experience. After working as a pharmacist in the prison infirmary, he began to write seriously. 190 1 After his early release, he moved to new york to specialize in writing.
O Henry is good at describing American society, especially the life of new york people. His works are novel in conception, humorous in language and often unexpected in ending. It is also called "Humorous Encyclopedia of American Life" because it describes many characters and is full of interest in life. His representative works include the collection of novels "Cabbage and the King", "Four Million" and "The Road to Destiny". Some of his famous works, such as Sacrifice of Love, Police and Hymns, Furnished Rooms for Rent, Maggie's Gift and The Last Rattan Leaf, made him famous all over the world.
Maupassant
( 1850~ 1893)
About the author:
65438+An outstanding French critical realist writer in the second half of the 9th century. He wrote six novels and more than 356 short stories in his life. His literary achievements are the most prominent in short stories, and he is known as the "king of short stories", which has a great influence on later generations.
Mo Bosang was born in a declining aristocratic family. His mother was addicted to literature and art. Influenced by teacher and poet Louis Buner, she began to write in various genres. After that, she practiced writing under Flaubert's personal guidance and participated in the activities of a group of naturalistic writers headed by Zola. He wrote the suicide ball.
(1880) was selected into the collection of short stories in Meitang Evening News, and jumped into the French literary world. The peak of his creation was in the 1980s.
During 10, he wrote six novels: Life (1883), Good Friends (1885), Hot Springs (1886) and Pierre and John (1887). These works exposed the dark inside story of the Third Republic: cabinet officials deceived the parliament and the people from the interests of financial giants and launched an imperialist war to plunder the African colony Morocco; Attacked the corruption, greed, deception and shamelessness of the ruling clique. Mo Bosang also wrote more than 350 short stories, exposing the upper rulers and their poisonous social atmosphere, and at the same time expressing deep sympathy for the insulted and damaged little people.
The themes of short stories can be roughly summarized into three aspects: first, satirizing vanity and money worship, such as Necklace and My Uncle Yule; The second is to describe the miserable experience of working people and praise their integrity, simplicity and generosity, such as return; The third is to describe the Franco-Prussian War and reflect the patriotic feelings of the French people, such as boule de suif.
The ingenious layout structure of Mo Bosang's short stories. The choice of typical details, lyrical narrative techniques and fluent and natural writing style all provided models for later writers.