The first prose writer in the United States was Mark Twain. He was the founder of American critical realism literature. Mark Twain wrote a large number of works throughout his life, including novels, scripts, essays, poetry, etc. in all aspects.
Mark Twain (November 30, 1835 - April 21, 1910), formerly known as Samuel Langhorne Clemens, was an American writer, The orator, "Mark Twain" was his pen name, originally a term used by Mississippi River sailors to indicate the depth of water measured on the waterway.
When he was 12 years old, his father died, so he had to drop out of school and work as a factory worker. He worked as a Mississippi River pilot, miner and journalist. Gradually, I started writing some interesting novels by hand and started my writing career. His representative works include the novels "One Million Pounds", "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn", "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer", etc.
Mark Twain is the founder of American critical realism literature. Mark Twain wrote a large number of works throughout his life, covering novels, scripts, essays, poetry and other genres. In terms of content, his works criticize irrational phenomena or the ugliness of human nature, and express the strong sense of justice and concern for ordinary people of this writer who worked as a typesetter and sailor; in terms of style, experts And general readers agree that humor and irony are the characteristics of his writing. He experienced the development process of the United States from early capitalism to imperialism, and his thoughts and creations also showed a development stage from light ridicule to bitter irony to pessimism and world-weariness. In the early stage, he was famous for bitter irony, but in the later period, his language became more explicit and violent. .
In 2006, Mark Twain was ranked 16th among the 100 most influential people in the United States by the authoritative American magazine "The Atlantic Monthly".
Theme of the work:
Criticism of the hypocritical politics of the United States
Mark Twain pointedly exposed political parties when he wrote his travelogue "On the Mississippi" In line with the complicity of the news media, Mark Twain noted: "In those days, the pilot was the only unfettered and completely independent person of all the people in the world. The king was the unfree servant of the aristocratic society; Congress led the voters to cast The editors of newspapers are always tied to a certain political party; no preacher can speak freely and tell the truth if he does not take into account the opinions of his followers; the writer is just the slave of the reader, and the writer writes When I was working, I was frank and fearless, but later on, I had to lose more or less the edge of my work before it was printed.” It can be seen that Mark Twain saw through the authenticity of American political parties and elections, and criticized them unabashedly. "Running for Governor" is Mark Twain's comprehensive exposure and attack on the American social democratic political system. The style of the novel is humorous and witty. In a short space, it unearths the corruption and darkness of the American electoral system. It has extremely profound thoughts. It reveals the dark inside story of the so-called "democratic" electoral system in the United States and exposes the hypocrisy of the capitalist electoral system.