Mark? Brief introduction of Twain

Mark Twain, an American writer and speaker, whose real name is Samuel Langhorne Clemens. "Mark Twain" is his pen name, which was originally a term used by Mississippi sailors to indicate the water depth measured on the waterway. His representative works include the novel One Million Pounds, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, etc.

1835165438+1October 30th, Mark Twain was born in a poor lawyer's family in Florida, Missouri, USA. He ranks sixth among seven children in his family. His father is a local lawyer with a small income and a poor family. Little Mark Twain had to work when he was at school. When his father died at the age of eleven, he began to live an independent working life, first as an apprentice in a printing factory, as a newspaper delivery man and typesetter, and later as a sailor and helmsman on the Mississippi River.

185 1 year, Mark Twain became a compositor, contributed articles, and began to write articles for Hannibal Daily founded by his brother Olian. On May 1852, 1 published his first novel "Playboy Surprised by Settlers" in Boston's humorous weekly "Handbag".

1863 began to use the pseudonym "Mark Twain". 1864 I met humorist A Ward and novelist B Hart in San Francisco, and got their encouragement and help, which improved my writing level. 1865, he published a humorous story "The Famous Jumping Frog in Kara Velas County" in a magazine in new york, which made him famous all over the country. Since then, I have often written humorous articles for newspapers and periodicals.

1873 co-authored The Gilded Age with Richard Werner, which was his first novel. 187 1 year, Mark Twain moved to Hartford, Connecticut. He became a famous writer and humorous speaker. The next few years will be a bumper year for his creation.

1904, his wife died in Italy. Mark Twain entered the final stage of his career. In his early works, such as The Adventures of Harburg Finn, his pessimism about "human beings" (actually the bourgeoisie) became the main theme of some of his works. The novella The Man Who Corrupted Hadleyburg (1900) and the essay What's wrong with people? "(1906), the story" The Mysterious Visitor "(19 16) are all reflected. The most important work in his later years is an autobiography dictated by him and recorded by his secretary.

1910 April 2 1 Day Rimark Twain died of angina pectoris.

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Mark Twain's works have three characteristics:

First of all, on the basis of western humor tradition, he played an extremely exaggerated artistic imagination.

Second, works often take the first person "I" as the protagonist, and this "I" plays various comic characters like the protagonist in China's cross talk. Most of them are naive, honest, ignorant, simple-minded, and wishful thinking about everything, which often backfires. Mark Twain consciously played the leading role with innocent and honest people. The hero always harbors some ideal or some simple idea, but he runs into a wall everywhere in reality, which shows that his ideal is unrealistic and unworkable. The less he understands this, the more he shows the gap between ideal and reality.

Third, humor contains irony. In his autobiography, he summed up his experience in writing humorous stories, and said, "Humor for humor's sake cannot last. Humor is just a smell and tidbits. I always admonish others, which is why I can persist for 30 years. " "Thirty years" refers to the time from when he started writing to when he wrote his autobiography. His so-called "admonishing others" means that his novels contain serious creative goals of restraining evil and promoting good.

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