Bøger af Sherwood Anderson

"Winesburg, Ohio", Sherwood Anderson's masterpiece, is a set of interconnected short stories set in a small Ohio town. This edition also contains "The Triumph of the Egg: A Book of Impressions from American Life in Tales and Poems". Anderson has influenced generations of American writers from Ernest Hemingway, William Faulkner and John Steinbeck to John Updike and Joyce Carol Oates.

Sherwood Anderson's short stories, beautifully crafted and evocative of time and place, were hugely influential in their day. The title story in this collection, 'Death in the Woods', is widely regarded as a masterpiece - the narrator looks back at an incident in his childhood where an old woman dies in the cold - in life she was destined to feed those around her, after her death, he feeds from her too.

No sooner did Winesburg, Ohio make its appearance than a number of critical labels were fixed on it: the revolt against the village, the espousal of sexual freedom, the deepening of American realism. Such tags may once have had their point, but by now they seem dated and stale. The revolt against the village (about which Anderson was always ambivalent) has faded into history. The espousal of sexual freedom would soon be exceeded in boldness by other writers. And as for the effort to place Winesburg, Ohio in a tradition of American realism, that now seems dubious. Only rarely is the object of Anderson's stories social verisimilitude, or the "photographing" of familiar appearances, in the sense, say, that one might use to describe a novel by Theodore Dreiser or Sinclair Lewis. Only occasionally, and then with a very light touch, does Anderson try to fill out the social arrangements of his imaginary town -- although the fact that his stories are set in a mid-American place like Winesburg does constitute an important formative condition.Set in the fictional town of Winesburg, Ohio, not to be confused with the actual Winesburg, which is based loosely on the author's childhood memories of Clyde, Ohio.

The book is set in the fictional town of Winesburg, Ohio (not to be confused with the actual Winesburg), which is based loosely on the author's childhood memories of Clyde, Ohio. No sooner did _Winesburg, Ohio_ make its appearance than a number of critical labels were fixed on it: the revolt against the village, the espousal of sexual freedom, the deepening of American realism. Such tags may once have had their point, but by now they seem dated and stale. The revolt against the village (about which Anderson was always ambivalent) has faded into history. The espousal of sexual freedom would soon be exceeded in boldness by other writers. And as for the effort to place _Winesburg, Ohio_ in a tradition of American realism, that now seems dubious. Only rarely is the object of Anderson's stories social verisimilitude, or the "photographing" of familiar appearances, in the sense, say, that one might use to describe a novel by Theodore Dreiser or Sinclair Lewis. Only occasionally, and then with a very light touch, does Anderson try to fill out the social arrangements of his imaginary town -- although the fact that his stories are set in a mid-American place like Winesburg does constitute an important formative condition.

Sherwood Anderson (1876-1941) was an American novelist and short story writer, best known for the short story sequence Winesburg, Ohio. Poor White is the story of an inventor who rises from poverty on the bank of the Mississippi River, showing the influence of industrialism on the rural heartland.

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Famous for his modernist fiction, Ohio native Sherwood Anderson has long been recognized exclusively as a prose writer despite his prolific published output of poetry between 1915 and 1939. This work underscores Anderson's place in American literature - prose and poetry. It is suitable for modernist scholars, Anderson specialists, and poets.

WITH A NEW INTRODUCTION BY SARA WHEELER'He was the father of my generation of American writers and the tradition of American writing' William FaulknerThis timeless cycle of short stories lays bare the life of a small town in the American Midwest.

A landmark work of American naturalism and a priceless chronicle of rural life, Winesburg, Ohio has been compared to the writings of Turgenev, Chekhov, Dreiser and Twain, and hugely influenced authors such as Steinbeck, Hemingway and Faulkner.

Sherwood Anderson's first and most autobiographical novel and the only one set in Illinois, Windy McPherson's Son received uniformly high praise from literary critics when it was first published. It tells the story of an Iowa newsboy who fights his way to fortune in Chicago, then questions the meaning of his success. It was republished in 1922 with a different ending, which appears as an appendix in this edition.

"Death in the Woods is a signal junction in Anderson's career and is to my mind one of the finest stories in our language." -Jim Harrison

Winesburg, Ohio (1919) is Sherwood Anderson's masterpiece, a cycle of short stories concerning life in a small Ohio town at the end of the 19th century. At the centre is George Willard, a young reporter who becomes the confidant of the town's solitary figures. The book has influenced such major American writers as Hemingway, Faulkner, and Updike. This new edition corrects errors in earlier editions and takes into account major criticism and textualscholarship of the last several decades.

Collects stories that capture the emotional undercurrents hidden beneath ordinary events.

I alle Sherwood Andersons bøger er hovedtemaet de menneskelige drifter og det civiliserede menneskes længsel efter at genfinde en sand forståelse med naturen. I denne roman skildrer Anderson sin opfattelse af de sortes kontakt til det naturlige, uhæmmede liv, som står i stærk kontrast til, hvad han betragter som sine hvide "artsfællers" degeneration. Anderson gør sig her til en stærk talsmand for menneskets stræben efter en ren og ægte frigørelse fra al hæmmende samfundskonvention og puritanisme. En mesterlig roman, som om noget formidler forfatterens syn på det amerikanske samfund i hans samtid. Romanen er inspireret af Andersons eget ophold i New Orleans i 1920’erne. Sherwood Anderson (1876-1941), amerikansk forfatter. Indvarslede og blev en af de største inspiratorer til de forfattere, der blev kaldt "The Lost Generation": William Faulkner, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway, T.S. Eliot, John Steinbeck og John Dos Passos. Skrev romaner, noveller og endda en lyriksamling – og blev kendt for sin subjektive stil og værker med selvbiografisk indhold. Hans bøger blev solgt i pæne oplag, men Mørk latter (1925) var den eneste bog, han selv skulle opleve blive en bestseller. Anderson voksede op i en fattig arbejderfamilie i Ohio, gik ud af skolen som 14-årig og ernærede sig af løse jobs. I 1900 vendte han tilbage til skolebænken, fik herefter arbejde som tekstforfatter i Chicago. Blev gift med en velhavende kvinde, stiftede familie og indledte en karriere som fabriksejer. Fik i 1912 et mentalt sammenbrud, der for altid skulle ændre hans liv. Han forsvandt sporløst og var forsvundet i fire dage, før man fandt ham i en kornmark. Da han kom sig, forlod han sin familie for at leve som forfatter. Han udgav sin første roman i 1916 og blev hurtigt en anerkendt og respekteret forfatter.