GOOGLE 翻譯錯誤 Hardy will be the souls who tour this air-conditioned edifice all the way through and glimpse the exit sign.

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非小說類

馬克吐溫的新傳記並沒有太多關於他偉大的內容

羅恩·切爾諾 (Ron Chernow) 追溯了一位深刻、難以預測且風趣幽默的作家的一生

馬克吐溫站在一棟有木質牆板的兩層樓房前的照片。

1902 年，馬克吐溫在密蘇裡州漢尼拔的童年故居。圖片來源：馬克吐溫論文及項目，加州大學柏克萊分校班克羅夫特圖書館

德懷特·加納

2025年5月13日

《馬克吐溫》，羅恩切爾諾著

羅恩·切爾諾 (Ron Chernow) 的新馬克·吐溫傳記篇幅龐大、平淡無奇、遙不可及——它像一座豪宅一樣籠罩著吐溫的職業生涯。切爾諾曾寫過金融巨頭、戰爭英雄和開國元勳的傳記，但他幾乎完全懷念這位被威廉·福克納稱為「美國文學之父」的人。他對馬克吐溫藝術中更深層、最不馴化的領域，以及他那個時代的文學背景幾乎沒有表現出任何感情。他的書是一場耐力測試，它忽略了那些塑造了馬克吐溫並讓他成為當時最清醒、最深刻、最難以預測、最有趣的美國人的因素。

Hardy will be the souls who tour this air-conditioned edifice all the way through and glimpse the exit sign.

哈代*將成為參觀這座空調大廈並瞥見出口標誌的靈魂。

*翻譯錯誤：  HARDY 查

hardy

/ˈhɑːdi/

adjective

1. capable of enduring difficult conditions; robust.

   "a hardy breed of cattle"

Nonfiction

A New Biography of Mark Twain Doesn’t Have Much of What Made Him Great

Ron Chernow traces the life of a profound, unpredictable and irascibly witty writer.

Mark Twain in 1902, visiting his childhood home in Hannibal, Mo.Credit...Mark Twain Papers and Project, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley

By Dwight Garner

May 13, 2025

MARK TWAIN, by Ron Chernow

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Ron Chernow’s new biography of Mark Twain is enormous, bland and remote — it squats over Twain’s career like a McMansion. Chernow, who has previously written lives of financial titans, war heroes and founding fathers, misses the man William Faulkner called “the father of American literature” almost entirely. He demonstrates little feeling for the deeper and least domesticated regions of Twain’s art, or for the literary context of his era. His book is an endurance test, one that skimps on the things that formed Twain and made him the most lucid, profound, unpredictable and irascibly witty American of his time. Hardy will be the souls who tour this air-conditioned edifice all the way through and glimpse