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Galsworthy(高尔斯华绥人物简介)

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John Galsworthy约翰·高尔斯华绥Main ContentPersonal experienceRepresentative works& Writing characteristicsCharacter evaluationPersonal experienceJohn Galsworthy （1867-1933） born in a wealthy bourgeois family in Surrey Kingston hill, His father is a famous lawyer in London 。He once read law at Oxford University, and obtained lawyer qualification in 1890,but he has no interest to actively engage in legal work。 In after years。 He traveled around the world高尔斯华绥简介, partly in order to study the law of the sea, part of the reason is to receive his father's urging, escape from a pile of inappropriate love entanglement。

During the first world war, he is old, can't attend the service, but donated all his income to the war, and service in a hospital in France for nearly six months。Galsworthy is also a founding member of The Pen and served as the first President。In 1917, He refused jazz title awarded to him。In 1932, Galsworthy was awarded the Nobel Prize for literature because of his excellentartistic of description。The last thing he had to do is to donate the Nobel Prize to establish the Trust for PenOn January 31, 1933, he passed away at home in London Hampstead dc。

Anecdotes1895, Galsworthy returned to London, the relationship between he and Ada has made progress。 Ada and Yassa are on bad term, but she and Galsworthy was like peas and carrots。 In the Ada's encouragement, Galsworthy decided to engage in professional writing。 His father is a moralist with Victorian features, could not tolerate something like that happened。 So before his cousin died in 1904, the relationship between Ada and Galsworthy has been hidden。 In 1905,Ada and Galsworthy married, one year ago the day they married Ada divorced Yassa。

Representative works& Writing characteristicsAt the age of 30, Galsworthy published his first book, but it didn’t cause social attention until 1904, when The Island Pharisees was published。 The Island Pharisees is the first masterpiece that truly contains Galsworthy creative idea, and was his first time to use his real name to publish work。In 1906, Galsworthy complete novel The Man of Property, it is seen as a landmark in the development of his art。 The novel shows maturity and consummate craft *** anship。

It established his place in literature as a representative of bourgeois reali *** in the 20 th -century English novelnovelsThe Forsyte SagaThe idea of creating a series of novels portraying the history of English bourgeois life occurred to Galsworthy while he was writing his next novel, In Chancery 。 The project was carried out in The Forsyte Saga , his masterpiece。 It took Galsworthy 22 years(1906-1928)to accomplish this monumental work。 The Forsyte Saga gives a profound and true-to-life picture of the English bourgeois society during a period of 40 years, beginning from the eighties of the 19 th century up to th twenties of the 20 th century。

The most important workThe title of The Forsyte Saga is generally applied to the epic of the Forsyte family in two trilogies, each consisting of three novels and two interludes。 The sequence is as follows:The Forsyte Saga (the first trilogy):The Man of Property (1906)The Indian Summer of a Forsyte(Interlude,1997)In chancery (1920)Awakening (Interlude,1921)To Let (1921)A Modern Comedy(the second trilogy):The White Monkey(1924)Asilent Wooing(Interlude,1927)The Silver Spoon(1926)Passers-By (Interlude,1927)Swan Song(1928)Galsworthy also distinguishes himself as a playwright, having written 28 plays。

In his plays he dwells upon the burning social problems of his time。 His most important plays include The Sliver Box(1906)accusing the British society for its contrasting treatment of two men, the one rich the other poor, who are guilty of the same crime, and Strife(1909), depicting the conflict between labourand capital。playsRepresentative works& Writing characteristicsDespite the fact that reali *** of Galsworthy works really represents a modern tendencies,but they still think his direct narrative have been out of date。

“The self-righteous bigot”Character evaluationVirginia Woolf:“Too late高尔斯华绥简介, has not been approved in a timely manner”The New Republic:Few deny Galsworthy’s achievements, but there are a lot of people think that it’s better if the Nobel Prize for literature can awarded him in his heyday。We cannot control lifebut we can fight with itWe cannot control lifebut we can fight with itJohn GalsworthyThanks!