内容简介
"American writing, before and after Dreiser's time, differed
almost as much as biology before and after Darwin," said H. L.
Mencken. Sister Carrie, Dreiser's great first novel, transformed
the conventional "fallen woman" story into a bold and truly
innovative piece of fiction when it appeared in 1900. Na?ve young
Caroline Meeber, a small-town girl seduced by the lure of the
modern city, becomes the mistress of a traveling salesman and then
of a saloon manager, who elopes with her to New York. Both its
subject matter and Dreiser's unsparing, nonjudgmental approach made
Sister Carrie a controversial book in its time, and the work
retains the power to shock readers today.
作者简介
Theodore Dreiser (born Aug. 27, 1871, Terre Haute, Ind.,
U.S.-died Dec. 28, 1945, Hollywood, Calif.) U.S. novelist. Born to
poor German immigrant parents, Dreiser left home at age 15 for
Chicago. He worked as a journalist, and in 1894 he moved to New
York, where he had a successful career as a magazine editor and
publisher. His first novel, Sister Carrie (1900), about a young
kept woman who goes unpunished for her transgressions, was
denounced as scandalous. His subsequent novels would confirm his
reputation as the outstanding American practitioner of naturalism.
After the success of Jennie Gerhardt (1911), he began writing
full-time, producing a trilogy consisting of The Financier (1912),
The Titan (1914), and The Stoic (published 1947), which was
followed by The Genius (1915) and its sequel, The Bulwark
(published 1946). An American Tragedy (1925), based on a murder
trial and itself the basis for the 1931 film by that name and for a
1951 film entitled A Place in the Sun, made him a hero among social
reformers.