Complete works of Katherine Ann Porter's short stories and novellas

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◆ First complete translation and introduction of Pulitzer Prize&National Book Award winning works

◆ The turbulent soul and wandering spirit lead a traditional and modern game with literature

◆ Katherine Ann Porter -- the female flag bearer of the 20th century American Southern Renaissance, as well as William Faulkner and other representative writers of the American South

◆ "The maker of dark fables"&"the writer among writers", reflecting the truth of life with the truth of art

◆ The first class artists in the eyes of Yudora Welty, Edmund Wilson, Robert Penn Warren and others

◆ Senior translators Wang Jiaxiang, Lu Jin, Li Wenjun and others translated by relay, and wrote ten thousand words of long explanations to lead readers to the path of Porter's creation

◆ Hardbound double envelop, elegant and lively binding; The text is cut along the grain, and can be easily spread 180 degrees

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As one of the representative figures of American southern literature in the 20th century, Porter is known as "the first class artist" and "the writer among writers". She has won the Guggenheim Award twice, the O. Henry Memorial Award in 1962, and the Gold Medal of the National Association of Literature and Arts in 1967.

Published in 1965, this book contains all 26 novellas and short stories written by Porter in her life. It is the epitome of this outstanding writer and stylist's literary achievements, and it won her the 1966 Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award.

Porter has been practicing the Victorian values and the resistance of modernism all his life. She was disciplined by the tradition, and constantly tried to deviate from the tradition, and practiced a game between tradition and modernity. Most of her writing materials come from life. She ran away for love, rebelled, and went to Mexico to participate in the revolution... She used words as a weapon to break the fog and shackles traditionally imposed on women, and her tragic insight into human destiny and history. Her works transcended the boundaries of race, class, gender, culture, and region.

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In terms of the plot and style of these novels, they can be divided into two categories: the first category is often derived from the author's own experience, such as Circus, Grave, Old Man, Grey Horse, Grey Rider, Steal, Manor, etc. The origin and background of Miranda (sometimes simply using the first person "I"), the common hero of the novel, are strikingly similar to the author: the process of a stubborn southern girl growing up into a stubborn writer against customs. Her bitter and persistent memory of her childhood, her poor career as a journalist, her desperate love that was strangled by the disease, and her thoughts that were alien to anarchism after she was involved in left-wing political movements in foreign countries will all come to readers clearly. Among them, Grey Horse, Grey Rider is the most famous. In the limited space, the work not only depicts Heduan's moving love, but also profoundly reveals the situation and attitude of people under the threat of disease, war and death, which is quite powerful.

The second kind of works are mostly based on what the author has seen and heard, such as "Rope", "He", "Abandoned Granny Weatherall" and "Noon Wine", and there are also a few stories with the city as the background, such as "One Day's Work" and "Leaning Tower". Although these novels have no ups and downs of the plot, they have a huge internal tension and a deep sense of social mission, and their concern for reality and anxiety are deeply moving.

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Porter tells those stories about fear and humiliation in an invisible style like music...... Her works have been meticulously crafted, without gorgeous redundancy, narcissism or any element of ostentation.

——Eudora Welty

Porter is definitely a first-class artist.

——Edmund Wilson

As a writer of short stories and novellas, Porter must be insurmountable in the United States of this century - even in any country at any time... Her works are a monument that contains great splendor, even genius, and are enduring.

——Robert Penn Warren

From the very beginning of his writing, Porter has marked his own works with a distinctive brand, and his unique writing style has also left a deep impression on other writers. Her writing is clear and fluent, almost at one go.

——Elizabeth Hardwick