1 gen 1835 anni - 1835 Mark Twain

Descrizione:

I. BIO
-Samuel, Florida
-12 father died, left school
-sailor in Mississippi
-1861 civil war
-travel: The Innocents Abroad
-1876 Tom Sawyer.
-The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
-disasters, death

II. WORKS
-made fun of novel
-sceptical view of Europe
-Humorism (mix, portrait, melancholy)

III. THEMES
-slavery
-West
-river: Tom S., The A. of Huckleberry Finn, Life on the Mississippi

IV. CRITIC
-mechanical humour

V. SUCCESS
-child
-characters w/ humanity
-spontaneous

FATHER OF AMERICAN LITERATURE

Aggiunto al nastro di tempo:

Data: