〈영어로 읽는 고전 _ 시어도어 드라이저의 자서전〉
A Book About Myself는 미국 작가 시어도어 드라이저(Theodore Dreiser)의 자서전이다. 1922년에 처음 출판된 이 책은 인디애나에서의 어린 시절부터 성공적인 소설가로서의 경력까지 드라이저의 삶을 자세히 설명하고 있다. 드라이저는 미국 생활의 가혹한 현실을 묘사한 자연주의 소설로 유명하다. 그의 가장 유명한 작품으로는 캐리 자매(Sister Carrie), 제니 게르하트(Jennie Gerhardt), 미국의 비극(An American Tragedy) 등이 있다.
〈A classic read in English_ A Book About Myself by Theodore Dreiser 〉
A Book About Myself is an autobiography of American writer Theodore Dreiser. First published in 1922, it details Dreiser's life from his childhood in Indiana to his career as a successful novelist. Dreiser is known for his naturalist novels, which depict the harsh realities of American life. Some of his most famous works include Sister Carrie, Jennie Gerhardt, and An American Tragedy.
Summary
During the year 1890 I had been formulating my first dim notion as to what it was I wanted to do in life. For two years and more I had been reading Eugene Field’s “Sharps and Flats,” a column he wrote daily for the Chicago Daily News, and through this, the various phases of life which he suggested in a humorous though at times romantic way, I was beginning to suspect, vaguely at first, that I wanted to write, possibly something like that. Nothing else that I had so far read?novels, plays, poems, histories?gave me quite the same feeling for constructive thought as did the matter of his daily notes, poems, and aphorisms, which were of Chicago principally, whereas nearly all others dealt with foreign scenes and people.
