Based on a series of letters Mark Twain wrote from Europe to newspapers in San Francisco and New York as a roving correspondent, The Innocents Abroad (1869) is a burlesque of the sentimental travel books popular in the mid-nineteenth century. Twain's fresh and humorous perspective on hallowed European landmarks lacked reverence for the past-the ancient statues of sa...
Based on a series of letters Mark Twain wrote from Europe to newspapers in San Francisco and New York as a roving correspondent, The Innocents Abroad (1869) is a burlesque of the sentimental travel books popular in the mid-nineteenth century. Twain's fresh and humorous perspective on hallowed European landmarks lacked reverence for the past-the ancient statues of saints on the Cathedral of Notre Dame are "battered and broken-nosed old fellows" and tour guides "interrupt every dream, every pleasant train of thought, with their tiresome cackling." Equally irreverent about American manners (including his own) as he is about European attitudes, Twain ultimately concludes that, for better or worse, "human nature is very much the same all over the world."
At certain periods it becomes the dearest ambition of a man to keep a faithful record of his performances in a book; and he dashes at this work with an enthusiasm that imposes on him the notion that keeping a journal is the veriest pastime in the world, and the pleasantest. But if he only lives twenty-one days, he will find out that only those rare natures that are made up of pluck, endurance, devotion to duty for duty's sake, and invincible determination may hope to venture upon so tremendous an enterprise as the keeping of a journal and not sustain a shameful defeat. (查看原文)
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0 有用 佑扯 2022-03-20 23:08:33
印象比较深的是他这一路从摩洛哥到欧洲大陆又到土耳其巴勒斯坦和叙利亚，看名画看到审美疲劳，在伊斯坦布尔看到满城被照顾的很好的野狗，又一路被阿拉伯人要小费。有些古今的连接让人直呼巧妙。马克吐温的幽默感在书里充分展现，包括黑了一波写游记抄参考书写出来一摸一样的。现代作家很少有他这样的幽默感
0 有用 皮蛋瘦肉粥 2021-10-11 00:47:48
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