二十世纪的美国文学有几位先师,其中有马克·吐温,舍伍德·安德森,还有斯蒂文·克雷恩。我今天讲一下斯蒂文·克雷恩。克雷恩只活了二十九岁,是个短命的作家,他和我国现代文学史上一个很了不起的作家柔石寿数一样,二十九岁。以我今天看,二十九岁是一个非常年轻的岁数。一般来说,一个作家在三十岁以前通常还没写出他最好最重要的作品来,或者是刚刚写出这样的作品。但是克雷恩在二十九岁的时候就已经完成他作为一个 There are several pioneers of American literature in the twentieth century, including Mark Twain, Sherwood Anderson, and Steven Crane. I talk about Steven Crane today. Clyne, who lived only 29 years as a short-lived author, was 29 years old with Roushu, a great writer in the history of modern Chinese literature. As I see today, 29 is a very young age. In general, a writer usually has not yet written his best and most important works before the age of 30, or has just written such a work. But Crane finished him as a man at the age of twenty-nine