Last name: Twain
Name/names: Mark
Also known as: Samuel Langhorne Clemens
Born: 30 November 1835 (Florida settlement in Monroe, USA)
Died: 21 April 1910 (Redding, USA)
Category: Literature.
Twain Mark, right. Samuel Langhorne Clemens – ur. 1835, zm. 1910, American writer, He was a pilot of ships at Mississippi, golden seeker, He worked as a printer and journalist, He traveled a lot. A popular humorist drawing from pioneering folklore borderland, Realist and satirist writer about social and moral interests, He was a supporter of the ideals of American democracy and civilization expansion, and at the same time a critic “gilded age” amer. bourgeoisie (powieść The Gilded Age 1873, z Ch.D. Warner).
A specific epic image of the formation of the American national community are memories of Twain life on Mississippi (1883, wide. pol. 1967) i ich fabularne rozwinięcie w powieściach dla młodzieży Tomek Sawyer's adventures (1876, wide. pol. 1901) i Huck's adventures (1884, wide. pol. 1898), with a rich moral and psychological and educational layer. W fantastyczno-historycznych powieściach Prince and beggar (1881, wide. pol. 1899) i Jankes at the court of King Arthur (1889, wide. pol. 1936) mocked European knightly and feudal traditions; in late songs (np. Man, who demoralized Hadleyburg 1900, wide. pol. w Bajeczkach dla starych dzieci 1949) Pessimistic reflection on the moral side of human nature dominates; Autobiography (1924, wide. pol. 1993).