Chapter 88 old and sober maugham

old and sober maugham Somerset Maugham, an old British contemporary writer, is a very successful writer. He writes novels and scripts. His plays Ben was successful not only on the stage, but also when adapted into films; many of his novels sold well. The road is also very big, and some of them have been turned into movies.He's roaming around, enjoying a well-to-do evening life live. Somerset Maugham once wrote several novels set in China, and another one describing the life of the painter Guo Geng in South China. The biographies of life on Taiping Island are all very successful, so I don’t want to go into details here.All I want to say is that from him

From some sporadic essays, it can be seen that although many of his works have become "bestsellers", they are A very successful writer, but still not "vulgar", maintaining a broad-minded and clear-headed attitude. This is rare.There are many writers, after becoming famous or not yet famous, they are often young Already very confused.An old and sober writer like George Bernard Shaw is really admirable.Look Maugham, who is eighty-five years old, is quite likely to become his successor in England.The difference is Maugham's attitude Speed ​​has always been modest and easy, unlike Bernard Shaw, who just gets hotter with age.

Maugham's short stories are also well written.He likes Chai Huofu very much, so his works are very European. Continental, without a strong British local flavor, it is quite suitable for us foreign readers to read.he also writes I have read some memoirs and essays, full of human touch and wit, which I find more enjoyable than his novels. happy things.He has a very amusing essay about the no-nonsense situation of his seventieth birthday.he opened Head recalled thusly: "On my thirtieth birthday, my brother said to me: Now you are no longer You are a teenager, you are already an adult, you must be a good person.When I

On my fortieth birthday, I said to myself: This is the end of youth up.On my fiftieth birthday, I said: Don't lie to yourself anymore, I've arrived In middle age, I should honestly accept this fact.On my sixtieth birthday, I am I said to myself: Now is the time to take care of my own affairs, because now Walking through the gates of old age, it's time for me to settle my accounts.so i decided Withdrew from stage life and wrote that 'summary' in which I looked back from life and What have I gained in literature and art, what have I done, and what have they brought me?

Some what satisfaction. ..." For the age of seventy, Maugham felt that this was the rest of his life, "at the age of seventy, you are no longer Then step into the door of old age.You're quite an old man." He felt as if his mood Like a "ready to go" passenger, everything is ready, as long as you are notified, you will be ready at any time leave.But in such a broad-minded mood, he passed the age of eighty and wrote several more books. Now (a 1959) was already eighty-five.