Sunday 7 January 2018

Mark Twain-Samuel L. Clemens 1835-1910

Mark Twain (Samuel L. Clemens) is one of the most famous pen names in the history of literature. 

SAMUEL L. CLEMENS-MARK TWAIN 1835-1910

Mark Twain means “safe water” and it is a steamboat call, an art he mastered because Mark Twain moved to the South to find a fortune in South America, yet he worked instead as the riverboat pilot of the Mississippi River covering the route between New Orleans and St Louis, but his passion ended when the Civil War started. 


SAMUEL L. CLEMENS-MARK TWAIN 1835-1910
After that, he wrote for different newspapers in Nevada or California for instance.

Mark Twain-Samuel L. Clemens
Mark Twain

SAMUEL L. CLEMENS-MARK TWAIN 1835-1910
Frontier humour or the humour of the Southwest was one of the writing techniques Samuel L. Clemens mastered, something that was created in contrast to the urban humour of the big cities. 

SAMUEL L. CLEMENS-MARK TWAIN 1835-1910

Mark Twain was a major satirist and exponent of America literary realism but there are other features of his personality that are genuine, he tried to create a distinct American language based on colloquial speech patterns of uneducated people so that highlight the American way of talking instead of following traditional British patterns.



SAMUEL L. CLEMENS-MARK TWAIN 1835-1910
Famous for his extraordinary sense of humour, the last decades of his existence were utterly grim because of business ventures that were failures and ended wrong. Consequently, he embraced pessimism and his mood and character changed in such a way that it destroyed the previous legend of funny satirist Mark Twain.

SAMUEL L. CLEMENS-MARK TWAIN 1835-1910
His most 3 important pieces of work are “The Adventures of Tom Sawyer” “A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur´s Court” and “Adventures of Huckleberry Finn”. The problem with his most famous book “Adventures of Huckleberry Finn” is that the end is weak according to many critics. 

SAMUEL L. CLEMENS-MARK TWAIN 1835-1910

Similarly, the society of his epoch was so dissimilar to the current one that his pieces of writing are deemed racist in some parts of America nowadays, albeit for other pundits, he is a complete literary genius. 


Indeed, he is one of the most important writers in American literature.