2015考研英语阅读逆世唯心的巾帼_大学英语阅读

2015考研英语阅读逆世唯心的巾帼

　　Susan Hertog s biography, an accomplished synthesis of these two lives and theremarkable parallels between them, is also a history of the 20th century, a study of femaleemancipation and literary culture, and an acute analysis of dysfunctional family life.

　　这部由Susan Hertog所著的传记将两位女性的生涯与两人间惊人的相似之处完美地结合起来。它也是一部20世纪的史著，更是一份女性解放运动的研究报告和文学作品，同时亦敏锐地剖析了那个年代的人们真实的家庭生活。

　　The most striking similarity between Thompson and West is their seemingly innateself-belief and fearlessness. On her 27th birthday in 1920 the American-born Thompsonsailed for England. With no contacts but with portfolio in hand, her goal was to gaincredentials as a freelance reporter and make her way across Europe to witness theaftermath of the revolution in Russia. By 1927 she was living in Berlin as the first femalehead of a news bureau in Europe. West, the daughter of an Anglo-Irish journalist whoabandoned the family when she was eight, was a reviewer and essayist by the time she was19, when regardless of reputation she published cutting critiques of established writerssuch as Arnold Bennett and George Bernard Shaw. West wrote consistently until her deathat 90 in 1983, and was in the enviable position of having Harold Ross, the editor of the NewYorker, write to her, pleading: Please write any story you want for us, fact or fiction. In1941 West published her best-known book, Black Lamb and Grey Falcon, a history of theBalkans and a meditation on the rise of Nazism.