"Troubled Winter"
By John Steinbeck
Translated by Wu Junxie
Published by the Commercial Press in February 2022
Introduction:
The Winter Of Our Discontent is Steinbeck's last novel. The story is that after the baptism of college life and World War II, the young and intelligent Ethan returned to his hometown with enthusiasm, but the simple relationship between people in his original impression has become difficult to find with the pressure of survival competition, and Ethan can only cover up his inner bitterness with jokes and self-mockery. However, the expectations of his beloved wife and the complaints of his daughter finally made him betray his "good" self. He denounced his employer, who treated him like a relative, to the immigration authorities, to take possession of his employer's shop; he used schemes to defraud his childhood friend's estate; and he even subdued the cunning banker. Just when he got everything, a half-prostituted and half-witch woman who had originally encouraged him to seek private interests came to blackmail him, and the incident of his son cheating to get the National Composition Prize also happened, and Ethan finally woke up in the inner struggle of lust and conscience.
About the Author:
John Steinbeck (1902-1968), a famous American writer and Nobel Laureate in Literature, was born in California and graduated from Stanford University. In 1925, he worked as a reporter for The New York Times, and soon after, feeling disappointed and bored with his career as a journalist, he returned to California to devote himself to his work. In 1937, he published the novel Between Man and Mouse, and in 1939, he published the novel "Grapes of Wrath". He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1962. In early 1966, Steinbeck traveled to South Vietnam as a war correspondent for the New York newspaper Newsay. Steinbeck returned to the United States and continued to write at home In May 1968, his body began to collapse, and on December 21, 1968, he died of a heart attack. Representative works include "Between Man and Mouse", "Grapes of Wrath", "The Moon Is Down", "East of Eden", "Troubled Winter" and so on.