1, Cervantes
Cervantes, a famous Spanish writer in the 16th century. His masterpiece "Don Quixote" is popular in the world. It is known as a monumental work. Cervantes was born into a poor family of aristocrats, and he went out with his father to make a living from a young age.
At the age of 22, Cervantes enlisted in the army, and in a naval battle with Turkey, his left hand was crippled. He was captured by pirates and sold into slavery in Algeria. After being freed by his parents, he served as a quartermaster in the navy, and then was imprisoned for a wrongful conviction, leaving his family of seven to live in starvation and poverty.
He wrote Don Quixote, Numancia, A Collection of Stories for the Punishment of Evil, Galatea, Travels of Barnabas, Eight New Comedies and Eight New Farces Between the Scenes, and other influential works in such a difficult situation.
2, Helen Keller?
Helen Keller, a deaf-blind American author and educator, was born in the United States. Keller was one and a half years old when she lost her sight and hearing due to illness, which is unimaginable and unbearable pain for ordinary people. However, Helen did not yield to fate. In the teacher's education, under the help of her strong perseverance, she overcame the disability, learned to speak, with the finger "listening" and mastered five kinds of words.
At the age of 24, she graduated with honors from the prestigious Radcliffe College for Women at Harvard University. She devoted her life to working for the benefit of the world's blind and deaf, and was honored by the governments and people of many countries.
In 1959, the United Nations launched the Helen Keller Campaign.
In 1959, the United Nations launched the "Helen Keller" campaign. Her autobiography, The Story of My Life, has become a classic of English literature and has been translated into many languages and widely distributed.
3. Ernest Hemingway
The American writer Ernest Hemingway was a very enterprising hard man. He tried to eat earthworms, lizards, in the Mexican bullfighting ring brightly, broke into the primitive forests of Africa, the two world wars were on the battlefield.
In World War I, at the age of 19, he saw an Italian soldier wounded, so he braved Austrian artillery fire to go up to rescue him, and as a result, he himself was wounded in the leg, but he still carried the wounded man tenaciously forward. Suddenly, the shelling stopped, the searchlight is bright, Hemingway finally returned to the position. It turned out that his heroic behavior moved the Austrian general to order him to let him through.
Hemingway, as a writer, was ambitious to surpass Shakespeare, "kill" Turgenev, and beat Maupassant and Stendhal to the ground. When you make up your mind, you have to fight.
In 1949, his friend Faulkner was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature, Hemingway was not convinced, and hastily wrote a novel to surpass others, but failed. Stubborn Hemingway climbed up and did it again, and finally wrote the novel The Old Man and the Sea, which won the 1954 Nobel Prize for Literature.
4. Miller
Miller was a famous French writer in the 19th century. Born in a peasant family, he learned painting from someone when he was young and left his teacher because he was dissatisfied with his teacher's flashy art style. Later, he made a living by painting nudes in Paris. Gradually, he became tired of this kind of art, but he could not sell his paintings on other subjects, and therefore, he was once trapped in the abyss of poverty, anguish and despair.
To make ends meet, he had to leave Paris and live in the countryside. In the countryside, he still could not get rid of poverty, but the beautiful nature, simple peasants and farm life, stirred the painter's creative passion. He endured all the hardships and insisted on creating, producing many famous works, such as The Sower.
5, Balzac
August 21, 1850, in Balzac's funeral, Hugo due to the eulogy has this to say: "in the middle of great characters, Balzac is the greatest one; in the middle of excellent characters, Balzac is the most excellent one . ...It is lamentable! This strong, never ceasing to struggle philosopher, thinker, poet, gifted writer. Among us, he lived a stormy life, suffered all the battles and misfortunes that any great man of any age has suffered. Now he is gone. He is out of the strife and the pain."
Yes, Balzac, had a rough life. He lacked a mother's love at an early age. Family and mother, indifferent to him, he seems to be a superfluous person in the family. Balzac later recalled this life, had indignantly said: "I never knew what is called mother's love." "I experienced the most horrible childhood that has ever befallen a human being." When he grew up, he aspired to a career in puritanical literature.
To be a "king of the literary world." Beginning in the summer of 1819, he spent his days writing in an attic. The attic was a stone's throw away. His humble abode was hot in the summer and cold in the winter. He had no day, no night, no entertainment, and always kept writing. As a result, he was constantly cheated in his dealings with booksellers, so that he became heavily indebted. The debt amounted to 100,000 francs.
In order to avoid the debt he moved six times. He told a friend, "I often worry about a little bread, candles and paper. My creditors persecuted me like a rabbit. I often run around like a rabbit." Balzac, who wrote diligently throughout his life, often worked up to 18 hours straight.
In less than 20 years, he **** produced 91 novels. Widely influential in the world, but his life was spent in poverty and pain. He once summed himself up in one sentence, "A lifetime of labor spent in pain and poverty, often not understood."