18. The American literature and E. Hemingway
18. The American literature and E. Hemingway
Numerals (číslovky základní a řadové, vyjadřování času, datum, telefon)
Beginning of the American literature
Lost generation – E. Hemingway
Beat generation – J. Kerouack, A. Ginsberg
Contemporary writers
Read and translate the text one of the most famous recent American authors:
John Irving
John Irving was born in New Hampshire. He studied at universities in America and Europe and published his first novel SETTING FREE THE BEARS, at the age of twenty-six. THE WORLD ACCORDING TO GARP, published in 1978 to phenomenal acclaim, firmly established him as one of the most inventive and talented novelists in America.
During the 1980s John Irving wrote a series of absorbing and celebrated books: THE HOTEL NEW HAMPSHIRE, THE CIDER HOUSE RULES and A PRAYER FOR OWEN MEANY. In these novels his originality and striking vision came brilliantly to the fore, along with his trademark subjects — as wide-ranging as feminism, religion, wrestling, sex and New England life.
More recent novels include the complex bestseller A SON OF THE CIRCUS, the dark and funny novel A WIDOW FOR ONE YEAR and THE FOURTH HAND, a black comedy that was another popular success.
Several of John Irving’s novels have been made into films, and in 2000 he was awarded an Oscar for the screenplay for THE CIDER HOUSE RULES. He described the difficult, decade-long journey from page to screen in MY MOVIE BUSINESS. He is also the author of TRYING TO SAVE PIGGY SNEED and THE IMAGINARY GIRLFRIEND, memoirs of writing and wrestling.
In 1992, John Irving was inducted into the National Wrestling Hall of Fame in Stillwater, Oklahoma. In 2001, he was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Letters. He lives in Vermont and Toronto. UNTIL I FIND YOU is John Irving’s eleventh novel.
Numerals
Can you tell us:
when were you born?
your phone number?
what’s the date today?
what’s the time now?
Read the dates:
1/4/02, 15/6/77, 25/2/02
