一個時代可以創造天才，一群天才也能造就一個時代。

1922年，喬伊斯 ( James Joyce ) 的 Ulysses 出版，這部作品捨棄文學上的傳統，使文字以嶄新的形式呈現在世人的眼前。此時吳爾芙 ( Virginia Woolf ) 、T．S．艾略特 ( T. S. Eliot )、E．M．福斯特 ( E. M. Forster )、D．H．勞倫斯 ( D. H. Lawrence) 正各自面臨寫作上的困境，而他們之後也將創作出永恆的經典作品：Mrs. Dalloway、The Wasteland、A Passage to India、Kangaroo，乘著這波現代主義的浪潮襲捲文學界。

作者 Bill Goldstein 透過引述當時的書信、著作重建四位傳奇作家的1922年，帶領我們經歷偉大作品誕生的過程。

A revelatory narrative of the intersecting lives and works of revered authors Virginia Woolf, T. S. Eliot, E. M. Forster and D. H. Lawrence during 1922, the birth year of modernism

The World Broke in Two tells the fascinating story of the intellectual and personal journeys four legendary writers, Virginia Woolf, T. S. Eliot, E. M. Forster, and D. H. Lawrence, make over the course of one pivotal year. As 1922 begins, all four are literally at a loss for words, confronting an uncertain creative future despite success in the past. The literary ground is shifting, as Ulysses is published in February and Proust's In Search of Lost Time begins to be published in England in the autumn. Yet, dismal as their prospects seemed in January, by the end of the year Woolf has started Mrs. Dalloway, Forster has, for the first time in nearly a decade, returned to work on the novel that will become A Passage to India, Lawrence has written Kangaroo, his unjustly neglected and most autobiographical novel, and Eliot has finished--and published to acclaim--"The Waste Land."

As Willa Cather put it, "The world broke in two in 1922 or thereabouts," and what these writers were struggling with that year was in fact the invention of modernism. Based on original research, Bill Goldstein's The World Broke in Two captures both the literary breakthroughs and the intense personal dramas of these beloved writers as they strive for greatness.

ISBN:9781250182500

Mrs. Dalloway 《達洛威夫人》Virginia Woolf 吳爾芙

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A Passage to India《印度之旅》E. M. Forster

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