Katherine Anne Porter: Pale Horse, Wapakati Wakale

Yambani Phunziro Lanu la Fiction ya Katherine Anne Porter ya Autobiographical Fiction

Katherine Anne Porter ( 1890 - 1980), yemwe analemba ku America, amadziwika bwino chifukwa cha ntchito yake monga wolemba nkhani. Anakulira ku Louisiana ndi Texas ndipo anakwatiwa ndi zaka 16. Mu 1915, chifukwa cha chibwenzi chake ndi mwamuna wake, iye adathetsa banja lake, koma chaka chomwecho adapezanso kuti ali ndi chifuwa chachikulu cha TB (potsirizira pake anawona kuti akudwala matendawa) mumuike iye ku sanatorium. Kumeneko iye adasankha kukhala wolemba.

Mu 1918, atatha kulembera nkhani zosiyanasiyana, adamwalira pafupifupi ku Denver, Colorado chifukwa cha mliri wa mliri wa 1918. Pamene adachoka kuchipatala, adali wofooka komanso wamaliseche, ndipo tsitsi lake litamaliza kubwerera, lidayera. Tsitsi lake linali loti likhalebe mtundu umenewu kwa moyo wake wonse, ndipo zochitika zake zowopsya zikuwonetsedwa mu umodzi mwa matupi ake otchuka kwambiri, "triale Horse, Pale Rider".

Mu 1919, Porter anasamukira ku Greenwich Village, kumupanga kukhala wamoyo komanso wolemba mabuku a ana . Posakhalitsa ananyamuka kukagwira ntchito ku Mexico City kumene adalowa nawo gulu lamanzere, koma adabwereranso ku Chikatolika atatha kukhumudwa.

Porter anapitiriza kukwatira ndi kusudzulana amuna ena atatu. Iye analibe ana aliwonse. Anapitiriza kulemba ndi kufalitsa, potsiriza kukhala membala wa National Institute of Arts ndi Letters mu 1943, ndi wolemba-wokhala kumakoluni ambiri ndi mayunivesite.

Mu 1966 Porter anapambana Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for The Collected Stories, ndipo mu 1967 anapambana mphoto ya Medal Gold kwa Fiction kuchokera ku American Academy of Arts ndi Letters. Anasankhidwa katatu kuti apereke mphoto ya Nobel mu Literature.

Analimbikitsa Kuwerenga ndi Katherine Anne Porter

Choyamba, onetsetsani kuti muwerenge zowerengeka monga "Maluwa Yudasi," "Tchuthi," "María Concepción," ndi "The Jilting of Granny Weatherall."

Kenaka werengani Pale Horse, Pale Rider, nyimbo zachidule zitatu zomwe zimakhudza kwambiri mizu ya Porter ya Texas. Wolemba mbiri yake Joan Givner akuti Noon Wine ndi chithunzi cholondola kwambiri cha banja la Porter pantchito yake. Chimodzimodzinso, khalidwe la Miranda, m'mabuku awiri a novellas, amanenedwa kuti ndi khalidwe lake lodziwika bwino, ngakhale kuti ubwana wolemera womwe ukuwonetsedwa mu Old Morality umapangidwa kwathunthu. (Onani chithunzi cha Katherine Anne Porter pazinthu zambiri pa moyo wake ndi chizoloŵezi chake chodzikonda-nthano.)

Pambuyo powerenga ntchito yake, fufuzani mu nkhani ya Joan Givner, Katherine Anne Porter: A Life. Kuchokera mmaganizo a wolemba, ndiwothandiza kuona momwe ntchito ya Porter inasinthira pa moyo wake: ndi zochitika ziti zomwe zinamupangitsa kugwira ntchito, momwe chiwonetserocho chinadziwonetsera mwachabechabe, ndi zomwe zomwe analembazo zinali. Zimalimbikitsa, mwachitsanzo, kudziwa kuti Porter nthawi zambiri amaika nkhani ndi novellas pambali kwa zaka zambiri asanabwererenso kukawongolera.

Kuti mudziwe umunthu wa Porter, ngati si nkhani yeniyeni ya moyo wake, werengani kuyankhulana kwa Paris Review.