福特·马多克斯·福特
福特·麦多克斯·福特
  福特·马多克斯·福特（Ford Madox Ford，1873–1939年），英国小说家、评论家、编辑。代表作《好兵》（The Good Soldier）（1915年）情节曲折，讲述了两对夫妇的情感关系。他的一战题材系列小说也很受欢迎，如《有些不》（Some Do Not）（1924年）、《不要再行进》（No More Parades）（1925年）、《男人能挺住》（A Man Could Stand Up）（1926年）和《最后的哨位》（The Last Post）（1928年）。1950年，出版了这四部小说的合集《行进的目的》（Parade's End福特中国）。他与约瑟夫·康拉德合写了小说《继承人》（The Inheritors）（1901年）、《浪漫》（Romance）（1903年）和《犯罪的本质》（The Nature of a Crime）（1924年）。
  福特鼓励和帮助过很多作家，在自己1908年创办的《英国评论》（English Review）上率先刊登D·H·劳伦斯和詹姆斯·乔伊斯的作品。向该杂志投稿的人还包括康拉德、T·S·艾略特、罗伯特·弗罗斯、托马斯·哈、约翰·梅斯菲尔德、赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯。1924年，福特在巴黎创办了《大西洋彼岸评论》（Transatlantic Review），发表乔伊斯、欧内斯特·海明威、艾
兹拉·庞德等人的作品。
  福特出生在萨里（Surrey），父亲休弗（Hueffer）先生是德国音乐评论家，祖父福特·马多克斯·布朗是英国画家。1919年，他将自己的名字改为福特。福特后来在密歇根州的奥立佛学院讲授英语。
  他的其他作品包括：传记——《亨利·詹姆斯》（Henry James）（1913年），《约瑟夫·康拉德：个人记忆》（Joseph Conrad, A Personal Remembrance）（1924年）。回忆录——《陈旧的记忆》（Ancient Lights）（1911年）、《回到昨天》（Return to Yesterday）（1931年）、《胜于武力》（Mightier Than the Sword）（1938年）。《诗选》（Selected Poems）（1973年）是一本诗歌选编。
Ford Madox Ford
Born 17 December 1873(1873-12-17)
Merton, Surrey
Died 26 June 1939(1939-06-26) (aged 65)
Deauville, France
Pen name Ford Hermann Hueffer, Ford Madox Hueffer
Occupation novelist, publisher
Nationality United Kingdom
Period 1892–1939
Ford Madox Ford (17 December 1873 – 26 June 1939) was an English novelist, poet, critic and editor whose journals, The English Review and The Transatlantic Review, were instrumental in the development of early 20th-century English literature. He is now best remembered for The Good Soldier (1915), the Parade's End tetralogy (1924–28) and The Fifth Queen trilogy (1906–08). The Good Soldier is frequently included among the great literature of the past century, including the Modern Library 100 Best Novels,[1] The Observ
er's '100 Greatest Novels of All Time',[2] and The Guardian's '1000 novels everyone must read'.[3]
Contents
1 Biography
2 Ford's literary life
3 Ford's promotion of literature
4 Later life
5 Selected works
6 References
7 Further reading
8 External links
[edit] Biography
He was born as Ford Hermann Hueffer on 17 December 1873 to Francis Hueffer, and he had a brother, Oliver Madox Hueffer. He went by the name of Ford Madox Hueffer and in 1919 changed it to Ford Madox Ford (allegedly because it sounded too German[4]) in honour of his grandfather, the Pre-Raphaelite painter Ford Madox Brown, whose biography he had written.
[edit] Ford's literary life
One of his most famous works is The Good Soldier (1915), a novel set just before World War I which chronicles the tragic lives of two "perfect couples" using intricate flashbacks. In a "Dedicatory Letter to Stella Ford” that prefaces the novel, Ford reports that a friend pronounced The Good Soldier “the finest French novel in the English language!” Ford pronounced himself a "Tory mad about historic continuity" and believed the novelist's function was to serve as the historian of his own time.[5]
Ford was involved in the British war propaganda after the outbreak of World War I. He worked for the War Propaganda Bureau managed by C. F. G. Masterman with other writers and scholars who were popular in those years, such as Arnold Bennett, G. K. Chesterton, John Galsworthy, Hilaire Belloc and Gilbert Murray. Ford wrote two propaganda books for Masterman, namely When Blood is Their Argument: An Analysis of Prussian Culture (1915), with the help of Richard Aldington, and Between St. Dennis and St. George: A Sketch of Three Civilizations (1915).
After writing the two propaganda books, Ford enlisted in the Welch Regiment on 30 July 1915, and was sent to France, thus ending his cooperation with the War Propaganda Bureau. His combat experiences and his previous propaganda activities inspired his tetralogy Parade's End (1924–1928), set in England and on the Western Front before, during and after World War I.
Ford also wrote dozens of novels as well as essays, poetry, memoir and literary criticism, and collaborated with Joseph Conrad on three novels, The Inheritors (1901), Romance (19
03) and The Nature of a Crime (1924, although written much earlier). In the three to five years after this direct collaboration, Ford's greatest achievement was The Fifth Queen trilogy (1906–1908), historical novels based on the life of Katharine Howard, which Conrad called, at the time, "the swan song of historical romance."[6]
His novel Ladies Whose Bright Eyes (1911, extensively revised in 1935)[7] is, in a sense, the reverse of A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court.
[edit] Ford's promotion of literature
In 1908, he founded The English Review, in which he published Thomas Hardy, H. G. Wells, Joseph Conrad, Henry James, John Galsworthy and William Butler Yeats, and gave debuts to Wyndham Lewis, D. H. Lawrence and Norman Douglas. In 1924, he founded The Transatlantic Review, a journal with great influence on modern literature. Staying with the artistic community in the Latin Quarter of Paris, France, he made friends with James Joyce, Ernest Hemingway, Gertrude Stein, Ezra Pound[8] and Jean Rhys, all of whom he would publish (Ford is the model for the character Braddocks in Hemingway's The Sun Also Rises)
. As a critic, he is known for remarking "Open the book to page ninety-nine and read, and the quality of the whole will be revealed to you." George Seldes, in his book Witness to a Century,[9] describes Ford's recollection of his writing collaboration with Joseph Conrad, his lack of acknowledgment by publishers of his status as coauthor. Seldes recounts Ford's disappointment with Hemingway, "and he disowns me now that he has become better known than I am. Tears now came to Ford's eyes. Ford says, "I helped Joseph Conrad, I helped Hemingway. I helped a dozen, a score of writers, and many of them have beaten me. I'm now an old man and I'll die without making a name like Hemingway." Seldes observes, "At this climax Ford began to sob. Then he began to cry."