海曼斯49岁那年秋天,在一次交通事故中失去了左腿,一只眼睛也几乎完全丧失了视力,并因此失去了一份不错的工作。经历了短暂的伤感后,海曼斯决定重新设计一下自己未来的生活。他首先想到了写作,尽管他谈不上有任何的文学天赋和基本功底,此前他也没认真读过几部文学作品,也从未写过任何与文学有关的东西,但他还是满怀激情地拿起笔来,开始跋涉于一个陌生的领域。最初的两年间,海曼斯收到了超过700封的退稿信后,才在一家发行量非常小的刊物上发表了一篇不足千字的小小说。 At the age of 49, Heymans lost his left leg in a traffic accident and one eye almost completely lost sight and lost a good job. After a short period of sadness, Heymans decided to redesign the future of their own life. He first thought of writing, though he did not have any literary talent and basic skills, after he did not read several literary works, and never wrote anything related to literature, but he was passionately Pick up the pen, began to trek in a strange field. In the first two years, after receiving more than 700 letters of rejection, Heymans published a short novel of less than a thousand words in a very circulation-heavy publication.