Sinclair Lewis: Main Street | Taschenbuch

Cover: 9788028523480 | Main Street | Sinclair Lewis | Taschenbuch | Englisch | Copycat

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Main Street (1920) is Sinclair Lewis's incisive portrait of small-town American life, centered on Carol Kennicott's frustrated efforts to reform the provincial complacency of Gopher Prairie, Minnesota. Written in a lucid, satirical realist style, the novel exposes the moral smugness, conformity, and cultural barrenness that Lewis saw beneath the idealized mythology of the Midwest. Emerging in the aftermath of World War I, it belongs to a broader current of American social criticism that challenged boosterism and sentimental local color, making the town itself a revealing symbol of national habits and limitations. Lewis, the first American to receive the Nobel Prize in Literature, drew deeply on his upbringing in Sauk Centre, Minnesota, for this unsparing vision of provincial society. His intimate knowledge of small-town rhythms, ambitions, and hypocrisies gave the novel its remarkable authority. By the time he wrote Main Street, Lewis had become increasingly committed to exposing the self-satisfaction of middle-class America, a project that would define much of his major fiction. This is a book for readers interested in the social novel, American modernity, and the tension between individual aspiration and communal pressure. Main Street remains compelling not only as satire, but as a serious inquiry into the costs of conformity in American life.

Zusammenfassung

Sinclair Lewis (1885-1951) was an American writer and playwright. In 1930, he became the first writer from the United States to receive the Nobel Prize in Literature. He is best known for his novels Main Street, Babbitt, Arrowsmith, and It Can't Happen Here. His works are known for their critical views of American capitalism and materialism in the interwar period. He is also respected for his strong characterizations of modern working women.

Details

Genre:	Romane & Erzählungen
Rubrik:	Belletristik
Medium:	Taschenbuch
ISBN-13:	9788028523480
ISBN-10:	802852348X
Sprache:	Englisch
Autor:	Lewis, Sinclair
Hersteller:	Copycat
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Maße:	15 x 152 x 229 mm
Von/Mit:	Sinclair Lewis
Gewicht:	0,384 kg