A tremendous bestseller when it was published in 1925, "An American Tragedy" is the culmination of Theodore Dreiser's elementally powerful fictional art.
Taking as his point of departure a notorious murder case of 1910, Dreiser immersed himself in the social background of the crime to produce a book that is both a remarkable work of reportage and a monumental study of character. Few novels have undertaken to track so relentlessly the process by which an ordinary young man becomes capable of committing a ruthless murder, and the further process by which social and political forces come into play after his arrest.
In Clyde Griffiths, the impoverished, restless offspring of a family of street preachers, Dreiser created an unforgettable portrait of a man whose circumstances and dreams of self-betterment conspire to pull him toward an act of unforgivable violence. Around Clyde, Dreiser builds an extraordinarily detailed fictional portrait of early twentieth-century America, its religious and sexual hypocrisies, its economic pressures, its political corruption. The sheer prophetic amplitude of his bitter truth-telling, in idiosyncratic prose of uncanny expressive power, continues to mark Dreiser as a crucially important American writer.
"An American Tragedy," the great achievement of his later years, is a work of mythic force, at once brutal and heartbreaking.
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Автор |
Theodore Dreiser |
Страници |
870 |
Корица |
мека |
Език |
английски |
Година |
2010 |
Дата на получаване |
15.03.2015 г. |
Издателство |
SIGNET BOOK |
ID на книга |
50323155 |
ISBN |
9780451531551 |
Категории |
Световна класика |