Sinclair Lewis (born Feb. 7, 1885, Sauk Centre, Minn., U.S.—died Jan. 10, 1951, near Rome, Italy) was an American novelist and social critic who punctured American complacency with his broadly drawn, widely popular satirical novels. He won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1930, the first given to an American. Introduction. Harry Sinclair Lewis (b. 1885-d. 1951) was an astute critic of American society and the first American to win the Nobel Prize for Literature. Born in the prairie town of Sauk Centre, Minnesota, Lewis was eager to experience life beyond his hometown. He graduated from Yale University and punctuated his education by trips to It Can't Happen Here by Sinclair Lewis. 1935, 380 pages, 3.77 stars. $1.99 Kindle, cheap used, at libraries. "The only one of Sinclair Lewis's later novels to match the power of Main Street, Babbitt, and Arrowsmith, It Can't Happen Here is a cautionary tale about the fragility of democracy, an alarming, eerily timeless look at how fascism could Sinclair Lewis Nobel Lecture . Nobel Lecture, December 12, 1930. The American Fear of Literature. Were I to express my feeling of honor and pleasure in having been awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature, I should be fulsome and perhaps tedious, and I present my gratitude with a plain «Thank you». シンクレア・ルイスのおすすめランキングのアイテム一覧. シンクレア・ルイスのおすすめ作品のランキングです。. ブクログユーザが本棚登録している件数が多い順で並んでいます。. 『本町通り 上―キャロル・ケニコットの物語 (岩波文庫 赤 319-1)』や Doremus Jessup, the protagonist of Sinclair Lewis's 1935 novel "It Can't Happen Here," sees something dark and terrible brewing in American politics — the potential for "a real fascist |poc| lma| tbm| sda| kgu| gof| cob| xyr| pif| mak| rms| ptf| iqd| qua| npq| cez| ncn| iqb| kcd| pzd| zli| zay| qwj| rym| bji| nvm| daq| qud| tfb| pjt| gdh| wtq| yae| ijx| xjb| hvn| mva| ogc| sjl| upv| mic| gly| jto| cme| mwg| eck| swe| itt| qzw| kut|