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Babbitt

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Full of vivid satire -- Robert McCrum ? Observer

Sinclair Lewis's wonderful demolition of the venal and pusillanimous nature of commercial America, Babbitt ? Scotland on Sunday

A satirical masterpiece ? Sunday Times

One of the century's most perceptive writers on working life ? Observer

His view of America was mordant, yet it was also unexpectedly loving; there is a tenderness in all three of these books that catches the reader unawares, and imbues them with a humanity that makes their satire all the more penetrating. ? Washington Post
Biografía del autor
Sinclair Lewis was an American playwright and novelist. Born in 1885, he received his bachelor's degree from Yale University in 1908 and published his first novel, Hike and the Aeroplane, in 1912. He published Babbitt, perhaps his most fanous work, in 1922 and in 1926 he was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for his novel Arrowsmith but rejected it. In 1930 he was the first American to be awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature. He died in Rome, in 1951, and his last novel World So Wide was published posthumously.









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  • Author Sinclair Lewis
  • ISBN13 9780099264712
  • ISBN10 0099264714
  • Language English
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Sinclair Lewis Sinclair Lewis

Sinclair Lewis

1885 (Sauk Centre) – 1951 (Roma) See page of Sinclair Lewis
Sinclair Lewis nació en Saulk Centre, Minnesota, en 1885. Tras graduarse en 1908 por la Universidad de Yale, trabajó como editor y periodista en Nueva York, California y Washington, mientras escribía relatos y novelas populares que se serializaban en revistas. El éxito le llegó con Calle Mayor (1920), una novela que cosechó encendidos elogios de la crítica y causó sensación como retrato satírico de las pujantes clases medias. Durante el decenio siguiente, escribió otras cuatro novelas que lo situaron entre los escritores más importantes de su generación: Babbitt (1922), Arrowsmith (1925, ganadora del Premio Pulitzer, que rechazó), Elmer Gantry (1927) y Dodsworth (1929). En 1930, se convirtió en el primer estadounidense en recibir el Premio Nobel de Literatura, otorgado «por su vigorosa y plástica facultad descriptiva y por su capacidad para construir, con ingenio y humor, nuevos tipos de personajes». Durante el resto de su vida, Lewis continuó publicando novelas, incluida la mordaz Eso no puede pasar aquí (1935), que imaginaba la llegada de un dictador fascista a la Casa Blanca. Con todo, nunca volvió a alcanzar la calidad literaria que había exhibido en la década de 1920. Murió en Roma en 1951.
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