Main Street (Barnes & Noble Classics Series)

de Sinclair Lewis (auteur), Brooke Allen (introduction), Brooke Allen (introduction et notes)

Maison d'édition : Barnes & Noble Classics

juin 2009

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“This is America—a town of a few thousand, in a region of wheat and corn and dairies and little groves.” So Sinclair Lewis—recipient of the Nobel Prize and rejecter of the Pulitzer—prefaces his novel Main Street. Lewis is brutal in his depictions of the self-satisfied inhabitants of small-town America, a place which proves to be merely an assemblage of pretty surfaces, strung together and ultimately empty.

Brooke Allen holds a Ph.D. in English literature from Columbia University. She is a book critic whose work has appeared in numerous publications including The Atlantic Monthly, The New Criterion, The New York Times Book Review, The Wall Street Journal, The Hudson Review, and The New Leader. A collection of her essays, Twentieth Century Attitudes, will be published in 2003.

Auteur

Sinclair Lewis (auteur)

Sinclair Lewis (1885-1951), écrivain majeur de la littérature américaine du XXe siècle, se rend célèbre avec la parution de Main Street (1920, Archipoche 2022), puis de Babbitt (1922), prototype du roman behavioriste. Il reçoit le prix Nobel de Littérature en 1930 – faisant de lui le premier écrivain américain à être honoré de cette distinction. On l'a redécouvert en 2016 avec la réédition de son roman Impossible ici (1935, traduction de Raymond Queneau), qui imaginait l'élection d'un candidat populiste à la Maison Blanche.