Novel by Theodore Dreiser, published in 1925. It is a complex and compassionate account of the life and death of a young antihero named Clyde GRIFFITHS. The novel begins with Clyde's blighted background, recounts his path to success, and culminates in his apprehension, trial, and execution for murder. The book was called by one influential critic "the worst-written great novel in the world," but its questionable grammar and style are transcended by its narrative power. Dreiser's intricate speculations on the extent of Clyde's guilt are countered by his searing indictment of materialism and the American dream of success. -- The Merriam-Webster Encyclopedia of Literature
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.
首先,这部作品的伟大之处在于其现实主义。现实主义的伟大在于其描写的人的苦难。德莱塞写现实生活中发生在个人身上的悲剧,是他的杰出之处。 其次,德莱塞的稚嫩之处在于,他在写到克莱德害死罗伯达之后,偏离了批判现实主义,开始走上乏味的探案和审判过程,不得不说是一种...
评分“克莱德,给你去信,为的是让你不要觉得你往日的以上人已经把你完全忘掉了。她也饱受了痛苦。她虽然永远也不能理解你怎么会干得这等事来,但即便是现在,尽管她永远也不会再跟你见面了,她并不 是没有悲伤和同情心的,她还祝愿你自由和幸福。” 其他所有的都不讲,看到这里,...
评分一点题外话,1873年,美国。 在此之前,各种杂志小报乐此不疲地利用着凶杀、艳情一类的噱头吸引着普遍低级趣味的读者。当时的三版当然不如今天《太阳报》(“The Sun”)的一样活生色香玉体横陈。他们只有诸如大亨的晚宴上裸体舞女坐在一只装满香槟酒的浴盆里,房地产富商和他的...
评分总觉得德莱塞长得不够睿智,笨头笨脑的,没有写东西人应该有的灵气。 他在1900年写了《嘉莉妹妹》,25年写了《美国的悲剧》。原以为德莱塞在美国,是中国的巴金,真正意义上的家喻户晓。和我父母亲同辈的美国人,如果学的不是文科,多半不知道德莱塞是谁。最近20年来,美国才开...
评分花了好几天的时间看完《美国的悲剧》,第三部分看得比较简略。第一感觉是小说的主人翁克莱特活得太自私,他的悲剧是自找的。但是为何这样一个故事却被德莱塞认为是“美国的悲剧”?克莱特的普遍意义在哪里? 首先可以从角色的设定上来分析。《嘉莉妹妹》和《欲望三部...
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