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.
小说的主人公是出身贫寒的青年克莱德,他追求金钱和地位,逐渐蜕变,最终堕落成杀人犯,在23岁时被送上电椅。这是他个人的悲剧,也是“美国的悲剧”。作者在惋惜克莱德自我毁灭的同时,以锐利的锋芒揭露了美国资本主义社会的黑暗和官场政治的腐败,揭示了虚假繁荣所掩饰的深刻...
评分不知道有没有同学和我一样,小时候是从这套黄皮书开始看世界名著的。 好怀念那种没心没肺把名著当言情小说读的年代啊! 记得当时年幼很没文化,还以为《红与黑》是抄《美国的悲剧》的……- -!
评分抱歉哈,这书70万字,真心没看,不过把电影看了一遍,模仿《红与黑》情节。 只想简单说点,首先我觉,这么简单的情节主线,七千字能搞定的内容,硬塞了七十万字的乌烟瘴气的内容在里面,我一直很好奇那么一大坨里面究竟啥东西?好吧,西奥多根本就不懂小说的艺术。 其次,情节...
评分正是特朗普如同“奇迹”般的当选美国总统之际,来看这部德莱塞最宏篇巨作的这部小说,似乎有种奇特的荒诞感,一个勉强可以说是美国梦的成功吧,对于特朗普来说至少在政治上是成功了。而对于克莱德来说却是美国梦碎,这也是标题所说的“美国悲剧”。 克莱德犯罪了吗?这是一个很...
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...
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