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Main Street ist ein satirisch-sozialkritischer Roman von Sinclair Lewis aus dem Jahr 1920. Sein Erscheinen war eines der sensationellsten Ereignisse der amerikanischen Verlagsgeschichte. 1922 erschien eine deutsche Übersetzung mit dem Titel Die Hauptstraße. Carola Kennicotts Geschichte, weitere deutsche Übersetzungen wurden 1927 und 1963 ...
1 de ene. de 2001 · The novel Babbitt demonstrates how Main Street's mentality operates in the cities with 300,000 citizens, a step higher than little Gopher Prairie. While Carol Kennicott rebels against mediocrity, George F. Babbit is a typical carrier of a provincial gene.
Before the publication of Main Street, many Americans still viewed the small town idealistically, the last bastion of good people and traditional American morals and values in the midst of a changing and somewhat frightening modern world. In this novel, however, Lewis exposes this myth of the goodness of small town-life as a falsehood.
3 de ene. de 2019 · In this sense, Main Street, a novel about the village virus, is also an autobiography of Sinclair Lewis’s spiritual development or, rather, spiritual stagnation. The year 1921 was highlighted by an outburst of favorable and unfavorable reactions to this novel.
Main Street Full Book Summary. Carol Milford attends Blodgett College in Minneapolis and dreams about settling down in a prairie village and transforming it into a place of beauty. After graduation, she works as a librarian at St. Paul for three years. She meets Dr.
About Main Street. The first of Sinclair Lewis’s great successes, Main Street shattered the sentimental American myth of happy small-town life with its satire of narrow-minded provincialism. Reflecting his own unhappy childhood in Sauk Centre, Minnesota, Lewis’s sixth novel attacked the conformity and dullness he saw in midwestern village life.
3 de jun. de 2008 · Main Street. The first of Sinclair Lewis’s great successes, Main Street shattered the sentimental American myth of happy small-town life with its satire of narrow-minded provincialism. Reflecting his own unhappy childhood in Sauk Centre, Minnesota, Lewis’s sixth novel attacked the conformity and dullness he saw in midwestern village life.
