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Steinbeck’s book-length account of his journey, “Travels With Charley: In Search of America,” published in 1962, was generally well reviewed and became a best-seller. It remains in print, regarded by some as a classic of American travel writing. Almost from the beginning, though, a few readers pointed out that many of the conversations in the book had a stagey, wooden quality, not unlike the dialogue in Steinbeck’s fiction. Early on in the book, for example, Steinbeck has a New England farmer talking in folksy terms about Nikita S. Khrushchev’s shoe-pounding (or -brandishing, depending on whom you ask) speech at the United Nations weeks before Khrushchev actually visited the United Nations. A particularly unlikely encounter occurs at a campsite near Alice, N.D., where a Shakespearean actor, mistaking Steinbeck for a fellow thespian, greets him with a sweeping bow, saying, “I see you are of the profession,” and then proceeds to talk about John Gielgud. Even Steinbeck’s son John said he was convinced that his father never talked to many of the people he wrote about, and added, “He just sat in his camper and wrote all that [expletive].” Pertenece a las series editorialesCOLECÇÃO DOIS MUNDOS (Livros do Brasil) — 6 más Contenido enCannery Row | East of Eden | Grapes of Wrath | Of Mice and Men | The Pearl | Travels with Charley por John Steinbeck Setinbeck Hardcover Collection: Tortilla Flat, The Winter of Our Discontent, East of Eden, The Grapes of Wrath, Travels with Charley, & The Long Valley por John Steinbeck Aparece abreviada enInspiradoTiene como guía de estudio aDistincionesListas de sobresalientes
En buena medida, debemos a la obra de novelistas como Steinbeck nuestra idea de la Ame?rica genuina, esa que, ajena a la sofisticascio?n, esta? hecha de trabajos duros y personalidades fuertes. A los 58 an?os, John Steinbeck decidio? prescindir de las convenciones de la ficcio?n y empredio? un viaje por Estados Unidos con vistas a obtener una impresio?n directa de su paisaje y sus gentes. Acompan?ado de su perrito Charley, recorrio? cuarenta estados, circulo? por autopistas y carreteras secundarias, compartio? mesa y mantel con camioneros, vendedores y viajeros sin rumbo, recobro? viejas amistades esparcidas por el pai?s y, sobre todo, se imbuyo? del paisaje fi?sico y moral de su tierra. El resultado de estas experiencias es una reflexio?n realista, a la vez lu?cida y apasionada, sobre el cara?cter americano, un ejercicio literario que au?na capacidad descriptiva e inspiracio?n li?rica, un estudio que consolida y ahonda las impresiones que nos dejaron las novelas de Steinbeck. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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