Книга: Steinbeck John «East of Eden»

East of Eden

Серия: "Penguin Modern Classics"

There is only one book to a man. Steinbeck wrote of East of Eden. Set in the rich farmland of the Salinas Valley, California, this powerful, often brutal novel, follows the interwined destinies of two families - the Trasks and the Hamiltons - whose generations hopelessly re-enact the fall of Adam and Eve and the poisonous rivalry of Cain and Abel. Here Steinbeck created some of his most memorable characters and explored his most enduring themes: the mystery of indentity; the inexplicability of love, and the murderous consequences of love's absence.

Издательство: "Penguin Group" (2014)

ISBN: 978-0-14-139489-3

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Steinbeck, John

▪ American novelist
in full  John Ernst Steinbeck  
born Feb. 27, 1902, Salinas, Calif., U.S.
died Dec. 20, 1968, New York, N.Y.
 American novelist, best known for The Grapes of Wrath (1939), which summed up the bitterness of the Great Depression decade and aroused widespread sympathy for the plight of migratory farm workers. He received the Nobel Prize for Literature for 1962.

      Steinbeck attended Stanford University, Stanford, Calif., intermittently between 1920 and 1926 but did not take a degree. Before his books attained success, he spent considerable time supporting himself as a manual labourer while writing, and his experiences lent authenticity to his depictions of the lives of the workers in his stories. He spent much of his life in Monterey county, Calif., which later was the setting of some of his fiction.

      Steinbeck's first novel, Cup of Gold (1929), was followed by The Pastures of Heaven (1932) and To a God Unknown (1933), none of which were successful. He first achieved popularity with Tortilla Flat (1935), an affectionately told story of Mexican-Americans. The mood of gentle humour turned to one of unrelenting grimness in his next novel, In Dubious Battle (1936), a classic account of a strike by agricultural labourers and a pair of Marxist labour organizers who engineer it. The novella Of Mice and Men (1937), which also appeared in play and film versions, is a tragic story about the strange, complex bond between two migrant labourers. The Grapes of Wrath won a Pulitzer Prize and a National Book Award and was made into a notable film in 1940. The novel is about the migration of a dispossessed family from the Oklahoma Dust Bowl to California and describes their subsequent exploitation by a ruthless system of agricultural economics.

      After the best-selling success of The Grapes of Wrath, Steinbeck went to Mexico to collect marine life with the freelance biologist Edward F. Ricketts, and the two men collaborated in writing Sea of Cortez (1941), a study of the fauna of the Gulf of California. During World War II Steinbeck wrote some effective pieces of government propaganda, among them The Moon Is Down (1942), a novel of Norwegians under the Nazis, and he also served as a war correspondent. His immediate postwar work—Cannery Row (1945), The Pearl (1947), and The Wayward Bus (1947)—contained the familiar elements of his social criticism but were more relaxed in approach and sentimental in tone.

      Steinbeck's later writings were comparatively slight works of entertainment and journalism interspersed with three conscientious attempts to reassert his stature as a major novelist: Burning Bright (1950), East of Eden (1952), and The Winter of Our Discontent (1961). In critical opinion, none equaled his earlier achievement. East of Eden, an ambitious epic about the moral relations between a California farmer and his two sons, was made into a film in 1955. Steinbeck himself wrote the scripts for the film versions of his stories The Pearl (1948) and The Red Pony (1949). Outstanding among the scripts he wrote directly for motion pictures were Forgotten Village (1941) and Viva Zapata! (1952).

      Steinbeck's reputation rests mostly on the naturalistic novels with proletarian themes he wrote in the 1930s; it is in these works that his building of rich symbolic structures and his attempts at conveying mythopoeic and archetypal qualities in his characters are most effective.

Additional Reading
Biographies and critical studies include Jackson J. Benson, The True Adventures of John Steinbeck, Writer (1984, reissued 1990); Jay Parini, John Steinbeck (1994); Roy Simmonds, John Steinbeck: The War Years, 1939–1945 (1996); Warren French, John Steinbeck, 2nd ed., rev. (1975, reissued 1984); Paul McCarthy, John Steinbeck (1980); R.S. Hughes, John Steinbeck: A Study of the Short Fiction (1989); John H. Timmerman, The Dramatic Landscape of Steinbeck's Short Stories (1990); and Donald R. Noble (ed.), The Steinbeck Question: New Essays in Criticism (1993).

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Источник: Steinbeck, John

См. также в других словарях:

  • East of Eden — may refer to: Land of Nod, the place Cain was exiled to; located on the east of Eden according to the Bible East of Eden (novel), a 1952 novel by Nobel Prize winner John Steinbeck East of Eden (film), a 1955 motion picture based on the book Omar… …   Wikipedia

  • East of Eden — (englisch: östlich von Eden), im Deutschen auch bekannt als Jenseits von Eden bezeichnet: Nod, in der Genesis (Gen 4,16 EU) erwähntes Land „östlich von Eden“ Jenseits von Eden, Roman von John Steinbeck aus dem Jahr 1952 Jenseits von Eden (Film),… …   Deutsch Wikipedia

  • East of Eden — Título Al Este del Edén (España) Al este del paraíso (Hispanoamérica) Ficha técnica Dirección Elia Kazan Producción Elia Kazan …   Wikipedia Español

  • East of Eden — [East of Eden] a novel (1952) by the US author John Steinbeck. It is about a farmer and his family in the Salinas Valley of ↑California during the early years of the 20th century. A film version (1955) used mostly the second half of the book, in… …   Useful english dictionary

  • East of Eden — À l est d Éden (film, 1955) Pour les articles homonymes, voir À l est d Éden. À l est d Éden Titre original East of Eden Réalisation Elia Kazan Acteurs principaux …   Wikipédia en Français

  • East of Eden (disambiguation) — East of Eden may refer to:*Land of Nod, is according to the Bible located on the east of Eden *East of Eden, the 1952 novel by Nobel Prize winner John Steinbeck *East of Eden (1955 film), the 1955 motion picture based on the book *East of Eden… …   Wikipedia

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