Donnerstag, 1. Oktober 2009

29.11.2016 - Steinbeck2 and Pres. Sp. 1962 etc...





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01.10.2009 - Interpretation of dali48

While studying at Stanford University, he often had to earn his living by working on the ranches! - He left Stanford without graduating, and went to New York as a freelance writer in 1925 - After bitter years of struggling to exist, he returned to California - where he found a home in a lonely cottage by the sea! - There he continued his writing... (J. Steinbeck, Pres. Sp. 1962)

The Grapes of Wrath (1939) is the story of the emigration to California - which was forced upon a group of people from Oklahoma through unemployment and abuse of power! - This tragic episode in the social history of the United States inspired in Steinbeck a poignant description of the experiences of one particular farmer and his family - during their endless, and heart-breaking journey to a new home...

Again he holds his position as an independent expounder of the truth - with an unbiased instinct for what is genuinely American - be it good or bad...

"I wonder why progress so often looks like destruction" - he says in one place when he sees the bulldozers flattening out the verdant forest of Seattle - to make room for the feverishly expanding residential areas and skyscrapers! - It is in any case a most topical reflection, valid also outside America...

There is in him a strain of grim humour which to some extent redeems his often cruel and crude motif! - His sympathies always go out to the oppressed, to the misfits and the distressed - he likes to contrast the simple joy of life with the brutal and cynical craving for money! - But in him we find the American temperament also in his great feeling for nature - for the tilled soil, the wasteland, the mountains, and the ocean coasts - all an inexhaustible source of inspiration to Steinbeck in the midst of, and beyond the world of human beings... (J. Steinbeck, Pres. Sp. 1962)


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