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"I think perhaps we want a more conscious life. We're tired of drudging and sleeping and dying. We're tired of seeing just a few people able to be individualists. We're tired of always deferring hope till the next generation. We're tired of hearing politicians and priests and cautious reformers... coax us, 'Be calm! Be patient! Wait! We have the plans for a Utopia already made; just wiser than you.' For ten thousand years they've said that. We want our Utopia now -- and we're going to try our hands at it."
~ Sinclair Lewis, Main Street
The book that first established Sinclair Lewis's reputation as an important writer is both a satire and an affectionate portrait of Gopher Prairie, a typical American town, which was undoubtedly suggested by Sauk Centre, Minnesota, where Lewis was born.
The heroine, Carol Kennicott, chafes at the dullness and sterility of her existence as the wife of the local doctor, and she tries unsuccessfully to make the townspeople conscious of culture and refinement. For a time, she leaves to lead her own life but eventually returns to make a kind of peace with 'Main Street.'
The novel aroused considerable controversy when it was first published in 1920. Meredith Nicholson attacked it in 'Let Main Street Alone!' (1921) and Carolyn Wells burlesqued it in Ptomaine Street, The Tale of Warble Petticoat (1921). A decade after its publication in 1930, Sinclair Lewis became the first writer from the United States to be awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature, "for his vigorous and graphic art of description and his ability to create, with wit and humor, new types of characters." His works are known for their insightful and critical views of American society and capitalist values, as well as for their strong characterizations of modern working women.
~ Sinclair Lewis, Main Street
The book that first established Sinclair Lewis's reputation as an important writer is both a satire and an affectionate portrait of Gopher Prairie, a typical American town, which was undoubtedly suggested by Sauk Centre, Minnesota, where Lewis was born.
The heroine, Carol Kennicott, chafes at the dullness and sterility of her existence as the wife of the local doctor, and she tries unsuccessfully to make the townspeople conscious of culture and refinement. For a time, she leaves to lead her own life but eventually returns to make a kind of peace with 'Main Street.'
The novel aroused considerable controversy when it was first published in 1920. Meredith Nicholson attacked it in 'Let Main Street Alone!' (1921) and Carolyn Wells burlesqued it in Ptomaine Street, The Tale of Warble Petticoat (1921). A decade after its publication in 1930, Sinclair Lewis became the first writer from the United States to be awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature, "for his vigorous and graphic art of description and his ability to create, with wit and humor, new types of characters." His works are known for their insightful and critical views of American society and capitalist values, as well as for their strong characterizations of modern working women.
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