Sinclair Lewis

A man of science must overcome public ignorance and the petty greed of associates as he seeks knowledge

Arrowsmith

'An eerily prescient foreshadowing of current affairs' Guardian 'Not only Lewis's most important book but one of the most important books ever produced in the United States' New Yorker A vain, outlandish, anti-immigrant, fearmongering demagogue runs for President of the United States - and wins. Sinclair Lewis's chilling 1935 bestseller is the story of Buzz Windrip, 'Professional Common Man', who promises poor, angry voters that he will make America proud and prosperous once more, but takes the country down a far darker path. As the new regime slides into authoritarianism, newspaper editor Doremus Jessup can't believe it will last - but is he right? This cautionary tale of liberal complacency in the face of populist tyranny shows it really can happen here.

It Can't Happen Here

The life of an aggressive, prosperous realtor is described reflecting an image of middle-class America

Babbitt

Dodsworth

Fame was just around the corner when Sinclair Lewis published Free Air in 1919, a year before Main Street. The latter novel zeroed in on the town of Gopher Prairie; the former stopped there briefly and then took the reader by automobile in search of America. Free Air heads toward a West that was brimming with possibilities for suddenly mobile Americans at the end of a world war. The vehicle in Lewis’s novel, not a Model T but a Gomez-Dep roadster, takes Claire Boltwood and her father from Minnesota to Seattle, exposing them all to the perils of early motoring. On the road, the upper-crust Boltwoods are at once more insignificant and more noble. The greatest distance to be overcome is the social one between Claire and a young mechanic named Milt, who, with a cat as his traveling companion, follows close behind. If Free Air anticipates many of the themes of Lewis’s later novels, it also looks forward to a genre that includes John Steinbeck’s Travels with Charley and Josh Greenfeld and Paul Mazursky’s Harry and Tonto. And the character of Claire, blazing her own trail across the West, looks back to the nineteenth-century pioneer woman and ahead to the independent-minded movie heroines played by Katherine Hepburn. In his introduction Robert E. Fleming discusses the place of this early novel in Lewis’s canon.

Free Air

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En fåfäng, invandrarfientlig och skräckinjagande demagog kandiderar som USA:s president – och vinner. Buss Windrip är en »vanlig man«, han lovar de fattiga och arga väljarna att han ska förvandla Amerika till att åter bli det välmående, stolta land det en gång varit. Sinclair Lewis dystopiska roman Sånt händer inte här [It Can’t Happen Here, 1935] skrevs under den stora depressionen, när amerikanerna i stor utsträckning var omedvetna om Hitlers aggressiva framfart och den blomstrande fascismen i Europa. En otäckt realistisk skildring om en president som blir diktator för att rädda nationen. I översättning av Hugo Hultenberg. SINCLAIR LEWIS [1885-1951] var en amerikansk författare. Efter examen från Yale skrev han för tidningar som Cosmopolitan och The Saturday Evening Post. Han fick sitt litterära genombrott med den satiriska romanen Storgatan [Main Street, 1920]. Sinclair Lewis var den förste amerikanske författaren att tilldelas Nobelpriset. »Inte bara Lewis viktigaste bok, utan en av de viktigaste böckerna som någonsin publicerats i USA.« New Yorker

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Two of Lewis' novels depict the hipocrisy and complacency of middle-class America

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"This cheerful little road novel, published in 1919, is about Claire Boltwood, who, in the early days of the 20th century, travels by automobile from New York City to the Pacific Northwest, where she falls in love with a nice, down-to-earth young man and gives up her snobbish Estate."

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