John Steinbeck (1902–1968)
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In recent years Steinbeck has been elevated to a more prominent status among American writers of his generation. If not quite at the world-class artistic level of a Hemingway or a Faulkner, he is nonetheless read very widely throughout the world by readers of all ages who consider him one of the vis mere most "American" of writers. Born in Salinas County, California on February 27, 1902, Steinbeck was of German-Irish parentage. After four years as a special student at Stanford University, he went to New York, where he worked as a reporter and as a hod carrier. Returning to California, he devoted himself to writing, with little success; his first three books sold fewer than 3,000 copies. Tortilla Flat (1935), dealing with the paisanos, California Mexicans whose ancestors settled in the country 200 years ago, established his reputation. In Dubious Battle (1936), a labor novel of a strike and strike-breaking, won the gold medal of the Commonwealth Club of California. Of Mice and Men (1937), a long short story that turns upon a melodramatic incident in the tragic friendship of two farm hands, written almost entirely in dialogue, was an experiment and was dramatized in the year of its publication, winning the New York Drama Critics Circle Award. It brought him fame. Out of a series of articles that he wrote about the transient labor camps in California came the inspiration for his greatest book, The Grapes of Wrath (1939), the odyssey of the Joad family, dispossessed of their farm in the Dust Bowl and seeking a new home, only to be driven on from camp to camp. The fiction is punctuated at intervals by the author's voice explaining this new sociological problem of homelessness, unemployment, and displacement. As the American novel "of the season, probably the year, possibly the decade," it won the Pulitzer Prize in 1940. It roused America and won a broad readership by the unusual simplicity and tenderness with which Steinbeck treated social questions. Even today, The Grapes of Wrath remains alive as a vivid account of believable human characters seen in symbolic and universal terms as well as in geographically and historically specific ones. Ma Joad is one of the most memorable characters in twentieth-century American fiction. It is her courage that sustains the family. Steinbeck's best and most ambitious novel after The Grapes of Wrath is East of Eden (1952), a saga of two American families in California from before the Civil War through World War I. Cannery Row (1945), The Wayward Bus (1947), and Sweet Thursday (1955) are lighter works that find Steinbeck returning to the lighthearted tone of Tortilla Flat as he recounts picaresque adventures of modern-day picaros. The Winter of Our Discontent (1961) struck some reviewers as being appropriately titled because of its despairing treatment of humanity's fall from grace in a wasteland world where money is king. Steinbeck also wrote important nonfiction, including Russian Journal (1948) in collaboration with the photographer Robert Capa; Once There Was a War (1958) and America and Americans (1966), which features pictures by 55 leading photographers and a 70-page essay by Steinbeck. His interest in marine biology led to two books primarily about sea life, Sea of Cortez (1941) (with Edward F. Ricketts) and The Log from the Sea of Cortez (1951). Travels with Charley (1962) is an engaging account of his journey of rediscovery of America, which took him through approximately 40 states. Steinbeck was married three times and died in New York City on December 20, 1968 of heart disease and congestive heart failure. He was 66, and had been a life-long smoker. (Bowker Author Biography) vis mindre
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(eng) For the author's son (1946-1991), see John Steinbeck IV.
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- Steinbeck, John Ernst
- Fødselsdato
- 1902-02-27
- Dødsdag
- 1968-12-20
- Begravelsessted
- Garden of Memories Memorial Park, Salinas, Monterey County, California USA
- Køn
- male
- Nationalitet
- USA
- Fødested
- Salinas, California, USA
- Dødssted
- New York, New York, USA
- Dødsårsag
- heart disease and congestive heart failure
- Uddannelse
- Stanford University (did not graduate)
- Erhverv
- writer
- Relationer
- Steinbeck, Thomas (son)
Steinbeck, John, IV (son) - Priser og hædersbevisninger
- Nobel Prize (Literature ∙ 1962)
Presidential Medal of Freedom (1964)
Academy Award nominee (1944)
California Hall of Fame (2007)
National Book Award (1940)
Pulitzer Prize for Fiction (1940) (vis alle 8)
DeMolay International Hall of Fame (1995)
American Academy of Arts and Letters (Literature ∙ 1939) - Oplysning om flertydighed
- For the author's son (1946-1991), see John Steinbeck IV.
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Kino er en fattig fisker ved den mexikanske golf. Han lever et enkelt liv sammen med sin kone Juana og deres lille søn Coyotito, og hver morgen står han op, nyder stedets skønhed og sejler ud i sin solide kano for at dykke efter perler. Det samme gør hans bror og de andre fiskere i byens udkant, og de ved egentlig godt, at perleopkøberne snyder dem, men når nogen har forsøgt at skabe konkurrence er de hurtigt forsvundet. Snart viser der sig dog en meget mere konkret trussel i deres paradis: En skorpion sniger sig op i vuggen til drengen, og selvom Kino er hurtig bliver drengen stukket. Desperat prøver de at suge giften ud, og da lægen efter en ydmygende vandring nægter at tage imod de fortvivlede forældre, må noget gøres. Kanoen kommer i vandet og nede på bunden finder Kino en særligt stor musling i en mørk sprække i havbunden. Indeni befinder sig den vældigste perle, der nogen sinde er fundet i den lille by.
I første omgang er alle glade. Kino kan drømme om at give familien ordentligt tøj og om at sende drengen i skole, så de ikke længere er afhængige af de hvide, der kan læse. Men hurtigt begynder stemningen af skifte, og Kino ser mistroisk på sine omgivelser. Lægen viser pludselig interesse for drengen, men redder medicinen Coyotito fra skorpionstikket, eller er lægen i virkeligheden klar til at gøre drengen endnu mere syg, så han kan ”redde” ham? Helt galt går det, da Kino nægter at tage imod de høje men stadig fornærmende priser på den enestående perle. Han beskylder opkøberne for bedrageri og lover, at han selv vil tage til byen for at sælge perlen.
Ubehagelige skikkelser nærmer sig i nattemørket, og inden længe er Kino og hans lille familie på desperat flugt fra den lille by. Han ved, at han vil blive forfulgt, men perlen giver hverken ham eller hans forfølgere noget valg.
Perlen er hurtigt læst, og selvom den har karakter af fabel – også i sin idylliserende fremstilling af Kinos enkle liv inden perlen bliver fundet – så har den også interessante persontegninger. Kino og Juana bliver hevet ud af deres trygge hverdag og stillet over for dilemmaer, de ikke havde drømt om, men de finder kræfter, de ikke vidste at de havde. Samtidig er skildringen af, hvor hurtigt det trygge lille samfund forvandles til en truende mur af misundelse og begær, mesterligt udført. Dejligt gensyn!… (mere)