Last night I bought a copy of Sinclair Lewis' It Can't Happen Here, based mostly on the recommendation of Amazon.com, as it is thematically related to 1984.
It was something of a discovery for me, as I hadn't really noticed Sinclair Lewis before. I'm not stupid, but it is entirely possible that I mistook him for Upton Sinclair. Either way, I read the introduction to It Can't Happen Here and found it encouraging.
According to the introduction, his early works such as Main Street, Babbitt, and Elmer Gantry dealt with themes that "hold a mirror up to the parochialism and provincialism" of the time and his readers "flinched at his representations of their middle-class lives."
I think I need to look into this Sinclair Lewis; I like what I've heard so far...
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Tuesday, November 23, 2010
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