Salt : or, The education of Griffith Adams
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Salt : or, The education of Griffith Adams
（Lost American fiction）
Southern Illinois University Press, 1981
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Education of Griffith Adams
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Reprint of the ed. published by Dutton, New York
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内容説明
A finely significant novel written with deep understanding of the facts and with a spiritual insight that does not flag even for a moment as it throws light into the dark corners of human nature "Boston" "Evening Transcript "(1918). A naturalist novel written in the tradition of Theodore Dreiser and Upton Sinclair, "Salt "has interesting and provocative things to say about the education of American upper-middle-class males and about the power of sex to overcome a man s deep distaste for a woman s personality.As a criticism of life the novel today seems simply the herald of a day when loud voices are less noted because all voices are loud. Today its vivid characterizations are its primary interest. Lester Adams, Griffith s alcoholic half-brother, whose days and nights are mired in an unchanging routine of newspapers and whiskey, manages to preserve a semblance of heart and an odd little spark of integrity. F. Scott Fitzgerald considered Lester, along with George Hurstwood and Tom Buchanan, the three best characters in contemporary American fiction.Griffith s paramour, Clarisse Rumsey, is cheap, lazy, and pretentious; she is dull and almost illiterate; she is absurdly affected, but she has two qualities that enchain her reluctant lover: her obvious passion for him and her skill at dancing. As Auchincloss points out in the Afterword, Today, her dancing would be lovemaking, but before 1914 a girl who tried to be respectable would endeavor to put the latter off at least until she had hooked her man. Griffith and Clarisse are married and Clarisse bears him a son then dies of a pulmonary embolism as Norris manipulates the plot to redeem Griffith and to denounce the American boarding school and university."
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