Clare Virginia Eby’s new edition brings to print for the first time Dreiser’s original version of the novel as he composed it in 1911. The protagonist Eugene Witla, as well as the women he loves, emerge as very different characters than they appear in the 1915 edition and the ending takes a markedly different turn. Dreiser’s attention to female characters’ inner lives and their passions, sexual and otherwise, also renders them more comprehensible and sympathetic.
Long understood as the most autobiographical of Dreiser’s novels, this new edition suggests a younger, less assertive Dreiser whose mature ideas of self, masculinity, artistic achievement, and worldly success were still in the process of formation.
Clare Virginia Eby’s new edition brings to print for the first time Dreiser’s original version of the novel as he composed it in 1911. The protagonist Eugene Witla, as well as the women he loves, emerge as very different characters than they appear in the 1915 edition and the ending takes a markedly different turn. Dreiser’s attention to female characters’ inner lives and their passions, sexual and otherwise, also renders them more comprehensible and sympathetic.
Long understood as the most autobiographical of Dreiser’s novels, this new edition suggests a younger, less assertive Dreiser whose mature ideas of self, masculinity, artistic achievement, and worldly success were still in the process of formation.
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ISBN-13: | 9791222024745 |
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Publisher: | GAEditori |
Publication date: | 11/17/2022 |
Sold by: | StreetLib SRL |
Format: | eBook |
File size: | 3 MB |