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Sister Carrie / Jennie Gerhardt / Twelve Men

door Theodore Dreiser

Andere auteurs: Richard Lehan (Redacteur)

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Best remembered for being one of the leading figures in the school of fiction writing known as naturalism, American author Theodore Dreiser got his professional start as a journalist, and he brings his love of research and detail to this collection of biographical essays celebrating the lives and contributions of 12 people who influenced him.

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Sister Carrie:

Theodore Dreiser is one of those classic authors of the cannon of literature that doesn’t get much attention these days – too many commentators over the years have picked at his style and his extremely detailed story-telling. But Dreiser’s near microscopic attention to his character’s shifting inner lives is a refreshing foil to the cardboard cutouts that so many writers offer.

In [Sister Carrie], Dreiser recounts the story of Carrie Meeber and George Hurstwood in the Chicago of the Industrial Revolution. Carrie moves to the big city for a factory job and then rises to become a high-paid actress. Hurstwood’s life takes the opposite trajectory, leaving him destitute on the streets.

Dreiser was among the first authors to describe what he perceived as a natural reality, with his characters moving through life without their fates tied to the consequences of their choices. What’s alluring about this naturalist perspective is that we see our own lives reflected in it – sometimes good people don’t receive good in their lives while bad people are rewarded for bad behavior. But the real genius of Dreiser is in his deep exploration of the inner workings of these character’s minds. The complexity of their choices and behavior echoes the reality of a real human mind.

Bottom Line: Complex and extremely realistic characters without any morality play at work.

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This was my introduction to the world of Theodore Dreiser more than forty years ago when I was devouring American literature in high school. His journalistic prose style, while sometimes prolix, was just right for me and I read his novels about Frank Cowperwood and the massive An American Tragedy. But before Clyde Griffiths' downfall there was the story of Sister Carrie, published on November 8, 1900 to a prolonged uproar, that riveted me as she succumbed to the advances of vastly more experienced men. A Pamela some 150 years on, Carrie also confronts temptation, making the leap from her small town to Chicago and, feeling that she had few options, into the calculating arms of the travelling salesman, Drouet. After overcoming her doubts about sharing the salesman’s apartment, she stands before the window looking into her "never wholly convincing” conscience:
"It was only an average little conscience, a thing which represented the world, her past environment, habit, convention, in a confused way. With it, the voice of the people was only the voice of God.
“Oh, thou failure!” said the voice.
“Why?” she questioned.
“Look at those about,” came the whispered answer. “Look at those who are good. How would they scorn to do what you have done. Look at the good girls; how will they draw away from such as you when they know you have been weak. You had not tried before you failed.”
Carrie moves up the social ladder to the wealthy George Hurstwood. Fleeing an unhappy marriage he takes her to New York City. There things take a turn, for while the book is of course about Carrie herself as the story goes on, it becomes more of Hurstwood’s tale. Yes, Carrie is still the force driving it, but we are given two separate lives—as Carrie manages to thrive, Hurstwood becomes homeless, helpless. The handling of these characters and their tragic lives makes this a great book by one of America's best writers. ( )
  jwhenderson | Nov 19, 2011 |
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