El resumen: Babbitt

 ¿Cuál es el verdadero sentido de la vida, se pregunta Sinclair Lewis en su novela Babbitt? ¿Hay algo más que debemos descubrir en nuestro interior, aparte del dinero, las relaciones sociales, el estatus? Babbitt se puede leer totalmente gratis en internet.

Más abajo ponemos el resumen de Babbitt y hablamos sobre el sueño americano y relacionado con esto: el excepcionalismo, en Estados Unidos. En vocabulario encontramos boosterism.

Y encontramos una foto de una de las mujeres más bellas de todos los tiempos, y parte de esta cultura norteamericana de la que estamos hablando. También ponemos una foto de una fábrica de autos. Fijáte.

 

Babbitt

Babbitt

Babbitt fue publicada en 1922 y es una crítica a la sociedad americana. Babbitt fue esencial para que Sinclair Lewis ganara el Premio Nobel en 1930…

There was nothing of the giant in the aspect of the man who was beginning to awaken on the sleeping-porch of a Dutch Colonial house in that residential district of Zenith known as Floral Heights.

His name was George F. Babbitt. He was forty-six years old now, in April, 1920, and he made nothing in particular, neither butter nor shoes nor poetry, but he was quick in the calling of selling houses for more than people could afford to pay. His large head was pink, his brown hair thin and dry.

His face was babyish in sleep, despite his wrinkles and the red spectacle-dents on the slopes of his nose. He was not fat but he was exceedingly well fed; his cheeks were solid, and the unroughened hand which lay helpless upon the khaki-colored blanket was slightly puffy. He seemed prosperous, extremely married and unromantic; and altogether unromantic appeared this sleeping-porch, which looked on one sizable elm, two respectable grass-lands, a cement driveway, and a corrugated iron garage. Yet Babbitt was again dreaming of the fairy child, a dream more romantic than scarlet pagodas by a silver sea.