Frank Norris

¿Frank Norris? ¿Frank Norris? Hummm… no, no me suena. Pero, al parecer vivió a principios del siglo 20, fue escritor y sus novelas más destacadas fueron McTeague, The Octopus, y The Pit. Los críticos lo señalan como racista y antisemita.

A continuación hablamos de Frank Norris, su racismo, y aclaramos el significado de naturalismo.

The Octopus

The Octopus: A Story of California es una novela de 1901, escrita por Frank Norris. The Octopus describe la industria del trigo en California, y el conflicto entre los agricultores y la compañía de trenes. Norris fue inspirado a escribir esta novela por el Central Pacific Railroad y la tragedia de Mussel Slough. En vocabulario buscamos: hauling, trudge, iron-hooped, straddling, abreast, grievance, bickerings, spout, watering trough.

 

Just after passing Caraher’s saloon, on the County Road that ran south from Bonneville, and that divided the Broderson ranch from that of Los Muertos, Presley was suddenly aware of the faint and prolonged blowing of a steam whistle that he knew must come from the railroad shops near the depot at Bonneville. In starting out from the ranch house that morning, he had forgotten his watch, and was now perplexed to know whether the whistle was blowing for twelve or for one o’clock. He hoped the former. Early that morning he had decided to make a long excursion through the neighbouring country, partly on foot and partly on his bicycle, and now noon was come already, and as yet he had hardly started. As he was leaving the house after breakfast, Mrs. Derrick had asked him to go for the mail at Bonneville, and he had not been able to refuse.