Sinclair Lewis citáty
Sinclair Lewis
Dátum narodenia: 7. február 1885
Dátum úmrtia: 10. január 1951
Ďalšie mená: Lyuis Garri Sinkler, ਸਿਨਕਲੇਅਰ ਲੁਈਸ
Sinclair Lewis bol americký spisovateľ, a prvý Američan, ktorý získal Nobelovu cenu za literatúru . V roku 1926 získal Pulitzerovu cenu za román Arrowsmith.
Citáty Sinclair Lewis
„Sinclair Lewis was a crypto-sentimentalist and a slovenly writer who managed a slight falsification of life in order to move the reader.“
James Gould Cozzens, "Books: The Hermit of Lambertville", Time, 2 September 1957
„I have defined the hundred per cent American as ninety-nine per cent an idiot.“
George Bernard Shaw on Sinclair Lewis receiving the Nobel Prize (1930)
„What was once Sinclair Lewis is buried in no ground. Even in life he was fully alive only in his writing. He lives in public libraries from Maine to California, in worn copies in the bookshelves of women from small towns who, in their girlhood, imagined themselves as Carol Kennicotts, and of medical men who, as youths, were inspired by Martin Arrowsmith.“
Dorothy Thompson, his ex-wife, in "The Boy From Sauk Center" in The Atlantic (November 1960)
„His central characters are the pioneer, the doctor, the scientist, the businessman, and the feminist. The appeal of his best fiction lies in the opposition between his idealistic protagonists and an array of fools, charlatans, and scoundrels - evangelists, editorialists, pseudo-artists, cultists, and boosters.“
Martin Light in The Quixotic Vision of Sinclair Lewis (1975)
„There was much conversation, most of which sounded like the rest of it. ~ Ch. 14“
— Sinclair Lewis, kniha Arrowsmith
Arrowsmith (1925)
„He is the only real revolutionary, the authentic scientist, because he alone knows how liddle he knows.
He must be heartless. He lives in a cold, clear light. Yet dis is a funny t'ing: really, in private, he is not cold nor heartless—so much less cold than the Professional Optimists. ~ Gottlieb, Ch. 26“
— Sinclair Lewis, kniha Arrowsmith
Arrowsmith (1925)
„Perhaps I am a crank, Martin. There are many who hate me. There are plots against me—oh, you t'ink I imagine it, but you shall see! I make many mistakes. But one thing I keep always pure: the religion of a scientist.“
— Sinclair Lewis, kniha Arrowsmith
Arrowsmith (1925)
Kontext: Perhaps I am a crank, Martin. There are many who hate me. There are plots against me—oh, you t'ink I imagine it, but you shall see! I make many mistakes. But one thing I keep always pure: the religion of a scientist.
To be a scientist—it is not just a different job, so that a man should choose between being a scientist and being an explorer or a bond-salesman or a physician or a king or a farmer. It is a tangle of ver-y obscure emotions, like mysticism, or wanting to write poetry; it makes its victim all different from the good normal man. The normal man, he does not care much what he does except that he should eat and sleep and make love. But the scientist is intensely religious—he is so religious that he will not accept quarter-truths, because they are an insult to his faith.
He wants that everything should be subject to inexorable laws. He is equal opposed to the capitalists who t'ink their silly money-grabbing is a system, and to liberals who t'ink man is not a fighting animal; he takes both the American booster and the European aristocrat, and he ignores all their blithering. Ignores it! All of it! He hates the preachers who talk their fables, but he iss not too kindly to the anthropologists and historians who can only make guesses, yet they have the nerf to call themselves scientists! Oh, yes, he is a man that all nice good-natured people should naturally hate! ~ Gottlieb, Ch. 26
