6/1/2023 0 Comments Novel an american tragedy![]() ![]() This is one of the many facts in Theodore Dreiser's An American Tragedy: A Documentary Volume, edited by Donald Pizer. An American Tragedy was placed sixteenth among the Modern Library's list of the "100 Best Novels" of the twentieth century. ![]() Essentially, the Father of Realism (read: naturalism) brooded over the story of Clyde Griffiths for many years, studying crimes birthed by the American Dream, and even writing six chapters of another "tragedy" before settling on the so-called "crime of the century" (there were several more such crimes in the twentieth century)-the 1906 "accidental" murder of Grace Brown by Chester Gillette. The "Genius," published in 1915 to the horror of its would-be censors, had been composed years earlier. It was a comeback book for Dreiser, who hadn't issued a novel in over ten years. It inspired the creation of a number of American tragedies-Richard Wright's Native Son (1940), Truman Capote's In Cold Blood (1966), and Norman Mailer's The Executioner's Song (1979), for example. Theodore Dreiser's An American Tragedy (1925) was a watershed book. Farmington Hills, Mich.: Gale Cengage Learning, 2011. Theodore Dreiser's An American Tragedy: A Documentary Volume, ed. ![]()
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