Babbitt -

Sinclair Lewis

Signet Classics / New American Library

1961

327 páginas

10h 54m

ISBN-13: 9780451500915

Português Brasileiro

With his portrait of George F. Babbitt, the conniving, prosperous real-estate man from Zenith, Sinclair Lewis created one of the ugliest, but most convincing, figures in American fiction - the total conformist. Babbitt's demons are power in his community and the self-esteem he can only receive from others. In his attempts to reconcile these aspirations, he is loyal to whoever serves his need of the moment: time and again he proves an opportunist in business practice and in domestic affairs. Outwardly he conforms with 'zip and zowie,' is a 'big booster' before the public eye; inwardly he converges day by day upon the utter emptiness of his soul - too filled with rationalizations and sentimentality to sense his own corruption....consummate expression to the glibness and irresponsibility of the hardened, professional social climber.H.G Wells said of this novel: "I wish I could have written Babbitt"

Resenhas (19)

4 (Muito bom)

um livro fantástico, um relato simples de um membro da classe média norte-americana, com seus vícios, desejos, ambições e angústias.
Sinclair Lewis tornou-se um expoente na literatura de seu país po quebrar regras, por ter sido o primeiro a expor as pessoas de seu país, como nenhum outro escritor havia feito até então.