Erskine Caldwell Libri
17 dicembre 1903 – 11 aprile 1987
Erskine Caldwell è stato un autore americano i cui scritti si sono concentrati sulla povertà, il razzismo e i problemi sociali nel Sud della sua terra natale. Le sue descrizioni schiette della vita nella regione gli hanno valso il plauso della critica, sebbene il suo lavoro si sia rivelato controverso tra i suoi concittadini del Sud, che ritenevano stesse esponendo la regione alla derisione. Lo stile di Caldwell è caratterizzato dalla sua cruda onestà e dalla capacità di smascherare le tensioni sottostanti nella società americana. La sua scrittura rimane rilevante per la sua analisi delle sfide sociali durature.
A semi-autobiography of the childhood of Alan Kent, from early manhood to artist. The text includes brief, graphic sketches which illustrate the struggle against various hardening effects of a brutal and seemingly indifferent world.
Focusing on his journey as a writer, the memoir highlights Erskine Caldwell's intense dedication and the challenges he faced during his early career. It delves into his struggles to discover his unique voice, alongside his diverse experiences from arduous labor to prestigious roles in radio, film, and journalism. Caldwell's narrative provides a vivid account of his formative years, emphasizing the perseverance required to become one of the most prominent and controversial authors of his era.
In 1965, more than five decades after his forced estrangement from his black boyhood friend Bisco, Erskine Caldwell set out across the South to find him. On the journey, which took him from South Carolina to Arkansas, Caldwell spoke to many people on the pretense of asking Bisco's a black college professor in Atlanta, Georgia; a white real estate salesman in Demopolis, Alabama; a black sharecropper in the Yazoo Basin of the Mississippi Delta; a transplanted white New England housewife in Bastrop, Louisiana; and others. Eighteen of those conversations, with Caldwell's commentary, make up this book.Caldwell made his journey at the zenith of the civil rights movement. Bisco, whom Caldwell never found, becomes a symbol for the South's race problem, to which he sought an answer in the emotions, experiences, and attitudes of those he encountered.
Set during the Depression in the depleted farmlands surrounding Augusta, Georgia, this is the story of the Lesters, a family of destitute white sharecroppers. Debased by their poverty, they fear they will descend to a lower rung on the social ladder than the black families who live near them. číst celé
Erskine Caldwell's work captures the stark realities of Southern life, depicting characters like impoverished sharecroppers and repressed farmwives with unflinching honesty. His unique vision sparked intense reactions, earning him both acclaim from literary figures such as F. Scott Fitzgerald and criticism for his provocative themes. Despite being labeled a sensationalist, Caldwell was once celebrated as "America's most popular author." Today, however, his reputation has faded, leaving him in the shadows of literary history.
