Theodore Dreiser (1871 - 1945) «Art - is the nectar of the soul, gathered in the writings and throes. »
Theodore Dreiser - American writer. Born in Indiana (USA). In 18921895 was a reporter in Chicago. One of the first published literary works of Dreiser - essay "Artistic quarter of New York: Literary and artistic refuge in Brockville. " Before the advent of his first novel, Dreiser published 42 articles and several poems. He said in an interview for the directory "Who` s who in America ", that he had written two books: " A study of famous contemporaries, "and" Poem. " Usually bibliography begins with Dreiser's novel "Sister Carrie. " This work, he continued the tradition of radical petty-bourgeois realist American writers of the last century, but the decline of the movement. The novel was met with criticism and society are extremely hostile as "immoral" work. Dreiser gave a realistic image of the girl acting against accepted moral views. Only in 1911, Dreiser published his second novel - "Jenny Gerhard, " which develops theme, "Sister Carrie. "
Dreiser began his monumental "Trilogy of Desire". At its foundation are laid tale of millionaire Charles Yerkes. The hero of "Trilogy" - Frank Kupervud, Dreiser shows how bourgeois and commercial environment surrounding the Kupervuda, from childhood shapes the psychology of businessman in him and the purchaser, to whom all means are good if they help to attain power and wealth. In the novel "Titan" Dreiser's life unfolds Kupervuda in Chicago, where the expanded base cycle repeats its activities in Philadelphia. "Trilogy of Desire" - a significant work of American and European literature of the XX century. With exceptional graphic outlines Dreiser force life and customs of the financial environment, the spiritual emptiness of the big bourgeoisie, its purely physiological treatment of women, predatory approach to society and political unscrupulousness. . In his novel "An American Tragedy" Dreiser displays the average, typical of the petty bourgeoisie, the American youth Griffiths, poorly educated, frivolous, weakwilled. The essence of tragedy Griffiths, ends its life in the electric chair - his social maladjustment to reality, combined with the desire to advance and occupy a unique position, enter a bourgeois circles. Dreiser - the artist-naturalist. He builds his works on the enormous material of observation and experience. His art - the of precision to thoroughness