Author: John Steinbeck
Translator: Seong-ho Lee
Publisher: Beomusa
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About This Book
Novel by John Steinbeck, published in 1952.
It is a symbolic recreation of the biblical story of Cain and Abel woven into a
history of California's Salinas Valley. With East of Eden Steinbeck hoped to
reclaim his standing as a major novelist, but his broad depictions of good and
evil come at the expense of subtlety in characterization and plot and it was not
a critical success.
Spanning the period between the American Civil War and the end of World War
I, the novel highlights the conflicts of two generations of brothers; the first
being the kind, gentle Adam Trask and his wild brother Charles. Adam
eventually marries Cathy Ames, an evil, manipulative, and beautiful prostitute;
she betrays him, joining Charles on the very night of their wedding. Later,
after giving birth to twin boys, she shoots Adam and leaves him to return to her
former profession. In the shadow of this heritage Adam raises their sons, the
fair-haired, winning, yet intractable Aron, and the dark, clever Caleb. This
second generation of brothers vie for their father's approval. In bitterness
Caleb reveals the truth about their mother to Aron, who then joins the army and
is killed in France.
-- From "Merriam-Webster's Encyclopedia of Literature"
About The Author
No writer is more quintessentially American than John Steinbeck. Born in
1902 in Salinas, California, Steinbeck attended Stanford University before
working at a series of mostly blue-collar jobs and embarking on his literary
career. Profoundly committed to social progress, he used his writing to raise
issues of labor exploitation and the plight of the common man, penning some of
the greatest American novels of the twentieth century and winning such
prestigious awards as the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award. He
received the Nobel Prize in 1962, "for his realistic and imaginative writings,
combining as they do sympathetic humour and keen social perception." Today, more
than thirty years after his death, he remains one of America's greatest writers
and cultural figures.
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