Fructele mâniei

by John Steinbeck, Dumitru Mazilu (Translator)

John Steinbeck surprinde destinele unor oameni obisnuiti, care lupta din rasputeri sa-si pastreze demnitatea in fata unei crize sociale si economice acute.
Nevoita sa-si paraseasca ferma din Oklahoma, familia Joad se alatura altor mii de emigranti si visurilor acestora de a deveni proprietarii unei bucati de pamint in California. Numai ca zilele si noptile petrecute pe drum duc la crearea unei noi societati, guvernate de reguli nescrise, de lideri alesi, de ura, violenta si, uneori, de conflicte singeroase.
Portret al disputei amare intre cei puternici si cei slabi, al unui barbat inversunat impotriva nedreptatii si al unei femei de un stoicism rar intilnit, Fructele miniei ramine un punct de reper pentru acel gen de literatura americana care reda ororile Marii Depresii, prin felul cum sondeaza esenta notiunilor de egalitate si dreptate in America.

Genres: Classics, Fiction, Historical Fiction, Literature, Novels, School, Historical

828 pages, Hardcover

First published April 14, 1939

About the author

John Ernst Steinbeck was an American writer. He won the 1962 Nobel Prize in Literature "for his realistic and imaginative writings, combining as they do sympathetic humor and keen social perception". He has been called "a giant of American letters."
During his writing career, he authored 33 books, with one book coauthored alongside Edward F. Ricketts, including 16 novels, six non-fiction books, and two collections of short stories. He is widely known for the comic novels Tortilla Flat (1935) and Cannery Row (1945), the multi-generation epic East of Eden (1952), and the novellas The Red Pony (1933) and Of Mice and Men (1937). The Pulitzer Prize–winning The Grapes of Wrath (1939) is considered Steinbeck's masterpiece and part of the American literary canon. By the 75th anniversary of its publishing date, it had sold 14 million copies.
Most of Steinbeck's work is set in central California, particularly in the Salinas Valley and the California Coast Ranges region. His works frequently explored the themes of fate and injustice, especially as applied to downtrodden or everyman protagonists.