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Babbitt (nobel Prize in Literature)
General Fiction巴比特（诺贝尔文学奖大系）
(us) Sinclair Lewis
"Babbitt" is the representative work of American novelist Sinclair Lewis. It is a novel that reflects the life of urban businessmen during the prosperous period of American commercial culture. The protagonist Babbitt is a successful real estate businessman who lives a prosperous but ordinary middle-class life. However, he is attacked by emptiness and tries to find another "real life". To this end, he went out to roam, tried to live a cynical life, and even became infected with revolutionary sentiments. But Babbitt did not have the courage to bear the ensuing social neglect, so he re-invested in family life and business career. At the end of the novel, Babbitt placed his hope on his son. This novel not only creates a typical businessman image "Bobbitt", but also expresses all aspects of the American business culture in the 1820s in a comic style, which has the dual value of cultural observation and artistic appreciation.
"Babbitt" is the representative work of American novelist Sinclair Lewis. It is a novel that reflects the life of urban businessmen during the prosperous period of American commercial culture. The protagonist Babbitt is a successful real estate businessman who lives a prosperous but ordinary middle-class life. However, he is attacked by emptiness and tries to find another "real life". To this end, he went out to roam, tried to live a cynical life, and even became infected with revolutionary sentiments. But Babbitt did not have the courage to bear the ensuing social neglect, so he re-invested in family life and business career. At the end of the novel, Babbitt placed his hope on his son. This novel not only creates a typical businessman image "Bobbitt", but also expresses all aspects of the American business culture in the 1820s in a comic style, which has the dual value of cultural observation and artistic appreciation.
Babbitt (collected Works of the Nobel Prize in Literature)
General Fiction巴比特（诺贝尔文学奖文集）
(us) Sinclair Lewis
The protagonist, George Follansby Babbitt, is a prosperous real estate agent in Zenith. The author takes a cross-section of Babbitt's life and depicts a genre painting of urban life in the American Midwest in the 1920s with vivid and concise writing, bright colors, and witty style, vividly portraying the representative figures of the middle-class bourgeoisie. Although Zenis is a fictional name, it has typical meaning and can be regarded as any city in the United States. In that highly commercialized capitalist society, everything, including the products of human spiritual civilization, are reduced to commodities. Doctors, lawyers, priests, poets and scholars have become wage laborers paid for by the bourgeoisie. There is no other connection between people, only naked interests and ruthless "cash transactions."
The protagonist, George Follansby Babbitt, is a prosperous real estate agent in Zenith. The author takes a cross-section of Babbitt's life and depicts a genre painting of urban life in the American Midwest in the 1920s with vivid and concise writing, bright colors, and witty style, vividly portraying the representative figures of the middle-class bourgeoisie. Although Zenis is a fictional name, it has typical meaning and can be regarded as any city in the United States. In that highly commercialized capitalist society, everything, including the products of human spiritual civilization, are reduced to commodities. Doctors, lawyers, priests, poets and scholars have become wage laborers paid for by the bourgeoisie. There is no other connection between people, only naked interests and ruthless "cash transactions."