Сестра Керри. Дженни Герхардт

Teodor Draĭzer - znamenityĭ amerikanskiĭ prozaik, publit͡sist i obshchestvennyĭ dei͡atelʹ. Ego proizvedenii͡a, zatragivai͡ushchie ostrye sot͡sialʹnye problemy, polʹzovalisʹ i prodolzhai͡ut polʹzovatʹsi͡a ogromnym uspekhom u chitateleĭ vo vsem mire. Literaturnym debi͡utom pisateli͡a stala "Sestra Kerri" (1900) - istorii͡a vozvyshenii͡a glavnoĭ geroini, i͡unoĭ provint͡sialki Karoliny Miber, dostignutogo t͡senoĭ mnogochislennykh nravstvennykh kompromissov, i niskhozhdenii͡a upravli͡ai͡ushchego prestizhnym barom Dzhordzha Gerstvuda na zhiznennoe dno. Po slovam Sinklera Lʹi͡uisa, ėtot roman "vorvalsi͡a v zatkhlui͡u atmosferu meshchanskoĭ Ameriki, kak volʹnyĭ zapadnyĭ veter", "osvobodiv amerikanskui͡u literaturu ot viktorianskoĭ… robosti i pretent͡sioznosti i napraviv ee po puti chestnogo, smelogo i strastnogo izobrazhenii͡a zhizni". Vtoroĭ roman Draĭzera, "Dzhenni Gerkhardt" (1911), rasskazyvai͡ushchiĭ o sudʹbe devushki iz bednoĭ semʹi, chʹi͡a zhiznʹ polna dramatichnykh rasstavaniĭ i tragicheskikh utrat, sposobstvoval utverzhdenii͡u ego reputat͡sii kak vydai͡ushchegosi͡a avtora, do i posle kotorogo amerikanskai͡a literatura, po slovam izvestnogo zhurnalista Genri Luisa Menkena, "otlichaetsi͡a pochti tak zhe, kak biologii͡a do i posle Darvina".

Theodore Dreiser is a famous American novelist, publicist and public figure. His works dealing with acute social problems have enjoyed and continue to enjoy great success with readers all over the world. The literary debut of the writer was "Sister Kerry" (1900) - the story of the rise of the main character, a young provincial Caroline Meeber, achieved at the cost of numerous moral compromises, and the descent of the manager of the prestigious bar George Hurstwood to the bottom of life. According to Sinclair Lewis, this novel "burst into the musty atmosphere of middle-class America like a free west wind", "freeing American literature from Victorian ... timidity and pretentiousness and guiding it along the path of an honest, bold and passionate depiction of life." Dreiser's second novel, "Jenny Gerhardt" (1911), which tells about the fate of a girl from a poor family whose life is full of dramatic breakups and tragic losses, helped to establish his reputation as an outstanding author, before and after which American literature, according to the famous journalist Henry Louis Mencken, "differs almost as much as biology before and after Darwin."