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Imenno s "Glavnoĭ ulit͡sy" nachalasʹ vsemirnai͡a slava Sinklera Lʹi͡uisa (1885-1951), odnogo iz krupneĭshikh amerikanskikh prozaikov XX veka i pervogo amerikanskogo laureata Nobelevskoĭ premii po literature. Ėto masshtabnoe i iskli͡uchitelʹno tochnoe opisanie zhizni amerikanskogo "srednego klassa" s glubokim proniknoveniem v kharaktery i sudʹby geroev. T͡Sentralʹnyĭ obraz romana - molodai͡a vypusknit͡sa universiteta Kėrol, kotorai͡a vykhodit zamuzh za provint͡sialʹnogo vracha i poseli͡aetsi͡a v nebolʹshom gorodke, Glavnai͡a ulit͡sa kotorogo sluzhit metaforoĭ nravov i obraza zhizni "sredneĭ" Ameriki. Kėrol polna ėnergii i zhelanii͡a rastormoshitʹ razmerennoe do unylosti sushchestvovanie obitateleĭ goroda, no kak oderzhatʹ pobedu nad Glavnoĭ ulit͡seĭ?Podobnyĭ zdorovyĭ, osnovatelʹnyĭ i satiricheskiĭ podkhod do sikh por otsutstvoval v amerikanskoĭ obshchestvennoĭ mysli i literature. V kazhdoĭ strane estʹ svoi͡a Glavnai͡a ulit͡sa, kotorai͡a ostro nuzhdaetsi͡a v diagnoze, no Amerike vesʹma poschastlivilosʹ obresti v vas stolʹ pronit͡satelʹnogo i spravedlivogo issledovateli͡a. Dzhon GolsuorsiI͡A nikogda nichego ne pisal s bolʹshim uvlecheniem, chem "Glavnui͡u ulit͡su"… Nadei͡usʹ, chto ėta kniga perezhivet svoe vremi͡a. Sinkler Lʹi͡uis.

It was from Main Street that the worldwide fame of Sinclair Lewis (1885-1951), one of the greatest American novelists of the 20th century and the first American Nobel Prize winner in literature, began. This is a large-scale and extremely accurate description of the life of the American "middle class" with a deep insight into the characters and fates of the characters. The central image of the novel is a young university graduate, Carol, who marries a provincial doctor and settles in a small town whose main street serves as a metaphor for the mores and lifestyle of "middle" America. Carol is full of energy and desire to shake up the boring existence of the inhabitants of the city, but how to win over the Main Street?Such a healthy, thorough, and satirical approach has so far been absent from American public thought and literature. Every country has its own Main Street, which is in dire need of a diagnosis, but America is very lucky to find such an astute and fair researcher in you. John Galsworthy has never written anything with more passion than "Main Street"… I hope this book will outlive its time. Sinclair Lewis.