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Babbitt. A novel by Sinclair Lewis. Sigurður Einarsson an Icelander.
Babbitt is a businessman, a smug, good-natured, loud-mouthed slave of habit. He is the balloon that always dances on top—unless it is punctured. This is the man Lewis chooses for himself.
for exploration and his description of a character.
Babbitts is so vivid and clear that he
becomes something else and more to the reader than
individual, he becomes a fragment of ourselves, a fragment of every person we have ever known. It cannot be said,
that the greatness of being grows in our eyes
of that, late man is named, after reading. Lewis's psychoanalysis is so sensitive that we feel he sees every little detail, so that nothing is missed. But although we feel little about the greatness,
we will still be warm
Babbitts, despite everything and anything.
The translator's language and penmanship
The book is well-known, and he has undeniably achieved a splendid translation of Babbitt (Stigandi 2nd edition 1944).
Babbitt is a businessman, a smug, good-natured, loud-mouthed slave of habit. He is the balloon that always dances on top—unless it is punctured. This is the man Lewis chooses for himself.
for exploration and his description of a character.
Babbitts is so vivid and clear that he
becomes something else and more to the reader than
individual, he becomes a fragment of ourselves, a fragment of every person we have ever known. It cannot be said,
that the greatness of being grows in our eyes
of that, late man is named, after reading. Lewis's psychoanalysis is so sensitive that we feel he sees every little detail, so that nothing is missed. But although we feel little about the greatness,
we will still be warm
Babbitts, despite everything and anything.
The translator's language and penmanship
The book is well-known, and he has undeniably achieved a splendid translation of Babbitt (Stigandi 2nd edition 1944).