Frasi di Sinclair Lewis
Sinclair Lewis
Data di nascita: 7. Febbraio 1885
Data di morte: 10. Gennaio 1951
Altri nomi:Lyuis Garri Sinkler, ਸਿਨਕਲੇਅਰ ਲੁਈਸ
Harry Sinclair Lewis è stato un romanziere e drammaturgo statunitense. Fu il primo statunitense a vincere il Premio Nobel per la letteratura nel 1930, "per la sua arte descrittiva vigorosa e grafica e per la sua abilità nel creare, con arguzia e spirito, nuove tipologie di personaggi". Le sue opere sono conosciute per le loro visioni sagaci e critiche della società statunitense e dei valori capitalistici. Il suo stile è, allo stesso tempo, comico, satirico e tuttavia comprensivo.
Autori simili
Michail Bulgakov53
scrittore e drammaturgo russo
Peter Handke12
romanziere e drammaturgo austriaco
Thomas Bernhard68
scrittore, romanziere e drammaturgo austriaco
Caleb Carr3
romanziere statunitense
Evgenij Aleksandrovič Evtušenko5
poeta e romanziere russo
Neil Simon4
drammaturgo e sceneggiatore statunitense
William Goldman15
scrittore e sceneggiatore statunitense
Carlo Tito Dalbono3
storico, romanziere e critico d'arte italiano
Arthur Miller7
drammaturgo, scrittore e pubblicista statunitense
Leopold von Sacher-Masoch10
giornalista, romanziere e scrittore austriacoFrasi Sinclair Lewis
„Io non sapevo che la Bibbia fosse poesia! Pensavo che non fosse altro che religione!“
— Sinclair Lewis
da Opera d'arte, traduzione di Mario Borsa, Arnoldo Mondadori Editore, 1954, p. 24
„I have faith in Faith, I have reverence for all true Reverence.“
— Sinclair Lewis
Context: I have faith in Faith, I have reverence for all true Reverence. ~ Ch. 59
„There was much conversation, most of which sounded like the rest of it.“
— Sinclair Lewis
Context: There was much conversation, most of which sounded like the rest of it. ~ Ch. 14
„It came to him merely to run away was folly, because he could never run away from himself.“
— Sinclair Lewis
Context: It came to him merely to run away was folly, because he could never run away from himself. ~ Ch. 25
„I don't believe in fear of divine vengeance, and I do believe in justice and equality....“
— Sinclair Lewis
Context: I don't believe in fear of divine vengeance, and I do believe in justice and equality.... ~ Ch. 57
„I hate your city. It has standardized all the beauty out of life. It is one big railroad station—with all the people taking tickets for the best cemeteries.“
— Sinclair Lewis
Context: I hate your city. It has standardized all the beauty out of life. It is one big railroad station—with all the people taking tickets for the best cemeteries. ~ Ch. 7
„It did seem sounder to build houses which he could build than to teach children a gospel which he did not altogether understand in a Sioux language which he could not quite speak.“
— Sinclair Lewis
Context: It did seem sounder to build houses which he could build than to teach children a gospel which he did not altogether understand in a Sioux language which he could not quite speak. He reflected, 'If I could put over some kind of equality for Mark Shadrock and Black Wolf, that would be enough heavenly progress for me.' ~ Ch. 53
„Is it possible that nobody has ever known—that there never has been a completely civilized man, and won't be for another thousand years?“
— Sinclair Lewis
Context: He fretted that he did not know anything. He sighed, 'I have sought the Kingdom of God a little, the Squire has sought it terribly, but we haven't even a map, and after what I saw this afternoon, I know the Sioux are as barbarous as we are. Is it possible that nobody has ever known—that there never has been a completely civilized man, and won't be for another thousand years? ~ Ch. 33
„He prayed, 'Lord God, let us be the kind of Christians that you would be if you were a Christian'.“
— Sinclair Lewis
Context: He prayed, 'Lord God, let us be the kind of Christians that you would be if you were a Christian'. ~ Ch. 24
„Indians, of course, have no 'theology,' and indeed no word for the system of credulity in which the white priests arrange for God, who must be entirely bewildered by it, a series of excuses for his failures.“
— Sinclair Lewis
Context: Indians, of course, have no 'theology,' and indeed no word for the system of credulity in which the white priests arrange for God, who must be entirely bewildered by it, a series of excuses for his failures. ~ Ch. 41
„I must say I'm not very fond of oratory that's so full of energy it hasn't any room for facts.“
— Sinclair Lewis
Context: I must say I'm not very fond of oratory that's so full of energy it hasn't any room for facts. ~ Martin, Ch. 22
