Work and Industrialization - 12. Klasse

Wir haben dazu öfter mal Steinbeck gelesen:
- Of Mice and Men: migrant workers, Great Depression (von Steinbeck geht eigentlich fast alles)
- River of Earth

Zitat

In the novel River of Earth, James Still explores the effect of industrialization on rural Kentucky in the early 1920's. Although Still is often viewed as a regional writer, the central theme of the novel is pervasive. By depicting a family divided between the life on a subsistence farm and life in a coal camp, he presents the choices posed to the Baldridge family as the result of industrialization. Although the novel is divided into three sections, there are only two distinct places in the novel, rural and urban. The struggle between the two localities is played out in a variety of ways.

Lief auch ganz gut.
- ganz aktuell: David Lodge "Nice Work" :

Zitat

His tongue caustic, and his take on British society provocative and funny, Lodge skewers virtually every aspect of Thatcherite Britain in this top-notch satirical novel, a sequel to Small World . Set in an industrial city in the Midlands, the story's protagonists are Vic Wilcox, managing director of a failing engineering firm, and Robyn Penrose, temporary lecturer in English lit at the University of Rummidge. Robyn is chosen to "shadow" Vic at the factory one day a week, as part of a program to effect a liaison between the university and local industry. A "trendy leftist feminist" with highfalutin views about the evils of industrial capitalism, Robyn looks down on Vic, whose education is scanty and whose lifestyle is diametrically opposed to hers.

Mein Favorit, aber sprachlich ordentlich knackig: sarkastisch, böse, hintenrum! Gut!