Mr Coleman what an excellent talk. I appreciate your thoughts and wit. As a 51 year old male here in the UK I’m ashamed to say just discovered Lewis and Main St. What a discovery, still reads fresh today
Thanks for this! Under the pinched circumstances--less than an hour--you do a great job of covering many aspects of his career as well as his major works and a few of his minor ones. This is very helpful to me. I'd note that, with respect to the way topical (e.g. sociological/cultural, political, scientific, historical) interests of their day drove so much of their work, Lewis reminds me a lot of his contemporaries Upton Sinclair and, though across the sea and writing in a different vein, HG Wells. Perhaps one reason he isn't read as much today is because his work is so closely connected to the 1920s? (To me, Sinclair's writing about sex and sexual desire in Babbit and Main Street feels constrained. But the mores and taboos of mainstream publishing were much more conservative then, and so it's likely that he had to tread lightly where that was concerned.) His work feels a little dusty, but it is good and I agree that Lewis deserves continued readership. Mr Coleman does a good job emphasizing how many of Lewis's books' core themes still resonate today. Only thing I would've liked to know a little more of was who Lewis was as a person--what was his personality like? This is touched on here and there, but not enough to give me a sense on the sort of man he was. I'll definitely be reading his Nobel Prize speech though. Thanks for the thoughtful overview and discussion!!
It is incredible that in the 21st century, Lewis' readers feel that the author is a misanthrope, when from a distance - I am from Venezuela and I finished reading the novel - it is perfectly clear how petty the Yankee can be.
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I'm literally ordering several of his books right now and I'll read them over the next few weeks. Thank you for this video
Mr Coleman what an excellent talk. I appreciate your thoughts and wit. As a 51 year old male here in the UK I’m ashamed to say just discovered Lewis and Main St. What a discovery, still reads fresh today
Thanks for this! Under the pinched circumstances--less than an hour--you do a great job of covering many aspects of his career as well as his major works and a few of his minor ones. This is very helpful to me. I'd note that, with respect to the way topical (e.g. sociological/cultural, political, scientific, historical) interests of their day drove so much of their work, Lewis reminds me a lot of his contemporaries Upton Sinclair and, though across the sea and writing in a different vein, HG Wells. Perhaps one reason he isn't read as much today is because his work is so closely connected to the 1920s? (To me, Sinclair's writing about sex and sexual desire in Babbit and Main Street feels constrained. But the mores and taboos of mainstream publishing were much more conservative then, and so it's likely that he had to tread lightly where that was concerned.) His work feels a little dusty, but it is good and I agree that Lewis deserves continued readership. Mr Coleman does a good job emphasizing how many of Lewis's books' core themes still resonate today.
Only thing I would've liked to know a little more of was who Lewis was as a person--what was his personality like? This is touched on here and there, but not enough to give me a sense on the sort of man he was. I'll definitely be reading his Nobel Prize speech though. Thanks for the thoughtful overview and discussion!!
Starting to read Main Street right now! Hoping for a great read; Got the Barnes & Noble edition.
Love all his books, on Kingsblood Royal now
My favorite book
It is incredible that in the 21st century, Lewis' readers feel that the author is a misanthrope, when from a distance - I am from Venezuela and I finished reading the novel - it is perfectly clear how petty the Yankee can be.
1.Question Authority;. 2. State the obvious;. 3, Never say Never.