Elmer Gantry
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Elmer Gantry
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Seslendiren:
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Anthony Heald
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Sinclair Lewis
Elmer Gantry is the portrait of a silver-tongued evangelist who rises to power within his church, yet lives a life of hypocrisy, sensuality, and ruthless self-indulgence.
The title character starts out as a greedy, shallow, philandering Baptist minister, turns to evangelism, and eventually becomes the leader of a large Methodist congregation. Throughout the novel, Gantry encounters fellow religious hypocrites. Although often exposed as a fraud, Gantry is never fully discredited.
When Elmer Gantry was first published in 1927, it created a public furor. Now it is considered a landmark in American literature and one of the most penetrating studies of hypocrisy in modern literature. The novel also represents the evangelistic activity of America in the 1920s and people’s attitudes toward it.
©1927 , © renewed 1954 by Michael Lewis. © 1970 by New American Library (a division of Penguin Books) (P)2008 Blackstone Audio, Inc.Eleştirmen yorumları
“Elmer Gantry is charismatic without being likable, which makes voicing him a tricky business for Anthony Heald…Heald’s pacing, his accents, [and] his narrative drive are all excellent.”
(AudioFile)“What always made Lewis’s novels richer than mere satire was the affection he so clearly felt even for the people and institutions he was most eager to expose. As awful as Gantry is, we can’t suppress a sneaking liking for him, and neither can his author…So much a product of its own historic moment, it turns out to be a book for our time as well, and probably for all times.”
(Brooke Allen, author of Twentieth-Century Attitudes)“The background of Elmer Gantry is the religious activity of America in evangelistic cirles and the attitudes of the nineteen twenties toward it. The religious life in the United States had fallen into a condition of listless and at the same time enthusiastic decay…What the Lewis novel pictures, in part, is the confusion of…the material and the spiritual and the consequent corruption of both.”
(Mark Schorer, author of Sinclair Lewis: An American Life)excellently read
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BTW, listen for the satirical self criticism toward the end of the novel.
Amazing use of description and dialogue
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An enthralling novel which by definition proves the power of such ‘spiritual’ rhetoric, even when out of the mouths of snakes.
Read so brilliantly by Anthony Heald that it was impossible not to have sympathy with the fools who fall for the protagonists bilious drivel.
A commentary on the self-immolating nature of a shallow culture and the deep hypocrisy of so many of its people.
The parallels of this 1927 novel with 2026 are painfully breathtaking.
Was it ever thus? Is this a commentary on the US or on all people? On so-called organized Christian religion or on all forms of societal hierarchy and morality? On the impossibility of truth in the hands of slippery humanity?
The tawdry speeches are so well written (and acted here) that it is impossible not to be simultaneously aghast and excited by them.
Even a reader distanced by time, nationality and purported intelligence can easily see how attractive the entreaties of such erudite snake oil salesmen can be! No one is safe!
The dark arts of marketing, so central to capitalism and so elevated by the US in the 20c, are now in the mainstream of politics, business and culture all across the world. And we are all the worse for it..
100 years later and the US is still in thrall to hucksters -
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I didn't feel that it aged much.
Worth listening to.
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The sheer despicability of Gantry kept me reading (what will he do next?) - though I winced at the amount of 'collateral', of human beings used, betrayed and abandoned as Gantry builds his career of lies. He manages to control his desire for a smoke and a drink, at least for most of the time, since many in his church think of these habits as the gateway to Hell, but he has more trouble with lust, even when married. Every woman is adorable until he's had her, after which he starts to find her irritating. He has so little self-knowledge that he never gains insight into this pattern. His friends, too, are disposable.
Anthony Heald is a terrific reader. I can't imagine this being done better. Since listening to Lewis, I've found two marvellous new narrators - new to me, anyway - Anthony Heald and Grover Gardner, and will be looking out for their work in future.
A gripping story, still relevant, brilliantly read
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