James Thomas Farrell ( Chicago , on 27 February as as 1904 – New York , 22 as August as 1979 ). American novelist and short story writer known for his portraits of the Irish lower classes in Chicago , through which he expressed, with an energetic naturalistic realism, his disagreement with the precariousness of social and economic conditions, responsible in his view for spiritual decline.
Summary
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- 1 Biography
- 1 Childhood and youth
- 2 Another stage of his life
- 3 Death
- 4 His work
- 5 Novels and essays
- 2 Sources
Biography
Childhood and youth
He studied at the University of Chicago and began to write in 1925 , led by a sociological conception of literature , according to which human destinies are inevitably shaped by the context in which they develop.
The prose of Farell is direct and frank, within the naturalistic tradition and giving prominence to scathing detail, delving into the characters. Part of his work shows the labors and miseries of the Chicago working class in the so-called Depression era “, through a bitter, unsentimental style.
Another stage of his life
He also wrote multiple collections of short stories, prints associated with his idea of showing the typology of his urban characters.
He published a total of twenty-five novels, and several volumes of essays. He also dabbled in discussions about the timeliness of Marxist orthodoxy in trials of literature.
Death
He died on August 22 , 1979 in New York .
His work
- In 1932 he published the young Lonigan, the first volume of a trilogy named after its protagonist ( Studs Lonigan ) and planned to describe the decline of a boy influenced by the moral and economic environment of the city in which he lives.
- Later, in another series, he would show the reverse of the medal: a secondary character from the previous trilogy, in possession of the new values that allow facing the negative guidelines of society.
- In 1953 he published one of his most recognized books, The face of time.
- An American Dream Girl( 1950 ), where they are thrown into loneliness, despair and death: a dark portrait of the man on the street in the days of Farrell’s youth, with a cynical tone and naturalistic excess that to sometimes he was criticized.
- Notes on literary criticism( 1936 ).
Novels and essays
- Father and son( 1940 ).
- My angry days( 1943 ).
- Reflections at Fifty( 1954 ).
