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Only a few months ago I reread some of Steinbeck's books. I was deeply moved by The Crapes of Wrath and delighted by Cannery Row. Probably compassion, humor and good characterization are unsophisticated or passé to the writer of your Steinbeck article [Nov. 2], but a few of us still enjoy them. There are also some of us, incredibly enough, who do not worship at the shrine of Hemingway...
Surely the fact that The Grapes of Wrath has survived its time and place, together with the fact that his books have been translated into 33 foreign languages is proof enough that Steinbeck's work has the power and popularity that very few of the other American winners have been privileged to enjoy...
...seems to me a minor writer with a fairly good comic talent and strong protest in a few books." Lynn mentioned two novels from the '30's. In Dubious Battle and Steinbeck's most famous work, Grapes of Wrath. The Nobel Prize, however, was ostensibly awarded for The Winter of Our Discontent, published last year and panned by critics...
...best-known work, The Grapes of Wrath (1939), the bitter saga of the Okies, was powerful as a tract but limited as fiction, scarcely able to survive its time and place. Even in less dated novels. Steinbeck's characters are not, as Edmund Wilson once wrote, "really quite human beings: they are cunning little living dolls that amuse us as we might be amused by pet guinea pigs, squirrels or rabbits...
Trito Travelogue. To U.S. critics, Winter, an allegory of the affluent society, seemed only a thin, high-pitched echo of the early and genuine social protest that filled The Grapes of Wrath. The judges' decision was also reportedly influenced by Steinbeck's latest, bestselling Travels with Charley, which manages to recapture the banality, mawkish sentiment and pseudo philosophy that have marked Steinbeck at his worst...