
Now, many years have been passed from creating great and indelible books such as “The Grapes of Wrath”, “The old man and the sea”, “The sound and the fury” and today among enormous of young and middle age American authors, no one can or wants to dream becoming another” Hemingwey”, or follow the method of “Faulkner” and “Steinbeck” in a more modern and dynamic way.
However, in this field, talking about dreams and wishes of young John Steinbeck and remembering happy promising ending of “The Grapes of Wrath” is funny and sad.
Therefore, if among today American authors, no one can or wants to be another Hemingwey, to know lonely and depressed man of contemporary society suffering crisis, and to image his confused face in conflicts, and in dreamy moments with bitterness, injustice and planned abjections of a hell criminal system in stories and fictions, we should find the reason in the whole structure of power-oriented society and ultimately immoral and ill society of America.
It is not reasonable and realistic that an author become a miracle out of hand and creates a book equal to “the old man and the sea” or in the level of “Jungle”, a book by Upton Sinclair. It is about 80 years ago, when Sinclair, a courtesy and passionate author started to fight against poverty and social injustice and by creating “Jungle” novel, objected to political, economical and social system of America. Now this memorable book is available for few Americans .this book, in spite of artistic value and freshness of content, could shine in darkness but kept away soon. But after 40 years, John Steinbeck, author of disadvantaged people and favorite author of Sinclair by writing the book of “The Grapes of Wrath” did a great work. The book was about painful and suffering life of poor people and emigrating of farmers from their home land when Capitalism was growing, which lead to anger of upstart Yankees, and rich open minded people called him “political author”. However, comments of these devoted critics never could reduce the value of “The Grapes of Wrath” and the book was republished in a large circulation and became immanent.
Steinbeck by writing this book against marauder and wild system could prove that he is like a sharp eye and conscience of his generation. Alas, this conscience in the process of unstoppable profit worship and monetarism of American society gradually became despair insofar as, by getting high paid for writing started to write invaluable articles like “How to be a successful person in life?” for popular magazines and newspapers. And finally this American profit and power seeking, also killed him gradually.
His contemporaries, Hemingway and Faulkner who created some valuable works, finally experienced philosophical despair, which is a product of capitulation’s culture and politic. Hemingway, at the end of his life has lost his believes to his writings and all artistic and literature works of himself and decided to kill himself by shooting in his mouth. William Faulkner who attempted to preserve his artistic honesty and integrity, for earning more income started to write scenarios for Hollywood and finally because he was addicted to alcohol, got heart attack and died.
J.D.Salinger by writing a novel called” The Catcher in the Rye “by a simple and easy language but with irony and lampoon, showed that every American things are full of lies and hypocrisy. Finally, his severe inconsistencies and seemingly exotic behavior made him trouble and led him to stay in a madhouse!!...
Thus, fake and counterfeit American Society ignored having great and independent authors, and relaxed and carefree accepted sterilization of literature. Now, most of the authors in United State, are many geniuses who prefer instead of creating a “great novel”, write stories and scenarios with themes such as Sexual crimes, murder , love and foolish events for movies and series to reach money soon, and could buy a boat, lounging on the deck and enjoy it !!! Who knows what will happen tomorrow!?
/J