Ameerika kirjandus alates I maailmasõjast kuni tänapäevani.
and labour. By far the most famous book is ,,The Grapes of Wrath". It is a proletarian novel-
working class novel. The main ideas of this period are solidarity and collectivism. Another
short piece is ,,Of mice and men". The third period shows that unemployment is unavoidable
and war is natural to human natural. The last period started in the second half of the 1950's.
New direction, influenced by all influences of social revolution and so on, returnts to social
problems, was conserned with corruption and society. Perhaps the most famous piece is ,,The
winter of our discontent". The novel that helped him receive the nobel prize for literature. He
did not receive it for this novel alone but all the work. The very end of his life, in the 1960's
he wrote non fiction. ,,Travels with Charlie"-his puudle. Very uneven author.
Elements of style. Unlike naturalists his style is more poetic, he uses some of the devices of
folk tales. Such as repetition