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Arrowsmith tells the story of bright and scientifically minded Martin Arrowsmith of Elk Mills, Winnemac (the same fictional state in which several of Lewis's other novels are set), as he makes his way from a small town in the Midwest to the upper echelons of the scientific community at a prestigious foundation in New York City.
Martin Arrowsmith, the novel's protagonist, is born and raised in the small Midwestern town of Elk Mills where he develops an interest in science and spends his free hours reading through Gray's Anatomy and other books in the office of the town's doctor, Doc Vickerson.
Arrowsmith, novel by Sinclair Lewis, published in 1925. The author declined to accept a Pulitzer Prize for the work because he had not been awarded the prize for his Main Street in 1921. The narrative concerns the personal and professional travails of Martin Arrowsmith, a Midwestern physician.
Arrowsmith is a biting critique of the medical profession and the commercialization of science. The novel won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1926—which Lewis declined to accept. Explore the full book summary, an in-depth character analysis of Martin Arrowsmith, and explanations of important quotes from Arrowsmith.
13 de abr. de 2014 · 3.83. 8,040 ratings592 reviews. Arrowsmith is often described as the first "scientific" novel. The books explores medical and scientific themes in a fictional way and it is difficult to think of an earlier book that does this.
Descripción. En esta novela ganadora del Premio Pulitzer en 1926 y adaptada al cine por John Ford en 1931, Sinclair Lewis retrata el difícil mundo de la ciencia a través de la vida de su protagonista, Martin Arrowsmith.
Martin Arrowsmith: The Scientist as Hero. WITH THE MANUSCRIPT OF BABBITT ALMOST COMPLETE IN THE FALL OF 1921, Sinclair Lewis already planned his next novel. "Perhaps," he wrote Alfred Harcourt, his friend and publisher, it would not be satiric at all, "rebel-. lious as ever, . . . but the central character heroic." 1 His next novel was.
