ISBN: Ostalo
Godina izdanja: 1967
Jezik: Srpski
Autor: Strani

POKOJNI GEORGE APLEY
John P. Marquand
Preveo(la) Vjera Balen-Heidl
Nakladnik/ci Zora, Zagreb, 1967
Američka književnost
Epistolarni roman
Romani u pismima
Xx vek 20. veka proza
Američki pisci
Dzon Markuand

The Late George Apley is a 1937 novel by John Phillips Marquand. It is a satire of Boston`s upper class. The title character is a Harvard-educated WASP living on Beacon Hill in downtown Boston. It is an epistolary novel, made up mostly of letters to and from the title character.


First edition
(Little, Brown and Company)
The book was acclaimed as the first `serious` work by Marquand, who had previously been known for his Mr. Moto spy novels and other popular fiction. It was a bestseller and won the Pulitzer Prize for the Novel in 1938. An article in The New Yorker decades later called the book the `best-wrought fictional monument to the nation`s Protestant elite that we know of.`[1]

The narrative begins in the early 1930s. Wealthy Bostonian John Apley engages a somewhat pompous literary man to produce a truthful book about his recently deceased father, George. This writer, named Willing, specializes in flowery, sanitized tributes to local luminaries, and he is disturbed by the young man`s request for frankness, especially since George Apley was his good friend, but he reluctantly agrees.

Willing moves chronologically through Apley`s 66 years of life, using letters from his late subject`s personal papers. He frequently interjects his own comments, declaring his admiration for Apley the public-spirited citizen and bemoaning the disclosure of `scandalous` information about the man and his family. Willing, a comic character in his own right, longs for the old days in Boston, when subjects such as love affairs, alcoholism, mental illness and crime were kept out of the papers if they involved prominent people, and respectability was more important than personal happiness.

The image of George Apley that emerges in the course of the novel is alternately hilarious and poignant, and ultimately sympathetic. Apley is revealed as a man who was deeply conflicted about his status among Boston`s elite, sometimes feeling imprisoned in his privileged world, but sometimes passionately defending the old order.

In 1944, the novel was adapted as a Broadway play, and in 1947, it was made into a feature film starring Ronald Colman. In 1955, 20th Century Fox produced a TV series starring Raymond Massey and Joanne Woodward that ran until 1957.[2]

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