Dr. med. Arrowsmith
Dr. med. Arrowsmith , in the American original Arrowsmith , is a novel by Sinclair Lewis from 1925.
content
The book is about Martin Arrowsmith, who worked his way up from student and country doctor to employee of an important research institute for which he developed the bacteriophage , a bactericidal agent. Unfortunately, a Frenchman beats him to this groundbreaking discovery by a few days. In the end, Arrowsmith breaks with the sobriety and inhumanity of the research work when he is supposed to gain knowledge about the newly discovered bacteriophage from the contaminated population of an island in the tropics.
backgrounds
Lewis was to be awarded the Pulitzer Prize in 1926 for the work , but he declined the award.
Sinclair Lewis was supported in the work on the novel by the scientist Paul de Kruif , for which he received a quarter of the proceeds.
The protagonist was modeled by Lewis and de Kruif as a portrait of Jacques Loeb .
In 1931 John Ford filmed the novel under the title Arrowsmith with Ronald Colman in the title role.
Individual evidence
- ↑ www.english.ilstu.edu/separry/sinclairlewis/faq2.html ( Memento of the original dated December 8, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed June 15, 2009
