While Mauriac's books often talk of claustrophobic lives, Steinbeck finds some liberation in the expansion of boundaries, both physical and mental. Unlike Mauriac, Steinbeck adds in all the optimism of progress - the arrival of Ford cars, automation, the spread of education and the growing emancipation of women. The epic tells the tale of two families in California around about a century ago. East of Eden contains one of the nastiest characters ever, Kathy, the mother of the second set of Cain and Able brothers. He won the prize a decade after Francois Mauriac who, like Steinbeck, wrote of the great moral battles that take place in ordinary people's hearts. He won the Nobel Prize in 1962 and considered this is best book. Steinbeck is one of those great writers who is easy to read and who tends to think well of human beings. I found the film incomprehensible but, by contrast, I felt ennobled by finishing the book! John Steinbeck has rewritten the Cain and Able story to produce an epic over three generations which maintains momentum and gives fascinating insights into human nature, our ability to hurt each other and our capacity to rise above. If you have seen the film of "East of Eden" then you have only seen a very pale imitation of the book - even if James Dean did get an Oscar nomination for it. East of Eden The masterpiece of Steinbeck’s later years, East of Eden is a sprawling epic in which Steinbeck created his most mesmerizing characters and explored his most enduring themes: the mystery of identity, the inexplicability of love, and the murderous consequences of love’s absence.
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