Harry Sinclair Lewis an American writer nobel Prize chapter II “it can’t happen here “

“IT CAN’T HAPPEN HERE “ BY SINCLAIR LEWIS AS AN ANTI- UTOPIAN, ANTI-FASCIT NOVEL

CONTENT
INTRODUCTION………………………………………………………………...3
CHAPTER I Childhood and education…………………………………………5
1.1 Harry Sinclair Lewis an American writer ………………………………….5
1.2 Nobel Prize…………………………………………………………………...10
CHAPTER II “IT CAN’T HAPPEN HERE “…………………………………18
2.1 Classic Novel……………………………………………………………......18
2.2 Caution Story……………………………………………………………….27
CONCLUSION…………………………………………………………………..32
LIST OF LITERATURE………………………………………………………..34

INTRODUCTION
This essay reads Philip Roth's The Plot Against America (2004) alongside Sinclair Lewis's novel It Can't Happen Here (1935) in order to show the central role of liberals and the left in building a politically-conscious antifascism in US culture. Both novels enter an almost century-long current of “dissonant antifascism,” a discourse that uses fascism as a frame for reading the political right and the social fields out of which it emerges, at home and abroad. Read against Lewis's 1935 novel, The Plot Against America also shows how the left-liberal understanding of fascism has shifted as a result of the Holocaust and the social movements of the 1960s. A central part of this shift has been, perhaps surprisingly, the ability of Jewish writers to use fascism as a way of addressing specifically Jewish concerns. But despite how Roth is (perhaps unconsciously) informed by the institutional legacies of the late 1960s, lost in his novel are some of radical politics of cross-ethnic solidarity that animated the radical currents of both 1930s antifascism and the “new social movements” thirty years later.
The actuals of the theme: Motivated by the totalitarian dictatorships that had recently come to power in Italy and Germany, Lewis felt a sense of urgency and rushed to finish the book. Upon publication It Can’t Happen Here sold over 300,000 copies in the United States. It sold well in Britain and France but not surprisingly was banned by the Nazi regime in Germany