The Jungle is a novel written by Upton Sinclair and published in 1906. It is a fictionalized account of the harsh working and living conditions of immigrant laborers in the meatpacking industry in Chicago in the early 20th century.The Jungle caused a national uproar and led to significant changes in food safety laws and regulations. The book is often credited with helping to create the Pure Food and Drug Act and the Meat Inspection Act, both of which were signed into law in 1906.Upton Beall SinclairJr. (September 20, 1878 November 25, 1968) was an American writer, muckraker, political activist and the 1934 Democratic Party nominee for governor of California who wrote nearly 100 books and other works in several genres. Sinclairs work was well known and popular in the first half of the 20th century, and he won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1943.
A través del audaz magnate del petróleo Arnold Ross, un hombre hecho a sí mismo, y su idealista hijo Bun, esta novela nos hace el mejor retrado literario de la California del siglo XX. Sin ocultar en exceso sus referentes reales y tomando como punto de partida Beach City (Long Beach), los personajes nos van introduciendo en un turbulento mundo poblado por combativos lideres sindicales y empresarios sin escrupulos, banqueros avidos de poder y falsos mesias, politicos corruptos y actrices dispuestas a vender su alma... Un estremecedor reflejo de los escandalos politicos y economicos protagonizados por la "banda de Ohio" durante la presidencia de Warren G. Harding (1921-1923).
This lively and panoramic book, which was recently cited by David Denby in the New Yorker as being Sinclair's "most readable" novel, is now the inspiration for the Paramount Vantage major motion picture, There Will Be Blood. It is the long-awaited film from Paul Thomas Anderson, one of the most admired filmmakers working today whose previous movies, Boogie Nights and Magnolia were both multiple Academy Award nominees. The movie stars Oscar-winner Daniel Day-Lewis (Gangs of New York, My Left Foot) and Paul Dano (Little Miss Sunshine).
Sinclair's 1927 novel did for California's oil industry what The Jungle did for Chicago's meat-packing factories. In Oil! Upton Sinclair fashioned a novel out of the oil scandals of the Harding administration, providing in the process a detailed picture of the development of the oil industry in Southern California. Bribery of public officials, class warfare, and international rivalry over oil production are the context for Sinclair's story of a genial independent oil developer and his son, whose sympathy with the oilfield workers and socialist organizers fuels a running debate with his father. Senators, small investors, oil magnates, a Hollywood film star, and a crusading evangelist people the pages of this lively novel. Watch the film trailer for There Will Be Blood starring Daniel Day Lewis.
El audaz magnate del petróleo Arnold Ross, un hombre hecho a sí mismo, y su idealista hijo Bun vehiculan el mejor retrato literario de la California del siglo xx jamás escrito. Sin ocultar en exceso sus referentes reales y tomando como punto de partida Beach City (Long Beach), los personajes de Sinclair introducen al lector en un turbulento mundo poblado por combativos lideres sindicales y empresarios sin escrupulos, banqueros avidos de poder y falsos mesias , politicos corruptos y actrices dispuestas a vender su alma.Un estremecedor reflejo de los escandalos economicos por la llamada banda de Ohio durante la presidencia de Warren G. Harding (1921-1923); una novela que nos golpea directamente en el estomago y que Paul Thomas Anderson ha convertido en una gran pelicula: Pozos de ambicion.
