American tragedy. Dreiser T.

Clyde Grifits, “A average young American with a typically American view of life”, the nephew of the rich Lycurgan manufacturer Samuel Grifitsa, seeking to establish herself in high society at all costs, starts an affair with his cousin's girlfriend, 17-year-old Sondra Finchli, the rich heiress of another local manufacturer, beautiful, spoiled, narcissistic representative of the Golden Youth of the city. Weighing the ongoing love connection with a simple factory worker Roberta Olden, Clyde decides to put an end to a relationship with her with one blow-which will turn out to be fatal for himself... “American tragedy” (1925)-a criminal-suits, psychological drama based on real events and at the same time at the same time The harsh rebuke of the “American Dream”-became the most famous novel by Theodore Dreiser and the plot basis of several feature films: from classic Hollywood film version of Joseph von Sternberg (1931) and George Stevens (1951) to a free interpretation in the “Match-point” (2005) Woody Allen.