Depression literature (was: Gulliver's Travels)

[Andrew Foley]

Dave Monroe wrote...

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>By the way, on "Depression Literature," why NOT Dos
>Passos was my question as well, but apparently a
>matter of mass, maybe even attention span, as well.
>But I'm kicking myself for not thinking of Algren.
>Nathanael West? Henry Roth's Call it Sleep?  Sinclair
>Lewis, It Can't Happen Here?  But I'm really thrown
>for a loss at the international, "comparative" level.
>It's one thing just to some up with works published
>during the era, but something clearly "of" the
>Depression ...


In Scottish literature (one of my specialities), there's _Grey Granite_,
first published in 1934, the third book in Lewis Grassic Gibbon's "A Scots
Quair" trilogy, although to make sense of the book you should also read the
first two books, _Sunset Song_ and _Cloud Howe_, which deal with the same
characters over the previous twenty or thirty years. Non-Scots may find the
"speak of the Mearns" rhythm of the language of these
books a little difficult, but they reward careful reading.