《阿罗史密斯》(即将由江苏人民出版社出版)是诺贝尔文学奖获得者、美国作家辛克莱·刘易斯的一部力作。他写的《大街》、《巴比特》等在我国已有译本,在这些作品中,作者对资本主义社会中种种腐败庸俗的现象进行了辛辣的讥讽和无情的嘲笑,给人们留下了深刻的印象;而《阿罗史密斯》一书,则是作者旨在塑造正面人物的一部小说,它不仅保留了作者那种语言含蓄、幽默的风格,而且还为美国小说展现出一个新的主题。该书在美国出版后立即获得了很高的评价,还被授予美国普利策文学奖。 “Arrow Smith” (soon to be published by Jiangsu People’s Publishing House) is a masterpiece of Nobel Prize winner, American writer Sinclair Lewis. In his works, “The Street” and “Babbitt”, which he wrote, have already been translated. In these works, the author made a spicy sarcastic and merciless ridicule of the vulgar phenomena in the capitalist society and left a deep impression on people While the book “Arrow Smith” is the author’s novel aimed at shaping positive characters. It not only retains the author’s implicit and humorous style of language, but also displays a new theme for American novels . The book received a high rating immediately after its publication in the United States and was also awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Literature.