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The naturalist author Theodore Dreiser was obsessed with true crime, keeping track of articles and cases in the early 20th century. The product of this obsession was his 1925 novel, "An American Tragedy", based on a true crime story from New York's Adirondack Mountains region that Dreiser followed. This novel was one of Dreiser's most successful works and has often been hailed as his masterpiece.

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When confronted with a novel of 934 pages one naturally has to ask oneself: Is it worth it? Several stumbling blocks initially seem to suggest a negative answer. Listed by some critics as the "worst-written great novel of the world," the first stumbling block for many readers is Dreiser's English. Dreiser, son of German immigrants and initially educated in German, seems to have had a life-long love affair with the kind of overextended German sentence structures that--for the patient reader--usually create beautiful arches to final conclusions but also often just drift away half finished. English readers beware! And the word choices--also often criticized? I'm not an expert in the words choices of the early 20th century, but I must confess that several of his adjectives and verbs strike me to be unnecessarily stilted, at times even a bit silly. And the plot? Well, the title tells you up front that there will be no happy end. But is it a tragedy? Not by classical standards. The hapless, shallow, feckless hero is not of tragic stature and the unavoidable choices he has to make are certainly not choices between moral goods of equal value. Still, this is a haunting and beautiful novel. What makes this a convincing American tragedy is, in my view, that it shows tragedy in a most peculiarly American costume: A boy of extremely strict religious upbringing, breaks away from its confinements, wants to enjoy the easy pleasures of modern life and a quick rise in social standing--but does so without either the knowledge nor the patience, discipline and energy needed in the process. What we follow is the wobbly, pathetically selfish rise and quick demise of a young man who is victim as much as victimizer. Yes, this is a long novel because Dreiser spares us no details. His long journalistic career has given him a sharp eye for social, commercial, political, and legal details of the early 1900s. He loves to heap it on and on and on. Be prepared for an exhaustive exploration. At the same time, it is a novel of surprising psychological subtlety. Its long, convoluted sentences serve Dreiser well in his connection. Often a sentence starts from one psychological insight and morphs into its opposite before the sentence is concluded. I don't remember any other author who uses this effect as successfully. This is not an easy novel to read through. Particularly the first adolescent love affairs of our immature hero are given too much space for my taste. (My reason for only four stars.) But once one has waded through these, the rest is spell-binding in its relentless increase of pressure on a hero unable to understand his own actions and motives, the complexities of his surroundings or the predicaments he faces as a result. This is an American tragedy in no small part because for Dreiser true tragedy seems no longer an option in this happy-unhappy country of limited people confronted on all sides with seemingly unlimited opportunities. A sobering assessment.

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