Upton Sinclair's /The Jungle/
Hi everyone; I just finished The Jungle, and I know for a fact that Megan has already read this one. Let's open a discussion!
My very very long synopses & a few thoughts are available here:
http://margaretfinkberman.blogspot.com/2010/12/jungle-part-1.html
http://margaretfinkberman.blogspot.com/2010/12/jungle-parts-2.html
The things that I'm thinking about (other than the HOLY YIKES of the book's expose-- I'm a nice tractable reader with appropriate responses) are the kind of socialism as a vision for political change or what-could-be-otherwise being presented by the book. This imagining of what-could-be-otherwise is delivered mostly as dialogue speeches--but that kind of move is something I'm interested in in a more general way. This one kind of didn't feel terribly effective; perhaps kind of like the dissatisfaction we felt with Eve Sedgwick's account of reparative reading-- paranoid reading sure isn't great, but what would be the other thing?
Darwinian thought is very very much present to me in this book, too, which would make sense for the period-- any thoughts there? I'm curious to hear what you guys took away from this novel!
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