American accent. Book about America and its literature

In the early 70s of the last century, the Artistic Literature publishing house issued a monograph on the work of William Falkner, which became the first noticeable word N. Anastasyev in Russian American. Now, after forty years, the author will summon some results to their observations on the literary history of the new light. The book disintegrates into two parts. The first is the general plan of the becoming American culture - the culture of pilgrims - when literature, in his own sense, not yet realized, taking, mainly the form of diaries, sermons, correspondence. The second is the cycle of portraits of writers of the XIX-XX centuries, whose books have become a classic not only national, but also world literature. Non-traditionally approximate masters of different generations and creative addictions (Washington Irving-Henry James, Ralph Waldo Emerson -Ernest Hemingway, etc) The author seeks to catch in an individual show one - American - accent and, moreover, the course of life itself, national ambitions and Slept dreams of new light. Written by alive, less than all academic language, at the junction of literary criticism and essayism, the book N. Anastasyev is designed for a wide reader circle