A tragédia do Gillette
"An American Tragedy is an American novel by Theodore Dreiser. Published in 1925, the book is the story of a young man, Clyde Griffiths, whose troubles with women and the law take him from his religious upbringing in Kansas City to the fictional town of Lycurgus, New York. Among Clyde's love interests are the materialistic Hortense Briggs, the charming farmer's daughter Roberta Alden, and the aristocratic Sondra Finchley. The book is naturalistic in style, containing subject matter such as religion, capital punishment and abortion.
An American Tragedy has been adapted into opera, at the hands of composer Tobias Picker. It premiered at the Metropolitan Opera starring Nathan Gunn in New York on Dec. 2, 2005. The well-known film A Place in the Sun is also based on An American Tragedy. Dreiser strongly disapproved of a 1931 film version directed by Josef von Sternberg. Sergei Eisenstein prepared a screenplay in the late 1920s.
Many critics and commentators have also compared elements of Woody Allen's 2005 film, Match Point to the central plot of An American Tragedy. Dreiser based the book on the notorious 1906 criminal case, in which Chester Gillette was convicted of killing his ex-girlfriend, Grace Brown, at Big Moose Lake in the Adirondacks in upstate New York. The murder trial drew international attention when Brown's love letters to Gillette were read in court. Theodore Dreiser saved newspaper clippings about the case for some 15 years before writing his novel. Clyde Griffiths was based on Chester Gillette, right down to the same initials" in wikipedia
Este livro foi adaptado igualmente para cinema em 1951 (Um lugar ao Sol - A place in the sun), um filme estrondoso, com uma fotografia fantástica a preto e branco. Pena seja que, segundo sei, não existe uma versão portuguesa em DVD.
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