Arrowsmith (novel)

Dr. Arrowsmith, American Original Arrowsmith, is a novel by Sinclair Lewis in the year 1925.

Content

The book is about Martin Arrowsmith, who works her way up from the students and the country doctor to the employees of a major research institution to which he developed the bacteriophage, a bakterientötendes agent. Unfortunately, a Frenchman he comes in this groundbreaking discovery a few days before. At the end of Arrowsmith breaks at the sobriety and inhumanity of the research, as it is to gain knowledge about the newly discovered bacteriophage in the tropics of the contaminated population of an island.

Background

For the work of Lewis should be awarded the 1926 Pulitzer Prize, but the award refused.

Sinclair Lewis was assisted in the work on the novel by the scientist Paul de Kruif, for which this was a quarter of the revenue.

The protagonist was modeled by Lewis and de Kruif as a portrait of Jacques Loeb.

1931 John Ford filmed the novel titled Arrowsmith with Ronald Colman in the title role.