Жемчужина. Квартал Тортилья-Флэт

John Steinbeck is a significant phenomenon in the literature of the 20th century. The biography and creative path of Steinbeck were complex: the artist knew both great creative successes and periods of professional decline; he was characterized by both violent democratism and political errors, which he defended with equal tenacity. Coming from a low-income family in the small center of rural California, Steinbeck struggled to get an education as a young farmhand, construction worker, forest ranger, reporter

The Pearl is one of Steinbeck's best and most ideologically and artistically significant stories. It is an explosion of pain caused by the consciousness of the evil that money creates. The heroes of the "Pearl" are genuine Mexicans. Before us are people of simple, kind and strong feelings. Steinbeck contrasts the spiritual purity, the clearness of the gaze of working people who did not succumb to the influence of the dollar civilization, and the greed and cruelty of money-grubbers. The publication also includes another no less famous story by John Steinbeck "The Tortilla Flat Quarter". About all this and not only in the book Zhemchuzhin. Tortilla Flat (John Steinbeck)

Goslitizdat, 1963