![]() ![]() “In response to an especially vicious review by Anthony West in The New Yorker, Steinbeck was moved to write: “I should like to meet him to find out why he hated and feared this book so much.” ![]() Get a Glimpse of Steinbeck’s Thoughts on Criticism and More Critic’s Reviews In John Steinbeck: A Biography, author Jay Parini notes that in the New York Times Book Review Mark Schorer called East of Eden “probably the best of John Steinbeck’s novels.” Yet Time magazine dismissed the book as “a huge grab bag in which pointlessness and preposterous melodrama pop up frequently as good storytelling and plausible conduct.” “Despite the book’s public popularity, literary critics remained extremely divided. In addition to adaptations for the stage, East of Eden has been translated into many foreign languages. ![]() In 1955, Elia Kazan directed and produced the movie version of East of Eden starring James Dean as “Cal.” The film has now reached the status of a classic. By November, East of Eden was number one on the fiction best-seller list and it has never been out of print. East of Eden was published for the first time by The Viking Press in September 1952. “But the book did make its way into the public’s heart. ![]()
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