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Original Title:	To a God Unknown
ISBN:	0141185503 (ISBN13: 9780141185507)
Edition Language:	English

To a God Unknown

John Steinbeck

Paperback | Pages: 240 pages

Rating: 3.94 | 9025 Users | 698 Reviews

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Title	:	To a God Unknown
Author	:	John Steinbeck
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Special Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 240 pages
Published	:	November 30th 2000 by Penguin Classics (first published 1933)
Categories	:	Fiction. Classics. Literature

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While fulfilling his dead father's dream of creating a prosperous farm in California, Joseph Wayne comes to believe that a magnificent tree on the farm embodies his father's spirit. His brothers and their families share in Joseph's prosperity and the farm flourishes - until one brother, scared by Joseph's pagan belief, kills the tree and brings disease and famine on the farm. Set in familiar Steinbeck country, To a God Unknown is a mystical tale, exploring one man's attempt to control the forces of nature and to understand the ways of God.

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One very long summer some men came to the forest behind my house and cut down all the trees. The noise of the machinery lasted from 7am till 8pm most days. There were trucks which swarmed around this Queen-like machine, long and bulbous, which, in one motion, cut the trees from their bases, flipped them vertical, and stripped them of their branches. All gears and blades and noise. Once the weeks had passed and they had stripped the hillside bare, I mourned, because I had lost a part of my life,

I'll call this creepy Steinbeck. The detached writing style added a sinister element to these common place events and conversations. This story also took dark turns at almost every chance it got. I don't really understand Steinbeck's intent for this book, but I think I'd be a good read to kick off October. Just play creepy music in the background and nearly all the scenes will take on a menacing tone.

I am speechless!

as one of steinbeck's earliest works (his second novel), to a god unknown is not nearly as refined, cohesive, or accomplished an effort as the ones that followed. the sheer ambition and determination with which steinbeck set about writing this book, however, may not have been matched at any other point in his career. initially adapting the book's theme from an unfinished stage play by one of his stanford classmates, steinbeck labored for five years (longer than with any other of his works) and,

Everything seems to work with a recurring rhythm except life. There is only one birth and only one death. Nothing else is like that. John Steinbeck, To a God Unknown An early Steinbeck filled with amazing biblical, pagan, and Greek images. The novel sketches the relationship between Joseph and his efforts homesteading out West with his family. It is a story of four brothers who move from the East (Vermont) to the West (California) to work the land and raise cattle. Joseph Wayne isn't the

In To a God Unknown, Steinbeck uses allegory to explicitly advance the philosophy of Nietzsche's Übermensch.Steinbeck:After meeting an old man "over the range" and witnessing the sunset sacrifice of a pig at his hands, Joseph asks: "Why do you do this?" After the two engage a back-and-forth dialogue, the old man hits his point: "I do it for myself. I can't tell that it does not help the sun. But it is for me. In the moment, I am the sun. Do you see? I, through the beast, am the sun. I burn in

Magical realism, cultures and beliefs clashing, and ancient pagan powers all play a part in this short but powerful Steinbeck novel. This is one of those novels that really requires a deep re-read, because there is so much going on and metaphors and symbols are everywhere.