Appointment in Samarra | Literary Precedents
To the extent that Appointment in Samarra can be considered a novel of manners, detailing the social interaction of people in a specific locale, it has precedents as far back as Jane Austen's novels. Its more immediate American predecessors, however, are F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby and Sinclair Lewis's Main Street, both published in 1925. In his introduction to the Modern Library edition of Appointment in Samarra, O'Hara names these two authors as influences, noting that he could see "countless instances of the effect of my reading Fitzgerald and...
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