Jay parini steinbeck biography dvd

Ed Ricketts influenced Steinbeck by introducing him to the works of William E Ritter and John Elof Boodin and J.S.

HAldane. The thought that "the living body and its physiological environment form an organic whole, the parts of which cannot be separate from one another ( cannot be understood in separation from one another." Steinbeck's thesis is that man in groups, like all units made up of individual parts, appear to connect to a larger spirit or will that exists somewhere beyond individual response.
This is explored in In Dubious Battle, Tortilla Flat, the stories that would eventually make up "The Long Valley."

Refused to accept an award for best novel of 1935, he said: "The whole early part of my life was poisoned with egotism.." In the last few books he identified "in most real way with people who were not me..the work has been the means of making me feel that I am living richly, diversly..even heroically."
Like so many writers of thi