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( Starting with this piece, Happy Reader's profile picture has been renewed for the second time to celebrate the New Year of the Blue Dragon in 2024. For more information, please refer to the community bulletin board.) Masterpieces by Nobel Prize-winning Author Sinclair Lewis Today, we introduce a short story that realistically depicts what happens to a retired old man as he enters Yale University, the story of the first American Nobel Prize-winning author, Sinclair Lewis. [Willow Old Man Axelbrod] Translated by Choi Eun-seon Published by Ilsong Media 00:00 Commentary on the work 02:51 How to live after retirement 13:30 Willow Old Man prepares for college entrance exams 18:50 College life of a seventy-year-old man Sinclair Lewis is a writer who represents critical realism and wrote many works satirizing the arrogance and vulgarity of American society. He rose to the ranks of star authors with 'Main Street'. His representative works include Babbitt, which satirizes materialistic Americans who have lost their individuality and are obsessed with materialism; Arrowsmith, which satirizes the selfishness and hypocrisy of the medical profession; and Elmer Gantry, a religious satire. Elmer Gantry was made into a movie by director Richard Brooks. Burt Lancaster, who played Elmer Gantry, won the Academy Award for Best Actor and the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor. Sinclair Lewis displayed his genius as a writer by satirizing American society obsessed with materialism, and became the first American writer to win the Nobel Prize in Literature. However, he had a difficult later life as both of his marriages ended in divorce due to his alcoholism. The book we are introducing today, Old Man Willow Axelbrod, satirizes the state of college students at the time. It is also a work that contains the experiences of Sinclair Lewis, who graduated from Yale University. Then, let's go into Sinclair Lewis' 'Old Willow Axelbrod', a work that depicts a 70-year-old man's college entrance exam preparation and college life. This video complies with the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA). #Audiobook #Listening to while sleeping #Woman reading a book