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| Doctorow, Edgar Lawrence: Ragtime / Billy Bathgate
Doctorow, Edgar Lawrence: Ragtime / Billy Bathgate
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Report on Edgar Lawrence Doctorow and His books "Ragtime"
and "Billy Bathgate"
- E.L.Doctorow was born on the sixth of January 1931
in New York City
- later he was an lecturer in different publishing
companies
- he wrote same fiction and real novels, crime stories like
"Loon Lake", historical
stories like "The Book of Daniel" a fictional
reconstruction about lawsuit against Ethel and Julius Rosenberg on the point
of view of the imaginary son of them
- he was against the western novels and show this genre
ironically in a mirror, he meant this was a national
selfdeceive
- more and more he wrote real, critical stories about the
life in the neighbourhood, for example "Billy Bathgate" a poor little boy in
the Bronx, without father and with a mad mother or "Ragtime" a story about
different immigrated Jewish families from England, Italy and a black family
from southern states an d the problems of
integration in American society
- for this great novels he got same awards for example
"National Book Award" and the "National Book Critics Award"
- today he is one of the famous fictional novel writer in
America and had much success to write without separation of fictional and
real-historical actions, more with an
entanglement fictional and real actions in His
stories
- he gave a historical point of view of the American growth
with post-modern way of narration
"Ragtime"
- this book is about the immigration in the of the
turn of the 20th century to the 21st
- the main figures are wellknown people in later life, for
example Henry Ford (car- producer), Harry Houdini (wizard), Siegmund Freud
(teacher for behaviour) and same more, these persons met them in story and told
the others their fictions and facts, just like the black revolutionary
Coalhouse Walker Jr., His career as a Ragetime- pianist, His engagement against
racism, help for suppressers with engagement to bring the Jazz to one of
American lifestyle successes
- and against this one hand Emma Goldman´s action to
aspirate to an organic-real society and on the other hand Henry Ford´s
aspiration to a mechanical society
- and at the end the integration of all these thing in the
American way life
- this book was published in 1981 as a movie and had an big
influence on media after the Watergate-Affair
"Billy Bathgate"
- is a little poor boy, lives in the Bronx, had no father,
had a mad mother and a girl friend and much dreams of a better life in
1935
- so he had an idol, its the gangsters boss Dutch Schultz,
the gangsters boss lives in glamour with a model, a black limousine and
bodyguards all what had Billy dreamt
- with His childlike charm, Billy conquer the heart of the
gangsters boss
- it seems as His dreams come true, but he recognises that
His star, Dutch Schultz, sets down
- a public prosecutor looking for the gangsters boss about
tax fraud and the other Italian Mafioso wanted to kill him, the gangsters boss
escape out of the City and go to the countryside
- so Dutch Schultz turns from a gentlemen-gangster to an
brutal killer and in this influence Billy grows up, Billy had a love affair
with Dutch Schultz´ model
- as they come back to New York City Dutch Schultz is killed
by the other Mafioso and Billy is the last in the gang and so he inherits all
the money from the gangsters boss
- now he dreams can came true
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