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- It explores the book’s engagement with environmental crises and indigenous cosmologies to show how the metaphysical insecurities, common to much of Johnson’s fiction, come in this context to challenge the very concept of American nationhood itself – or as the novella’s title parodies, the “American Dream.”
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Critics have widely discerned the influence of 20th Century American novelists in Train Dreams, most strikingly that of Ernest Hemingway, and in particular Johnson's use of the declarative sentence, a hallmark of Hemingway's style.
Denis Johnson’s novella, Train Dreams, is a haunting and beautifully written tale of a man’s life in the early 20th century American West. The story follows Robert Grainier, a laborer on the railroad, as he navigates a world that is rapidly changing around him.
Sep 16, 2011 · A powerful American story of backwoods tragedy and isolation unfolds in Denis Johnson’s novella.
Jul 13, 2012 · Johnson highlights the railroad as a metaphor and as a source of employment for Johnson, but it is not a machine that takes us from one place to another; rather, its whistle blends with the howl of the coyote, and as it passes through the valley where Grainier lives, it enters his dreams.
Nov 9, 2020 · This article explores the “unsettling” qualities of American writer Denis Johnson’s 2011 novella, Train Dreams. It explores the book’s engagement with environmental crises and indigenous cosmologies to show how the metaphysical insecurities, common to much of Johnson’s fiction, come in this context to challenge the very concept of ...
- Dominic Davies
- 2020
Sep 19, 2011 · Train Dreams by Denis Johnson tells the life story of a railroad worker from the early 20th century, and, while short, it's a rich dramatic rendition of a man's life.
Nov 9, 2020 · Train Dreams unsettles what I call the narrative infrastructures undergirding the story of the American frontier-becoming-nation-state: the transcontinental railroads, and the colonial...
