A legendary duo of friends
Literature and theater have given birth to legendary couples.
But friend duos are rarer.
With
Of Mice and Men
, Steinbeck made Lennie, the simple-minded, and George, the resourceful, one of the most beautiful and cruel stories of friendship.
Joseph Kessel was admiring:
“The shapeless and invincible friendship formed between Lennie, the gentle innocent colossus with devastating hands, and his friend George, a sharp little man, has a beauty, a power of myth.”
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Steinbeck wrote a short novel in which he features two farm workers who travel across California in the Salinas Valley in 1930. They have a dream: save up to buy a small farm of their own, and
“live like rentiers »
.
Problem: Lennie has the brain of a three-year-old and the strength of a buffalo.
He likes to pet mice, puppies, rabbits and silky dresses, but not controlling his strength, he ends up killing the little animals...
Also read: John Steinbeck in Le Figaro: “How I learned to be a writer”
On the ranch where they are, a…
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