5/24/2023 0 Comments The jungle 1906 upton sinclair![]() ![]() Some real-life individuals-Lithuanian name-donors for the protagonists of The Jungle-are presented in this volume. If you look for “a Lithuanian linguist” working in field-research conditions in Chicago’s Back of the Yards-there is Upton Sinclair! The book targets Sinclair’s motives for choosing Lithuanian characters, his sources and his work methods in “field-research” conditions in Chicago. He even confessed to having sang in Lithuanian. ![]() Sinclair discovered the Lithuanian language in Chicago and explored it with pleasure. This volume is the first attempt to analyze aspects of Lithuanian linguistic and historical data from The Jungle. In his legendary novel The Jungle (19), Upton Sinclair included a conspicuous number of Lithuanian words, phrases and surnames. ![]()
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