by Sinclair Lewis · Plaza & Janés · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788401490231
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«Cárceles de mujeres» is Sinclair Lewis's social criticism novel, published by Plaza & Janés in paperback (439 pages, in Spanish).
The plot follows Ann Vickers, an independent woman who comes to run a prison and tries to reconcile her commitment to prison and social reform with her emotional and sexual life. Lewis portrays her contradictions against the moral norms of the era and turns the prison institution into a critical mirror of society.
The work originally appeared in 1933 and caused controversy for its treatment of sexuality and prison reform. This edition dates from 1983.
Harry Sinclair Lewis was an American novelist, short-story writer, and playwright. In 1930, he became the first author from the United States to receive the Nobel Prize in Literature, which was awarded "for his vigorous and graphic art of description and his ability to create, with wit and humor, new types of characters." Lewis wrote six popular novels: Main Street (1920), Babbitt (1922), Arrowsmith (1925), Elmer Gantry (1927), Dodsworth (1929), and It Can't Happen Here (1935).
