BASC50063 - Steinbeck:Tortilla Flat,The Log from the Sea of Cortez...

Course Description

John Steinbeck’s incarnating the life of the Salinas Valley, the particularities around Monterey, California and the Pacific thrillingly draws from geologic pre-history, the external and inner movements of people, the uses and abuses of those lands and waters, those people, their works, their Beings and Becomings. Tortilla Flat’s raucous, picaresque vignettes paint an almost religious saga of post-war paisanos fighting, drinking, loving, dying, surviving - chapter by piquant chapter. Famously, The Log crystallizes narrative from Steinbeck’s healing and passional marine study voyage with beloved biologist-friend Ed Ricketts, model for Doc of Cannery Row. The Long Valley’s short stories are Steinbeck’s garland, litany, hymn to his Salinas.