Pobre blanco

A passionate and solitary inventor of agricultural machinery fights for love and recognition from his community. Through this partially autobiographical tale, author Sherwood Anderson aims his critique on the rise of technology and industries at the turn of the century. At the same time, he recreates a story where nature has no judgments and beauty is troubling. Pobre blanco was praised by writers such as H. L. Mencken and Hart Crane when it was originally published. It remains a curiously contemporary novel and a marvelous testimony to Anderson.

Sherwood Anderson worked numerous jobs within the food industry upon moving to Chicago. In between, he began writing and ran a literary circle with his wife. William Faulkner, Carl Sandburg, and Edmond Wilson were a few key figures that participated in the circle. He wrote many novels, essays, poems, and short stories and is the author of the novel Winesburg, Ohio.