RT Journal Article
T1 Rewriting the American Dream for the Trump Era and Beyond in Gary Shteyngart’s Lake Success (2018)
A1 Bryla, Martyna Marika
K1 Sueño americano en la literatura
AB This essay analyses Gary Shteyngart’s Lake Success (2018) as an inquiry into the formative narratives of the American identity—the American Dream and self-making—through the story of a hedge-fund manager, Barry, who abandons his wife and child with autism to travel across the US just as the country is about to elect Donald Trump as president. Building on the intertextual connection with The Great Gatsby (1925), this essay contextualizes the ongoing corruption of these narratives within the culture of unbridled individual advancement, arguing that Trump’s victory has further normalized opportunism and the dissociation between individual success and collective well-being. Although this hollowing out of the American Dream and self-making renders a rather bleak picture of contemporary US, the novel suggests the possibility of change, both for Barry and America, as it calls for the re-insertion of the other into the formative narratives of American identity, thus expanding their current limits.
PB Asociación Española de Estudios Anglo-Norteamericanos. AEDEAN
YR 2022
FD 2022
LK https://hdl.handle.net/10630/33904
UL https://hdl.handle.net/10630/33904
LA eng
NO Martyna Bryla. Rewriting the American Dream for the Trump Era and Beyond in Gary Shteyngart’s Lake Success (2018). ATLANTIS Journal of the Spanish Association of Anglo-American Studies 44.1 (June 2022): 145-163 e-issn 1989-6840 DOI: http://doi.org/10.28914/Atlantis-2022-44.1.09
NO This article forms part of the research project “‘Orientation:’ A Dynamic Perspective on ContemporaryFiction and Culture (1990-onwards)” (FFI2017-86417-P) funded by the Spanish Ministry of Economy, Industryand Competitiveness..
DS RIUMA. Repositorio Institucional de la Universidad de Málaga
RD 21 ene 2026