Sister Carrie

A radio play from the archives of the USSR Gosteleradiofond, performed by People’s Artists of the USSR Rufina Dmitrievna Nifontova (1931–1994) and Yuri Vasilievich Yakovlev (1928–2013), based on the novel of the same name by the great American writer, a classic of world literature, Theodore Dreiser (1871–1945). “Sister Carrie” was his first novel, published in 1900, which brought the author scandalous fame and was banned for immorality. The publication of this novel involved such difficulties that it pushed its creator into a severe depression. But the later fate of the novel turned out to be happy: it was translated into many languages, reissued in million-copy print runs, and in 1952 it was adapted into a film of the same title, starring Laurence Olivier and Jennifer Jones in the leading roles. “Sister Carrie” became a calling card of twentieth-century American literature. Are all means justified in the pursuit of the bewitching lights of success and well-being? The story of a simple provincial girl dreaming of happiness in a big city—an ever-young story! And for more than a century now, new and new generations of readers have been with pleasure diving into the twists of Carrie Meeber’s fate!