The work of William Saroyan

Now the prominent progressive American writer William Saroyan is 55 years old. He was born in 1908 in the city of Fresno - California, in a family of Armenian emigrants, immigrants from Western Turkish Armenia. Only three years old, William was left without a father and from an early age felt the bitterness of life. Forced to take care of the livelihood of his family, Saroyan began to work, first as a newspaper carrier, then a deliveryman at the telegraph post office, later a farm worker, office clerk, general laborer, mercenary soldier, reporter, etc. In all these professions, having contact with the broad masses of the people, the future writer was a witness to human sorrow and joy, observed the bitter fate of people in American reality and early began to live with the thoughts, misfortunes and dreams of the ordinary American. Here is the source of the deep realism in his works. The writer himself, in his latest novel "He Comes Here, He Goes There - You Know Who He Is," writes: "The poet also travels because the source of his poetry is the world and people, and he needs to see them as much as possible... He (the poet) strives to be true to the truth in his thoughts and feelings and, above all, to speak and write the truth."