Popularized by the movie adaptation that was made with the couple Kate Winslet / Leonardo DiCaprio (Revolutionary Road), Revolutionary Road (1961) is worth a look. The story is banal simple: a man and a woman who imagine superior to their neighbors and cultivate an artistic vocation and a vision of the distant world of mainstream sink peacefully in the comfort of their cozy suburban life . He who gland communication department of an industrial box appears to it; she who stays at home, it does not. The setting of the novel can not fail to recall that of Mad Men: they are the happiest years of prosperity; Mr working in the pub in town and mistresses, Mrs. depression in its interior pretty nicely; children grow a little abandoned. The greatness of this novel, which does not strike by its literary brilliance but by the acidity and the correctness of his look is to reveal unvarnished all the emptiness of our lives (admirable tirades husband indecisive character on purely food the job - and the inability to break away from the money and thus to get rid of the job) and dissect with admirable sincerity a couple explodes. We rarely read such beautiful and simple pages on depression, as fair and strong on the illusion that it has to think about the other. This reading is not recommended for fragile couples.