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John Dos Passos (1896–1970)

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John Dos Passos, 1896 - 1970 John Passos was born January 14,1896 to John Randolph Dos Passos and Lucy Addison Sprigg Madison. He attended Harvard University from 1912-1916. He was in the ambulance service units in France and Italy and in 1918, enlisted in the U.S. Army Medical Corps. From 1926-29, visa mer he directed New Playwrights' Theatre in New York City. In 1929, Passos married Katharine Smith and in 1947, they were in an automobile accident that killed his wife and left him blind in one eye. He married Elizabeth Holdridge in 1949 and a year later, Lucy Hamlin Dos Passos was born. Passos' many novels include "One Man's Initiation" (1917), "Three Soldiers" (1921), which has met with wide acclaim, "Streets of Night" (1923), "Facing the Chair" (1927), which defends the immigrants Sacco and Vanzetti, "Orient Express" (1927), "The Ground We Stand On" (1949), and "Prospects of a Golden Age" (1959). He received the Gold Medal for fiction from the National Institute of Arts and Letters in 1957, the Feltrinelli Prize for Fiction in 1967 and was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Letters in 1947. On September 28, 1970, Passos died of heart failure in Baltimore, Maryland. (Bowker Author Biography) visa färre
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Verk av John Dos Passos

Manhattan Transfer (1927) 2,135 exemplar
42:a breddgraden (1930) 1,619 exemplar
U.S.A. (1938) 1,456 exemplar
1919 (1932) 1,052 exemplar
Stora pengar (1936) 929 exemplar
Three Soldiers (1921) 684 exemplar
Años Inolvidables (1966) 121 exemplar
Midcentury (1961) 110 exemplar
One Man's Initiation: 1917 (1922) 110 exemplar
Number One (1940) 59 exemplar
Most Likely to Succeed (1954) 44 exemplar
Chosen Country (1951) 44 exemplar
Adventures of a Young Man (1938) 42 exemplar
The Grand Design (1949) 42 exemplar
The Great Days (1958) 42 exemplar
The Men Who Made the Nation (1900) 41 exemplar
Brazil on the Move (1964) 40 exemplar
Orient-Express (1927) 32 exemplar
Rosinante to the Road Again (2004) 23 exemplar
Facing the Chair (1927) 23 exemplar
Streets of Night (1923) 22 exemplar
State of the Nation (1944) 19 exemplar
U.S.A.: A Dramatic Revue (1960) 18 exemplar
Occasions and Protests (1964) 14 exemplar
Tour of Duty (1946) 13 exemplar
A Pushcart at the Curb (1922) 11 exemplar
The Devil Is a Woman [1935 film] (1935) — Screenwriter — 11 exemplar
First Encounter (1945) 10 exemplar
UN LUGAR EN LA TIERRA (1973) 8 exemplar
Tom Paine (1940) 7 exemplar
Journeys between wars (1980) 5 exemplar
Novelas 5 exemplar
In All Countries. (1934) 5 exemplar
District of Columbia (1970) 4 exemplar
42eme Parallele 4 exemplar
The theme is freedom (1956) 4 exemplar
O Grande Capital 3 exemplar
Terre élue. (1963) 2 exemplar
DE BRILLANTE PORVENIR. (1973) 2 exemplar
Airways, inc., 2 exemplar
1919 : USA triloogia. II (2022) 1 exemplar
Drei Soldaten 1 exemplar
PRIMER ENCUENTRO 1 exemplar
The Theme is Freedom (2021) 1 exemplar
U.S.A./1919 1 exemplar
U.S.A./42.Enlem 1 exemplar
Il 42º parallelo 1 exemplar
CALLES DE LA NOCHE 1 exemplar
Novelas y viajes (1962) 1 exemplar
2005 1 exemplar
Veliki denar 1 exemplar
SERVIZIO SPECIALE (1967) 1 exemplar
El gran proyecto (1951) 1 exemplar
Art And Isadora 1 exemplar
The Prospect before Us (1973) 1 exemplar
El paralelo 42 (1977) 1 exemplar
Servizio speciale 1 exemplar
ABD 2- 1919 (2012) 1 exemplar
John Dos Passos. Novelas I (1973) 1 exemplar
DOS PASSOS: U.S.A 1 exemplar
el Paralelo 42 1 exemplar
Three Soldiers 1 exemplar

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This was a major disappointment. The USA Trilogy has been in the back of my mind as one of those "I'll read that for sure one of these days" works for 15 years or so. 80 some odd years after its publication it is still mentioned as contender for the Great American Novel. Well, after reading this, the first volume, I don't join that chorus.

Dos Passos famously uses four different modes of writing in this work. The most conventional one, which is the main body of text, follows the youth and adulthood of various characters making their way through early 20th Century America. The characterization is decent, but fundamentally Dos Passos is not interested in these characters as people, but as types, as representatives of the USA. You can give him credit for scope, though if you're admiring of this aspect you should also give him demerits for a complete lack of interest in the experience of non-white Americans, which would seem to be a major flaw in a work aiming to embody the whole experience of USA. These chapters are okay, though nothing exceptional. Worthy of 3 stars.

Taking the book down to 2 stars for me are two experimental, modernist modes of writing, which I view as total failures. The greatest offenders are the "Camera Eye" sections, 27 of them in The 42nd Parallel, in which Dos Passos copies the style of James Joyce in attempting to create a portrait of the author. About a page or two each, bereft of any context or continuity, they are fairly tortuous, if blessedly brief.

The other mode is the Newsreel sections, which mash up and blend popular song lyrics with newspaper headlines and scraps of stories, as if someone with ADD was flipping through a paper while humming a song to himself. Experimental, precursor to TV, window into the mind of the time, blah blah blah.
MOON'S PATENT IS FIZZLE

insurgents win at Kansas polls Oak Park soulmates part 8000 to take autoride says girl begged for her husband

PIT SENTIMENT FAVORS UPTURN

Oh you be-eautiful doll
You great big beautiful doll
Sorry, I'm not gaining anything by this.

The fourth mode is the one I enjoyed the most, brief sketches of famous biographical figures of the time which tend to the witty, irreverent and clever. I quite liked them, though are they necessary or even sensical to include in the novel? Not really.
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lelandleslie | 21 andra recensioner | Feb 24, 2024 |
Dated now and with references to people and events that are close to forgotten.
I had read the trilogy "USA" in 1972 and thought it was revolutionary writing and loved its locomotive narrative.
Dos Passos' diaries and letters are worth reading. He comes across as a retiring thoughtful man with a genius for inventive expression and someone keen for experience.
We follow his development from student to volunteer ambulance service in Europe and Army service in World War I. He was a frequent traveller always interested in how the working citizen was being influenced by the mass movements of the first half of the Twentieth Century.
Over a lifetime Dos Passos gave away his socialist beliefs to such an extent that he ended up a Goldwater advocate in 1964. This change was influenced by his ever growing distrust of communism and political "isms".
There is wonderful correspondence with Hemingway, Edmund Wilson, Malcolm Cowley, Fitzgerald and E.E. Cummings to mention the most well-known.
His life at Harvard, travels in Spain, the Near East and Russia, the USA in the Thirties, the Spanish Civil War (where his disquiet with communism was fully realized) and post World War II are all covered.
He was often in straitened circumstances (the correspondence often shows him requesting a loan of a couple of hundred dollars to tide him over). He suffered ill-heath for decades and tragedy struck when his first wife was killed in a car crash. To the end of his days he remained an affectionate man with a healthy capacity for disbelief in the prevailing discourse.
Each period of his life is provided with an introductory piece by the editor in the form of a biographical narrative.
Good reading.
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ivanfranko | Nov 12, 2023 |
I alternated between being drawn in and bored by this glimpse into a part of New York in the twenties. Much of the writing is absolutely gorgeous--Dos Passos is a brilliant imagist and the book drips with shimmering sentences. The most interesting part for more was seeing an earlier version of his unique style that he put to such powerful use in the U.S.A. trilogy [b:U.S.A.: The 42nd Parallel / 1919 / The Big Money|261441|U.S.A. The 42nd Parallel / 1919 / The Big Money|John Dos Passos|https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1309200622l/261441._SY75_.jpg|6503267]. I've recommended this work to so many people and would definitely start and maybe even end there.… (mer)
 
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lschiff | 27 andra recensioner | Sep 24, 2023 |
Reason Read: Reading 1001 botm September 2023, TIOLI #9
This book was published in 1925 and covers the time period of the Gilded age to the Jazz age in New York City. It is a series of overlapping individual stories and narrative collage (These works tell visual stories of individuals, businesses, organizations and communities. They are bold, personalized forms of visual communication, identity and storytelling.) John Dos Passos was an American socialist novelist and in this work he is showing New York to be a city in motion; there are ships, trains, buses, taxicabs. On importance is the Manhattan transfer which stands for people who are just passing through. Architectures include the skyscrapers and the bridge, Broadway and Wall street.

Themes also include youth and wealth. A person needs to look good, to be young to survive in New York. Another is the wealthy capitalist and the trade unions. Interestingly, the press is a symbol of distrust. One character is a radical journalist and another one wants to be a reporter. He is unable to get his articles published because they don't fit the mainstream idea. Some things don't change. The implication that the media is blamed by a judge as emboldening burglars. Some things don't change I guess.

There are 4 main characters and several secondary characters; Ellen Thatcher a successful actress, several marriages/divorces. Bud Korpenning; farmer roots unable to make it in the city. George Baldwin; young lawyer makes a successful law suit thant benefits Gus the milkman. Jimmy Herf, his mother dies, he has money and can go to school and go into business but chooses instead to enlist and also be a reporter.
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Kristelh | 27 andra recensioner | Sep 12, 2023 |

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10,277
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3.8
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ISBN
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