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
Novels, 1920-1925: One Man's Initiation: 1917, Three Soldiers, Manhattan Transfer (2003) 280 exemplar
Mr. Wilson's War: From the Assassination of McKinley to the Defeat of the League of Nations (1811) 134 exemplar
Viajes de entreguerras: Una visión del mundo entre la Primera Guerra Mundial y la Guerra Civil española (ODISEAS)… (2006) 7 exemplar
Novelas 5 exemplar
42eme Parallele 4 exemplar
O Grande Capital 3 exemplar
Manhattan transfer II 3 exemplar
John Dos Passos' correspondence with Arthur K. McComb, or, "Learn to sing the Carmagnole" (1991) 3 exemplar
U.S.A. The Big Money - Illustrated 2 exemplar
The Body of an American 2 exemplar
La grosse galette t. 2 2 exemplar
La grosse galette t. 1 2 exemplar
Prospects of a Golden Age [Birth of America] 2 exemplar
Manhattan Transfer vol. I 2 exemplar
Airways, inc., 2 exemplar
Hombre Jóven a la Aventura 1 exemplar
U. S. A., The Big Money 1 exemplar
Devetnajststo devetnajst 1 exemplar
Collected Works of John Dos Passos: (One Man's Initiation--1917, A Pushcart At The Curb, Rosinante To The Road… (2016) 1 exemplar
Drei Soldaten 1 exemplar
Die schönen Zeiten 1 exemplar
Un lugar en la tierra 1 exemplar
Prospects of a Golden Age 1 exemplar
PRIMER ENCUENTRO 1 exemplar
U.S.A./1919 1 exemplar
U.S.A./42.Enlem 1 exemplar
La primera catástrofe 1 exemplar
Meester Veelson [from "USA"] 1 exemplar
The Campers at Kitty Hawk [from "USA"] 1 exemplar
Tin Lizzie [from "USA"] 1 exemplar
Il 42º parallelo 1 exemplar
CALLES DE LA NOCHE 1 exemplar
Ciężkie pieniądze 1 exemplar
2005 1 exemplar
Veliki denar 1 exemplar
Le vie della liberta 1 exemplar
Novelas. Tomo II : Un Lugar en la Tierra . Podria Salir Bien. Tres Soldados. Primer Encuentro. Calles de Noche (1970) 1 exemplar
Art And Isadora 1 exemplar
Manhatten Transfer. Dos Passos’ depiction of the city of New York and Ellen Thatcher’s & Jimmy Herfs’… (2008) 1 exemplar
L'an Premier du Siecle 1 exemplar
Servizio speciale 1 exemplar
Il mondo fuori casa: romanzo 1 exemplar
Rare -John Dos Passos THE GROUND WE STAND ON First edition 1941 Collection of Essays (1941) 1 exemplar
Rocinante vuelve al camino 1 exemplar
Argus Bookshop Business Reply Card (Postmarked Jul? 1950) Autograph From John Dos Passos to Argus 1 exemplar
Prospects of a golden age 1 exemplar
DOS PASSOS: U.S.A 1 exemplar
el Paralelo 42 1 exemplar
Three Soldiers 1 exemplar
Associerade verk
American Poetry: The Twentieth Century, Volume Two: E. E. Cummings to May Swenson (2000) — Bidragsgivare — 404 exemplar
The Lincoln Anthology: Great Writers on His Life and Legacy from 1860 to Now (2008) — Bidragsgivare — 153 exemplar
An American Album: One Hundred and Fifty Years of Harper's Magazine (2000) — Bidragsgivare — 131 exemplar
Years of Protest: A Collection of American Writings of the 1930's (1967) — Bidragsgivare — 39 exemplar
Oogst der tijden : keur uit de werken van schrijvers en dichters aller volken en eeuwen (1940) — Bidragsgivare — 10 exemplar
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Allmänna fakta
- Namn enligt folkbokföringen
- Dos Passos, John Roderigo
- Födelsedag
- 1896-01-14
- Avled
- 1970-09-28
- Begravningsplats
- Yeocomico Churchyard Cemetery, Cople Parish, Virginia, USA
- Kön
- male
- Nationalitet
- USA
- Land (för karta)
- USA
- Födelseort
- Chicago, Illinois, USA
- Dödsort
- Baltimore, Maryland, USA
- Dödsorsak
- heart failure
- Bostadsorter
- Westmoreland, Virginia, USA
- Utbildning
- Harvard University (BA|1916)
Choate School - Yrken
- novelist
poet
playwright
painter - Organisationer
- American Volunteer Motor Ambulance Corps
United States Army Medical Corps - Priser och utmärkelser
- American Academy of Arts and Letters (1947)
Antonio Feltrinelli Prize (1967)
Medlemmar
Diskussioner
April-June Theme Read: War and Regions in Conflict i Reading Globally (februari 10)
AMERICAN AUTHORS CHALLENGE--JUNE 2022--JOHN DOS PASSOS i 75 Books Challenge for 2022 (juli 2022)
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Statistik
- Verk
- 143
- Även av
- 25
- Medlemmar
- 10,277
- Popularitet
- #2,309
- Betyg
- 3.8
- Recensioner
- 122
- ISBN
- 458
- Språk
- 18
- Favoritmärkt
- 1
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. 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.… (mer)