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, näytä lisää 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) näytä vähemmän
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Novels, 1920-1925: One Man's Initiation: 1917, Three Soldiers, Manhattan Transfer (2003) 280 kappaletta
Mr. Wilson's War: From the Assassination of McKinley to the Defeat of the League of Nations (1811) 134 kappaletta
The 42nd Parallel[U S A V01 42ND PARALLEL][Paperback] 11 kappaletta
Viajes de entreguerras: Una visión del mundo entre la Primera Guerra Mundial y la Guerra Civil española (ODISEAS)… (2006) 7 kappaletta
Novelas 5 kappaletta
42eme Parallele 4 kappaletta
Invierno en Castilla y otros poemas (Traducciones) (Spanish and English Edition) (2018) 3 kappaletta
John Dos Passos' correspondence with Arthur K. McComb, or, "Learn to sing the Carmagnole" (1991) 3 kappaletta
Manhattan transfer II 3 kappaletta
O Grande Capital 3 kappaletta
Prospects of a Golden Age [Birth of America] 2 kappaletta
Airways, inc., 2 kappaletta
La grosse galette t. 1 2 kappaletta
Manhattan Transfer vol. I 2 kappaletta
La grosse galette t. 2 2 kappaletta
U.S.A. The Big Money - Illustrated 2 kappaletta
The Body of an American 2 kappaletta
U. S. A., The Big Money 1 kappale
Devetnajststo devetnajst 1 kappale
Dogu Ekspresi 1 kappale
U.S.A., II : 1919: Trilogie U.S.A. II 1 kappale
Un lugar en la tierra 1 kappale
Hombre Jóven a la Aventura 1 kappale
Drei Soldaten 1 kappale
Die schönen Zeiten 1 kappale
Prospects of a Golden Age 1 kappale
Tin Lizzie [from "USA"] 1 kappale
The Campers at Kitty Hawk [from "USA"] 1 kappale
Meester Veelson [from "USA"] 1 kappale
La primera catástrofe 1 kappale
Il 42º parallelo 1 kappale
U.S.A./42.Enlem 1 kappale
U.S.A./1919 1 kappale
Collected Works of John Dos Passos: (One Man's Initiation--1917, A Pushcart At The Curb, Rosinante To The Road… (2016) 1 kappale
PRIMER ENCUENTRO 1 kappale
Ciężkie pieniądze 1 kappale
2005 1 kappale
Veliki denar 1 kappale
Le vie della liberta 1 kappale
Novelas. Tomo II : Un Lugar en la Tierra . Podria Salir Bien. Tres Soldados. Primer Encuentro. Calles de Noche (1970) 1 kappale
Art And Isadora 1 kappale
Manhatten Transfer. Dos Passos’ depiction of the city of New York and Ellen Thatcher’s & Jimmy Herfs’… (2008) 1 kappale
CALLES DE LA NOCHE 1 kappale
L'an Premier du Siecle 1 kappale
Servizio speciale 1 kappale
Il mondo fuori casa: romanzo 1 kappale
Rare -John Dos Passos THE GROUND WE STAND ON First edition 1941 Collection of Essays (1941) 1 kappale
Rocinante vuelve al camino 1 kappale
Argus Bookshop Business Reply Card (Postmarked Jul? 1950) Autograph From John Dos Passos to Argus 1 kappale
Prospects of a golden age 1 kappale
DOS PASSOS: U.S.A 1 kappale
el Paralelo 42 1 kappale
Three Soldiers 1 kappale
Associated Works
American Poetry: The Twentieth Century, Volume Two: E. E. Cummings to May Swenson (2000) — Avustaja — 405 kappaletta
The Lincoln Anthology: Great Writers on His Life and Legacy from 1860 to Now (2008) — Avustaja — 153 kappaletta
An American Album: One Hundred and Fifty Years of Harper's Magazine (2000) — Avustaja — 131 kappaletta
Oogst der tijden : keur uit de werken van schrijvers en dichters aller volken en eeuwen (1940) — Avustaja — 10 kappaletta
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- Virallinen nimi
- Dos Passos, John Roderigo
- Syntymäaika
- 1896-01-14
- Kuolinaika
- 1970-09-28
- Hautapaikka
- Yeocomico Churchyard Cemetery, Cople Parish, Virginia, USA
- Sukupuoli
- male
- Kansalaisuus
- USA
- Maa (karttaa varten)
- USA
- Syntymäpaikka
- Chicago, Illinois, USA
- Kuolinpaikka
- Baltimore, Maryland, USA
- Kuolinsyy
- heart failure
- Asuinpaikat
- Westmoreland, Virginia, USA
- Koulutus
- Harvard University (BA|1916)
Choate School - Ammatit
- novelist
poet
playwright
painter - Organisaatiot
- American Volunteer Motor Ambulance Corps
United States Army Medical Corps - Palkinnot ja kunnianosoitukset
- American Academy of Arts and Letters (1947)
Antonio Feltrinelli Prize (1967)
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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.… (lisätietoja)