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John Roderigo Dos Passos (/ d ɒ s ˈ p æ s ə s,-s ɒ s /; January 14, 1896 – September 28, 1970) was an American novelist, most notable for his U.S.A. trilogy.. Born in Chicago, Dos Passos graduated from Harvard College in 1916. He traveled widely as a young man, visiting Europe and southwest Asia, where he learned about literature, art, and architecture.
The U.S.A. trilogy is a series of three novels by American writer John Dos Passos, comprising the novels The 42nd Parallel (), Nineteen Nineteen and The Big Money ().The books were first published together in a volume titled U.S.A. by Modern Library in 1937.. The trilogy employs an experimental technique, incorporating four narrative modes: fictional narratives telling the life stories of ...
John Dos Passos (born Jan. 14, 1896, Chicago, Ill., U.S.—died Sept. 28, 1970, Baltimore, Md.) was an American writer, one of the major novelists of the post-World War I “lost generation.”. His reputation as a social historian and as a radical critic of the quality of American life rests primarily on his trilogy U.S.A.
Dec 22, 2021 · John Dos Passos was a novelist, poet, critic, and painter whose mother was born in Virginia. He came of age traveling through Europe and, after graduating from Harvard University in 1916, served as an ambulance driver during World War I (1914–1918). Amid the destruction of Victorian Europe, Dos Passos developed left-leaning politics that set ...
Dec 29, 2019 · The “U.S.A.” trilogy—written by Dos Passos in the late nineteen-twenties and nineteen-thirties, and consisting of “The 42nd Parallel,” “ 1919 ,” and “ The Big Money ”—was an ...
John Dos Passos. Shortly after John Dos Passos had completed the three volumes of U.S.A. in 1936, Jean-Paul Sartre observed that he was “the greatest writer of our time.”In 1939, a New Masses reviewer attacked his novel, Adventures of a Young Man, as “Trotskyist agitprop.”Neither statement set a pattern for later estimates of Dos Passos, although they suggested the extremes with which ...
John Roderigo Dos Passos (b.1896, d.1970) was a writer, painter, and political activist. He wrote over forty books, including plays, poetry, novels, biographies, histories, and memoirs. He crafted over four hundred drawings, watercolors, and other artworks. Dos Passos considered himself foremost a writer of contemporary chronicles.
THE 42ND PARALLEL, 1930. The first volume in what would become Dos Passos’s most famous work, the trilogy U.S.A., The 42nd Parallel introduces grand innovations in the form and content of American literature. The author chronicles the U.S. at the turn of the 20th century, as the country angsts for attention on the world stage. Across America ...
Oct 20, 2017 · John Dos Passos. John Dos Passos ca. 1955. (Mondadori Portfolio/Getty Images) Drawing on his experiences while serving as an ambulance driver in World War I, John Dos Passos produced in the novel Three Soldiers a disillusioned view of the war and the military that established him as an important voice of a new American literary generation.
At his literary best in the trilogy U.S.A., Dos Passos satirizes America’s worst bankers, presidents, and public relations men. Instead of following his peers’ lead and writing one charismatic frontman to attack his themes, Dos Passos paints American society as protagonist. His criticism, trained on every strata of society, recalls William ...
