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Biography EssayFor readers familiar with his work in the 1920s and 1930s, John Dos Passos's public image seemed clearly defined. His friends and colleagues were expatriate writers such as Ernest Hemin...
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The reputation of the American novelist John Roderigo Dos Passos (1896-1970) is based chiefly on his early work, especially the trilogy "U.S.A."John Dos Passos was born in Chicago on Jan. 14, 1896, th...
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For readers in the 1930s and 1940s the career of John Dos Passos had its puzzling aspects, but the image of the man seemed to possess a certain clarity. He was, according to the dust jackets, "Chicago...
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John Roderigo Dos Passos, social and political chronicler, was born John Roderigo Madison in a Chicago hotel. His father, John Randolph Dos Passos, a prominent attorney, and his mother, Lucy Madison, ...
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Critical Essay by F. R. Leavis
After Manhattan Transfer (1927) one remembered the name of John Dos Passos. After The Forty-second Parallel one looked eagerly forward to the succeeding members of the t...
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Critical Essay by Jean-paul Sartre
A novel is a mirror. So everyone says. But what is meant by reading a novel? It means, I think, jumping into the mirror. You suddenly find yourself on the other side...
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Critical Essay by Herbert Marshall Mcluhan
The reader of Dos Passos … is not required to have much more reading agility than the reader of the daily press. Nor does Dos Passos make many more se...
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Critical Essay by Claude-edmonde Magny
The special technique of The Big Money encompasses an entire, implicit metaphysic—the challenge of Being. It is important for another reason, too: thanks ...
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Critical Essay by George J. Becker
[Dos Passos'] preparation as a writer may be seen as four separate rites of passage, subjection to major ordeals of mind and spirit, which determined and temp...
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Critical Essay by Joseph Warren Beach
[We] have now had more than twenty years to digest Manhattan Transfer and fully ten years to come to terms with the completed trilogy of U.S.A. In books like Jour...
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Critical Essay by James T. Farrell
John Dos Passos is one of the few living American writers who is a world figure. Abroad, his books are sometimes cited as criticisms of American capitalism and as no...
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Critical Essay by Linda W. Wagner
Although Dos Passos' writing eventually focused on American themes, his earliest poetry and fiction were more self-conscious than country-conscious. His favori...
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In the following essay, Levin discusses the political beliefs of John Dos Passos, particularly in U.S.A.
John Dos Passos' reputation reached its highest point in 1938, when Jean-Paul Sartre...
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John Roderigo Dos Passos
John (Roderigo) Dos Passos
Critical Essay by F. R. Leavis
