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John Brunner's "non-novel" Stand on Zanzibar (1968), which won the Hugo Award, features his technique of using fictitious newspaper clippings, television announcements, and other "samples" taken from the news and entertainment media of the year 2010. His art most often reflected his travels in Spain, Mexico, North Africa, plus the streets and cafés of the Montparnasse Quarter of Paris that he had frequented with good friends Fernand Léger, Ernest Hemingway, Blaise Cendrars, and others. Written in experimental, non-linear form, the trilogy blends elements of biography and news reports to paint a landscape of early 20th-century American culture. John Roderigo Dos Passos was an American novelist and artist. However, his views on the Communist movement had already begun to change. [14], In the same decade, he published the influential study The Head and Heart of Thomas Jefferson (1954), about which fellow ex-radical Max Eastman wrote: "I think John Dos Passos has done a great service to his country and the free world by lending his talents to this task. However, after a trip to the Soviet Union he began to distance himself from the Stalinist practices he witnessed there. In den Romanen, aus denen sie besteht - "Der 42. He saw firsthand the Battle of Verdun, which killed almost one million people. It had been set up following the first of the Moscow "Show Trials" in 1936, part of the massive purges of Soviet party leaders and intellectuals in that period.[7]. Tragedy struck the same year when an automobile accident killed his wife of 18 years, Katharine Foster Smith, and cost him the sight in one eye. Having reported on World War I, World War II, and the Spanish Civil War, he knew the costs of authoritarianism. The couple had no children. Der fünfundzwanzigjährige Autor macht sich auf den Weg nach Konstantinopel, wo nach dem Ersten Weltkrieg ein Kampf um Besitzansprüche ausgebrochen ist, erklärt der Rezensent. Dos Passos' major work is the U.S.A. trilogy, comprising The 42nd Parallel (1930), 1919 (1932), and The Big Money (1936). In the 1960s, he actively campaigned for Barry Goldwater's 1964 presidential campaign and Richard M. Nixon's 1960 and 1968 presidential campaigns, and became associated with the group Young Americans for Freedom. “I wonder if any of you have ever noticed,” Dos Passos said, “that it is those who find most pleasure and amusement in their fellow man and have most hope in his goodness, who get the reputation of being his most carping critics.” His politics, which had always underpinned his work, moved to the right, and Dos Passos came to have a qualified, and temporary, sympathy for the goals of Joseph McCarthy in the early 1950s. He died in Baltimore, Maryland. In 1912, Dos Passos enrolled in Harvard College, where he became friends with classmate E.E. Dos Passos used experimental techniques in these novels, incorporating newspaper clippings, autobiography, biography, and fictional realism to paint a vast landscape of American culture during the first decades of the 20th century. Between 1925 and 1927, Dos Passos wrote plays as well as created posters and set designs for the New Playwrights Theatre in New York City. Dos Passos preferred traveling the world on foot, where he could observe from a pure vantage point. Breitengrad" / "1919" / "Das große Geld") aus dem Englischen von Dirk van Gunsteren und Nikolaus Stingl Rowohlt Verlag, Hamburg. John Dos Passos: Drei Soldaten (1921) „Drei Soldaten“ von John Dos Passos erschien 1922 beim Malik-Verlag auf deutsch. Time and tragedy never diminished his capacity for wonder. At the same time, he had to report for duty with the U.S. Army Medical Corps at Camp Crane in Pennsylvania. [16] He continued to write until his death in Baltimore, Maryland in 1970. Joe Haldeman's novel Mindbridge (2014) also uses the collage technique. He traveled widely as a young man, visiting Europe and the Middle East, where he learned about literature, art, and architecture. I learned the structure of writing from Fontenay. Als Kunststudent in Spanien begann er zu malen und zu schreiben; unter dem Eindruck des ersten Weltkrieges verfasste er zwei pazifistische Romane, bevor er mit dem multiperspektivischen Großstadtpanorama Manhattan Transfer 1925 den amerikanischen Roman … John Dos Passos (1896-1970) gilt als einer der bedeutendsten Schriftsteller der amerikanischen Moderne. Entstanden sind seit dieser Zeit drei Bände. Er studierte in Harvard und ging nach dem Abschluss 1916 nach Europa. Aventures d'un jeune homme (Folio) von Dos Passos,John und eine große Auswahl ähnlicher Bücher, Kunst und Sammlerstücke erhältlich auf ZVAB.com. Jahrhunderts. Influenced by various movements, he merged elements of Impressionism, Expressionism, and Cubism to create his own unique style. During World War I, he was an ambulance driver for American volunteer groups in Paris and Italy, before joining the U.S. Army Medical Corps. Los ging die Buchreihe bereits im Jahr 1930 und der aktuell letzte Teil der U.S.A.-Bücher kommt aus dem Jahr 1936.Außer hiesiger Reihenfolge verfasste John Dos Passos ebenfalls die Serie District of Columbia. Born in Chicago, Dos Passos graduated from Harvard College in 1916. And Jefferson's mind and heart are so livingly related to our problems today that the result seems hardly to be history."[15]. He wrote admiringly about the Industrial Workers of the World, and the injustice in the criminal convictions of Sacco and Vanzetti, and joined with other notable figures in the United States and Europe in a failed campaign to overturn their death sentences. “I have tried to look at it from the point of view of the ordinary man, the ordinary woman,” he told The Paris Review, “struggling to retain some dignity and to make a decent life in these vast organizations.” If America were to reclaim its storybook democracy, Dos Passos believed, it had to honor its populist roots. In the 1960s, he campaigned for presidential candidates Barry Goldwater and Richard M. Nixon. “I want to peel the rind of the orange. Alle Infos hierzu auf Wiki-Basis im Bücher-Wiki. In particular Alfred Döblin's Berlin Alexanderplatz and Jean-Paul Sartre's Roads To Freedom trilogy show the influence of his methods. Sicheres und geprüftes Online-Shopping mit Weltbild.de erleben! Rowohlt Verlag, Hamburg 2020, 1644 Seiten, 50 Euro. While influenced by Dos Passos's technique, Brunner's work was also inspired by emerging European literary theory on meta-fiction. As a child, John traveled extensively with his mother, who was an invalid and preferred Europe. Eyes seek the driver’s eyes. Beyond his writing, Dos Passos is known for his shift in political views. I learned poetry from Prévert. (In later years, Hemingway would give Dos Passos the derogatory moniker of "the pilot fish" in his memoir of 1920s Paris, A Moveable Feast. By the late summer of 1918, Dos Passos had completed a draft of his first novel. Inspiriert von den filmischen Schnitttechniken Sergej Eisensteins zeichnete John Dos Passos in seiner Roman-Collage "Manhattan Transfer" ein Porträt New Yorks als Ort der Verheißung und des Grauens. Three Soldiers, his novel drawn from those experiences, features a character who has virtually the same military career as the author and stays in Paris after the war. John Dos Passos ist mit "Manhattan Transfer" bekannt geworden, das Stakkato atemloser Beschreibungen findet sich aber auch schon in seinem früheren Buch "Orient-Express", berichtet Wolfgang Schneider. I learned editing from Dos Passos. Dos Passos considered himself foremost a writer of contemporary chronicles. His parents later arranged for him to travel with a private tutor on a six-month tour of France, England, Italy, Greece, and the Middle East, to study the masters of classical art, architecture, and literature. He knew Paris and Greenwich Village as well as any American writer in the 1920s and 1930s, but they were mere launching pads for adventure—not ends in themselves. Dos Passos' political and social reflections in the novel are deeply pessimistic about the political and economic direction of the United States, and few of the characters manage to hold onto their ideals through the First World War. 1646 Seiten, 50 Euro. Dos Passos married Elizabeth Hamlyn Holdridge (1909–1998) in 1949, by whom he had one daughter, Lucy Hamlin Dos Passos (b. Jetzt wurde er nach fast 90 Jahren neu übersetzt. Governments, militaries, labor unions, corporations, universities—all were occasional targets of his satire. It was followed by the antiwar novel, Three Soldiers, which brought him considerable recognition. His father was married at the time and had a son several years older than John. John Dos Passos: "USA-Trilogie" ("Der 42. “I want to swallow the oyster of the world,” Dos Passos once wrote. I want to peel off the rind in patterns of my own making. "[12], In the 1950s, Dos Passos also contributed to publications such as the history magazine American Heritage, for which he wrote essays on Thomas Jefferson, the Marquis de Sade, Aaron Burr, and Robert Morris,[13] the libertarian journal The Freeman and the conservative magazine National Review. He walked from Stamford, Connecticut up the Housatonic River to the Massachusetts state line. John Dos Passos: USA-Trilogie. A hundred miles down the road. I am afraid that's what's happening in Russia. Rowohlt Verlag, Hamburg 2020. Later, he traveled with his tutor on a tour through France, England, Italy, Greece and the Middle East to study classical art, architecture and literature. He received a first-class education at The Choate School, in Connecticut, in 1907, under the name John Roderigo Madison. I want to paint with the dregs pictures of gods and demons on the great white curtains of eternity.”. [citation needed] In a 1936 essay, "On John Dos Passos and 1919", Sartre referred to Dos Passos as "the greatest writer of our time. By the 1950s, his political views had changed dramatically, and he had become more conservative. Dieses Land ist das gesprochene Wort der Menschen: Die in hundert Tonlagen verfasste „USA-Trilogie“ von John Dos Passos erscheint in einer großartigen Neuübersetzung. John Dos Passos: ‘His response to the great war and communist revolution was to become a novelist with the instincts of a journalist, and a fictional reporter with the insight of a storyteller.’ "[17], American writer Mary McCarthy said that The 42nd Parallel was among the chief influences on her own work. Dos Passos broke with Hemingway and Herbert Matthews over what he considered their cavalier attitude towards the war, and their willingness to lend their names to deceptive Stalinist propaganda efforts, including the cover-up of the Soviet responsibility in the murder of José Robles, Dos Passos' friend and translator of his works into Spanish. The trouble with an all-powerful secret police in the hands of fanatics, or of anybody, is that once it gets started, there's no stopping it until it has corrupted the whole body politic. ), Of Communism, Dos Passos later wrote: "I have come to think, especially since my trip to Spain, that civil liberties must be protected at every stage. Spence's Point, his Virginia estate, was designated as a National Historic Landmark in 1971. It was adapted from the 1898 novel La Femme et le pantin by Pierre Louÿs. Manhattan Transfer ist ein Roman des amerikanischen Schriftstellers John Dos Passos, der im Jahr 1925 erschien. Over his long career, Dos Passos wrote 42 novels, as well as numerous poems, essays, and plays, and created more than 400 pieces of art. In the mid-1930s, he wrote a series of scathing articles about Communist political theory. Das Buch gilt als wegweisend für die amerkanische Romankunst des 20. Born in Chicago, Dos Passos was the illegitimate son of John Randolph Dos Passos (1844–1917), a lawyer of half Madeiran Portuguese descent, and Lucy Addison (Sprigg) Madison of Petersburg, Virginia. And his work evolved with his first exhibition at New York's National Arts Club in 1922 and the following year at Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney's Studio Club in New York City. In 1920, his first novel, One Man's Initiation: 1917, was published, and in 1925, his novel Manhattan Transfer became a commercial success. The prize seeks to recognize "American creative writers who have produced a substantial body of significant publication that displays characteristics of John Dos Passos' writing: an intense and original exploration of specifically American themes, an experimental approach to form, and an interest in a wide range of human experiences.". Ausgewählte Artikel zu 'John Dos Passos' jetzt im großen Sortiment von Weltbild.de entdecken. Der Titel bezieht sich auf den Namen eines Umsteigebahnhofs in Harrison, New Jersey. A social revolutionary, Dos Passos came to see the United States as two nations, one rich and one poor. He crisscrossed the United States, too, in search of culture. In 1947, he was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Letters. In 1937, during the Spanish Civil War, Dos Passos returned to Spain with writer Ernest Hemingway, whom he had met in Paris in the 1920s. During World War II, he reported on the war in the Pacific, visiting Hawaii, the Marshall Islands, the Marianas, the Caroline Islands, the Philippines, New Caledonia, New Guinea, and Australia. Breitengrad/1919/ Das große Geld. In den Romanen, aus denen sie besteht - "Der 42. Recognition for his significant contributions to literature came 30 years later in Europe, when, in 1967, he was invited to Rome to accept the prestigious Antonio Feltrinelli Prize for international distinction in literature. … In the following year, he wrote the screenplay for the film The Devil is a Woman, starring Marlene Dietrich and directed by Josef von Sternberg, both exiles from Nazi Germany. '"[citation needed], Science fiction writers have also been influenced by Dos Passos's works. Er studierte in Harvard und ging nach dem Abschluss 1916 nach Europa. In his travel books, Dos Passos was at his merriest, learning new languages, making new friends, and tasting new foods and drinks. While Dos Passos never gained recognition as a great artist, he continued to paint throughout his lifetime and his body of work was well respected. Following his experiences in World War I, he became interested in socialism and pacifism, which also influenced his early work. John Dos Passos, American writer, one of the major novelists of the post-World War I “lost generation,” whose reputation as a social historian and as a radical critic of the quality of American life rests primarily on his trilogy U.S.A. Aus dem Englischen von Dirk van Gunsteren und Nikolaus Stingl. Those ideas also coalesced into the U.S.A. trilogy, of which the first book appeared in 1930. On Armistice Day, he was stationed in Paris, where the U.S. Army Overseas Education Commission allowed him to study anthropology at the Sorbonne. His experiences during the Spanish Civil War led to disillusionment about left-wing politics while also severing his relationship with fellow writer Ernest Hemingway. Dos Passos' pioneering works of nonlinear fiction were a major influence in the field. Cummings, who said there was a "foreignness" about Dos Passos, and "no one at Harvard looked less like an American."[5]. He walked the length of North Carolina’s Outer Banks. Nachdem er selbst im Sanitätsdienst am Ersten Weltkrieg teilgenommen hatte, veröffentlichte John Dos Passos 1921 den Anti-Kriegs-Roman „Drei Soldaten“ (engl. Als Kunststudent in Spanien begann er zu malen und zu schreiben; unter dem Eindruck des ersten Weltkrieges verfasste er zwei pazifistische Romane, bevor er mit dem multiperspektivischen Großstadtpanorama Manhattan Transfer 1925 den amerikanischen Roman … Although John's father married his mother after the death of his first wife in 1910, when John was 14, he refused to formally acknowledge John for another two years. See, e.g., John R. Dos Passo, The Negro Question, 12 Yale Law Journal 467 (1903) (arguing for returning power to states governing African American voting). His short story, "To Howard Hughes: A Modest Proposal" (1974), explored a wealthy man reacting to the threat of war by wielding the power of private atomic reaction. His U.S.A. trilogy, which consists of the novels The 42nd Parallel (1930), 1919 (1932), and The Big Money (1936), was ranked by the Modern Library in 1998 as 23rd of the 100 best English-language novels of the 20th century. Considered one of the Lost Generation writers, Dos Passos published his first novel in 1920, One Man's Initiation: 1917, which was written in the trenches during World War I. In den Romanen, aus denen sie besteht - "Der 42. Mit "Manhattan Transfer" veröffentlichte der US-amerikanische Schriftsteller John Dos Passos 1925 einen Roman, der so neu, innovativ und überraschend war wie die Stadt selbst. He crafted over four hundred drawings, watercolors, and other artworks. Before becoming a leading novelist of his day, John Dos Passos sketched and painted. Es war einmal, zweimal, dreimal in Amerika: John Dos Passos’ „Manhattan Transfer“ ist der New-York-Roman schlechthin. The U.S.A. trilogy is a series of three novels by American writer John Dos Passos, comprising the novels The 42nd Parallel (), 1919 and The Big Money ().The books were first published together in a volume titled U.S.A. by Modern Library in 1937.. John Dos Passos’s most popular book is The 42nd Parallel (U.S.A., #1). John Dos Passos' "USA-Trilogie" ist in der amerikanischen Literatur einzigartig wegen ihrer epischen Gestaltung und panoramischen gesellschaftlichen Perspektive. John Dos Passos has 96 books on Goodreads with 83525 ratings. He was a leading participant in the April 1935 First Americans Writers Congress, sponsored by the Communist-leaning League of American Writers, but he eventually baulked at the idea that Joseph Stalin, leader of the Soviet Union, would have control over creative writers in the United States. Wherever he found the pace and power of modern society to be stifling to individual expression, Dos Passos satirized the institutions at fault. As an artist, Dos Passos created his own cover art for his books, influenced by modernism in 1920s Paris. In: Revue Francaise D´Études Americaines 2011/1 . John Dos Passos´s "The Big Money": Critical Perceptions of the United States during the 1920s. He was both a social and artistic revolutionary, supporting socialist causes while helping to redefine narrative fictional techniques. The son of a wealthy lawyer of Portuguese descent, Dos Passos [19], The British documentary filmmaker Adam Curtis says he has been inspired by Dos Passos and tries to incorporate his technique in film: "Why I love Dos Passos is he tells political stories but at the same time he also lets you know what it feels like to live through them. John Dos Passos wurde 1896 in Chicago geboren. Vor über neunzig Jahren startete die Reihe von John Dos Passos (John Roderigo Dos Passos, *14.01.1896, †28.09.1970). 60 of the Norton-Harjes Ambulance Corps, along with friends Cummings and Robert Hillyer. In his later years, his attention turned to painting scenes around his residences in Maine and Virginia. [18] In the television documentary, The Odyssey of John Dos Passos (1994), writer Norman Mailer said: "Those three volumes of U.S.A. make up the idea of a 'Great American Novel. As a result of socialism gaining popularity in Europe in response to the rise of fascism and Nazism, there was a sharp decline in international sales of his books. In his novel The Big Money, he features a character who is an idealist Communist gradually worn down and destroyed by groupthink in the party. During the summer of 1922, he studied at Hamilton Easter Field's art colony in Ogunquit, Maine. He watched Europe, his boyhood home, be reduced from a world-class civilization to a rubble heap. He explored Portugal, Brazil, Mexico, Russia, and Easter Island and wrote books about them. He explored the prairies of Wyoming and Alaska. "[20], In a 2018 interview, French director Agnès Varda spoke on her inspirations, "I learned a lot from reading. After his mother and he returned to the US, John Dos Passos was enrolled in 1907 at the Choate School (now Choate Rosemary Hall), a private college-preparatory school in Wallingford, Connecticut, under the name John Roderigo Madison. [11] However, his long-time friend journalist John Chamberlain believed that "Dos always remained a libertarian. John Dos Passos John Dos Passos (1896-1970) studierte vor dem ersten Weltkrieg in Harvard, danach an der Sorbonne, dazwischen betätigte er sich auf Seiten der Franzosen und Amerikaner als Krankenwagenfahrer und Sanitäter. Profile von Personen mit dem Namen John Dos Passos anzeigen. Many of his books published during the ensuing ten years used jackets and illustrations that Dos Passos created. In 1928, he traveled to the Soviet Union, curious about its social and political experiment, though he left with mixed impressions. John Dos Passos, 1896-1970, erzählt in "Manhattan Transfer" die Geschichte New Yorks in der Zeit von 1890 bis 1925. He is interred in Yeocomico Churchyard Cemetery in Cople Parish, Westmoreland County, Virginia, near where he had made his home. John Dos Passos wurde 1896 in Chicago geboren. Analysis of John Dos Passos’s Novels By Nasrullah Mambrol on June 1, 2018 • ( 0) Readers of Dos Passos’s unusual novels have attempted to define the writer as a chronicler, a historian, or a critic of twentieth century America. Der 42. He studied America's cities: New York City, Boston, Baltimore, New Orleans, Chicago, and San Antonio. He has revived the heart and mind of Jefferson, not by psychoanalytical lucubrations or soulful gush, but in the main by telling story after story of those whose lives and thoughts impinged upon his. It toured to several locations throughout the United States. In July 1917, with World War I raging in Europe, Dos Passos volunteered for the S.S.U. Most journalism does not acknowledge that people live at least as much in their heads as they do in the world. John Dos Passos wurde 1896 in Chicago geboren. The young man waits on the side of the road; the plane has gone; thumb moves in a small arc when a car tears hissing past. [21], The John Dos Passos Prize is a literary award given annually by the Department of English and Modern Languages at Longwood University. Er studierte in Harvard und ging nach dem Abschluss 1916 nach Europa. Julia Schubert John Roderigo Dos Passos (/dɒsˈpæsəs, -sɒs/;[1][2] January 14, 1896 – September 28, 1970) was an American novelist, most notable for his U.S.A. trilogy. "[8], Dos Passos had attended the 1932 Democratic National Convention and subsequently wrote an article for The New Republic in which he harshly criticized the selection of Franklin Delano Roosevelt as the party's nominee. [citation needed][9], Between 1942 and 1945, Dos Passos worked as a journalist and war correspondent, covering American operations in the Pacific and the post-World War II situation in Frankfurt, Berlin, Munich and Vienna.[10]. 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He wrote over forty books, including plays, poetry, novels, biographies, histories, and memoirs. I want to drink the cup to the dregs—no—I want to swallow it and still have it to look at. In Spain, I am sure that the introduction of GPU methods by the Communists did as much harm as their tank men, pilots, and experienced military men did good. Although Dos Passos' partisans have contended that his later work was ignored because of his changing politics, some critics argue that the quality of his novels declined following U.S.A, largely due to the his political evolution and criticism of Marxism. Though each novel stands on its own, the trilogy is designed to be read as a whole. His 1925 novel about life in New York City, titled Manhattan Transfer, was a commercial success, and introduced experimental stream-of-consciousness techniques. Later, he also worked as a volunteer ambulance driver with the American Red Cross in north-central Italy. John Dos Passos: USA-Trilogie Aus dem Englischen von Dirk van Gunsteren und Nikolaus Stingl. He traveled the Syrian Desert from Baghdad to Damascus by camel caravan, after recovering from malaria. In den Romanen, aus denen sie besteht - … [3] John Randolph Dos Passos was an authority on trusts, and a staunch supporter of the powerful industrial conglomerates that his son expressly criticized in his fictional works during the 1920s and 1930s.[4]. John Dos Passos' "USA-Trilogie" ist in der amerikanischen Literatur einzigartig wegen ihrer epischen Gestaltung und panoramischen gesellschaftlichen Perspektive. The novel reflects the author's sympathy, at the time of writing, for the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) and his outrage at its suppression, for which the book expresses a deep grudge for President Woodrow Wilson. Als Kunststudent in Spanien begann er zu malen und zu schreiben; unter dem Eindruck des ersten Weltkrieges verfasste er zwei pazifistische Romane, bevor er mit dem multiperspektivischen Großstadtpanorama Manhattan Transfer 1925 den amerikanischen Roman … John Roderigo Dos Passos was an American novelist, most notable for his U.S.A. trilogy. John Dos Passos' "USA-Trilogie" ist in der amerikanischen Literatur einzigartig wegen ihrer epischen Gestaltung und panoramischen gesellschaftlichen Perspektive. John Dos Passos. 1950). In nearly all his works, Dos Passos portrayed the struggle between individuals and systems. But it was his love of people, in all their beguiling diversity, that animated even his darkest satire. Alice Beja: Artfulness and Artlessness, the Literary and Political Uses of Impersonality in John Dos Passos´Trilogy. Following his graduation cum laude in 1916,[6] Dos Passos traveled to Spain to study art and architecture. He hiked the Pyrenees and the Caucasus Mountains. He wandered England, Belgium, Spain, France, Italy, Turkey, Greece, Egypt, Armenia, Iraq, Iran, and Morocco. John Rodrigo Dos Passos (January 14, 1896 — September 28, 1970) was an important twentieth-century American novelist and artist. In early 2001, an exhibition titled The Art of John Dos Passos opened at the Queens Borough Library in New York City. John Dos Passos' "USA-Trilogie" ist in der amerikanischen Literatur einzigartig wegen ihrer epischen Gestaltung und panoramischen gesellschaftlichen Perspektive. In 1936—1937, Dos Passos served on the American Committee for the Defense of Leon Trotsky, commonly known as the "Dewey Commission", with other notable figures such as Sidney Hook, Reinhold Niebuhr, Norman Thomas, Edmund Wilson, and chairman John Dewey.
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