Manhattan Transfer, considered to be one of Dos Passos' most important works, describes the development of urban life in New York City from the Gilded Age to the Jazz Age as told through a series of overlapping individual stories, primarily, of four people living in Manhattan from the 1890s to the late 1920s. The book attacks the consumerism and social indifference of contemporary urban life, portraying a Manhattan that is merciless yet teeming with energy and restlessness. The book shows ...

Ce grand roman raconte les aventures politiques et amoureuses de Glenn Spotswood, jeune Américain idéaliste. Attiré par le Parti communiste, il y connaît la plus forte exaltation, avant d'être déçu. Il s'engage pour la guerre d'Espagne, où de nouvelles désillusions l'attendent, et où il trouvera la mort. À travers un destin tragique, Dos Passos peint les milieux progressistes sous l'ère Roosevelt, le grand tournant de toute une génération.

The scene is the end of the Gilded Age in New York City. Ellen Thatcher is a young girl who aspires to be an actress. Young Jimmy Herf returns after years abroad, and rejects business school, becoming a reporter. George Baldwin is a lawyer who wins a big case, but continues to struggle to grow his business, eventually entering politics. The novel weaves the lives of these characters together throughout the narrative.*Manhattan Transfer* also has a good number minor characters, some...

This gorgeous new paperback edition collects the three volumes of John Dos Passos’s acclaimed U.S.A. trilogy, a foundational work of 20th-century American literature named one of the best books of the twentieth century by the Modern Library, and a "linguistically adventurous national portrait for a precarious age—his, and ours" (The New Yorker).The U.S.A. trilogy, comprised of the novels The 42nd Parallel, 1919, and The Big M...

La gran novela urbana de Nueva York.En Nueva York, Jimmy Herf, huérfano de padre y madre, es adoptado por su tío, y desde muy joven empieza a trabajar como periodista. Después combate en la guerra, se enamora y se casa con Hellen Thatcher, una actriz divorciada que le abandona por un rico abogado cuando Jimmy pierde el trabajo y se ve obligado a vivir pobremente, hasta que un día en una reunión de amigos anuncia que va a dejar la ciudad.Esta espléndida nove...

John Roderigo Dos Passos (January 14, 1896 – September 28, 1970) was a radical American novelist and artist active in the first half of the twentieth century. He was born in Chicago, Illinois and he went on to Harvard College, graduating in 1916. He was well-traveled, visiting Europe and the Middle East, where he learned about literature, art, and architecture. During World War I he was a member of the American Volunteer Motor Ambulance Corps in Paris and Italy, later joining the U.S. Army...

Manhattan Transfer di John Dos Passos è un capolavoro della narrativa modernista, capace di creare un ritratto vivido e impressionista di una New York brulicante e sfaccettata.Attraverso le storie intrecciate dei protagonisti, la città a cavallo tra i Ruggenti anni Venti e la mitica Età del Jazz appare in fervente trasformazione, complicata, fuori controllo. Da Wall Street al lungomare, dalla Bowery al Village, dai grandi viali della città ai suoi vicoli grintosi, i suo...

La trilogia U.S.A. (Il 42° parallelo, Millenovecentodiciannove e Un mucchio di quattrini) racconta i primi trent'anni del XX secolo americano e rappresenta la più importante e longeva matrice del "grande romanzo americano". John Dos Passos coniuga l'estro formale e avanguardistico degli anni Venti con lo scavo storico, culturale e linguistico nelle radici nazionali della Grande Depressione; mette a nudo i costi inflitti al tessuto sociale e psicologico d...

Il y a ceux qui y débarquent, s’y précipitent, s’y abandonnent. Il y a ceux qui en reviennent, désillusionnés. New York, la ville où chacun a sa chance… Orphelin issu d’une famille fortunée, Jimmy Herf est contraint de devenir journaliste ; George Baldwin, avocat, enrichit son cabinet grâce à une juteuse affaire de dommages-intérêts ; Joe Harland, qu’on surnommait le ' Sorcier de Wall Street ', est fauché et alcoolique, tandis que la petite Ellen devient une comédienne à succès et prend un...

The company stood at attention, each man looking straight before him at the empty parade ground, where the cinder piles showed purple with evening. On the wind that smelt of barracks and disinfectant there was a faint greasiness of food cooking. At the other side of the wide field long lines of men shuffled slowly into the narrow wooden shanty that was the mess hall. Chins down, chests out, legs twitching and tired from the afternoon's drilling, the company stood at attention. Each man sta...

‘Manhattan Transfer,’ considered by many to be John Dos Passos's greatest work, was first published in 1925. There are several separate stories that overlap one another. With these stories, the novel describes the development of urban life that took place in New York City from the Gilded Age to the Jazz Age. It is believed to be one of the most influential books of Dos Passos. The novel presents Manhattan as a place that is quite merciless, but it teems with activity and energy. The author...

"It is not simply that [Dos Passos] has a keen eye for people, but that he has a keen eye for so many different kinds of people."— The New York TimesMarking the end of "one of the most ambitious projects that an American novelist has ever undertaken" ( Time), The Big Money brings us back to America after the Great War, a nation on the upswing. Industrialism booms. The stock market surges. Lindbergh takes his solo flight. Henry Ford makes automobil...