John Dos Passos
Nació 1896 · Murió 1970
De Chicago, Illinois, United States · Nacionalidad: United States · Escribe ficción y no ficción
John Roderigo Dos Passos (14 de enero de 1896 – 28 de septiembre de 1970) fue un novelista estadounidense, más conocido por su trilogía U.S.A. En 1920 se publicó su primera novela, *One Man's Initiation: 1917*, y en 1925 su obra *Manhattan Transfer* se convirtió en un éxito comercial. Su trilogía U.S.A., compuesta por las novelas *The 42nd Parallel* (1930), *1919* (1932) y *The Big Money* (1936), fue clasificada por la Modern Library en 1998 como la número 23 de los 100 mejores novelas en inglés del siglo XX. Escrita en forma experimental y no lineal, la trilogía combina elementos de biografía e informes periodísticos para retratar el panorama de la cultura estadounidense a principios del siglo XX.
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“The mind of a generation is its speech. A writer makes aspects of that speech enduring by putting them in print. He whittles at the words and phrases of today and makes of them forms to set the mind of tomorrow’s generation.”
Introduction to 1932 Modern Library edition of Three SoldiersEn inglés “Humanity has a strange fondness for following processions. Get four men following a banner down the street, and, if that banner is inscribed with rhymes of pleasant optimism, in an hour, all the town will be afoot, ready to march to whatever tune the leaders care to play.”
"A Humble Protest," Harvard Monthly, 1916En inglés “A satirist is a man whose flesh creeps so at the ugly and the savage and the incongruous aspects of society that he has to express them as brutally and nakedly as possible to get relief.”
"Grosz Comes to America," Esquire, 1936En inglés “There is a part of me in every character, naturally. That’s why novelists rarely write good autobiographies. You start one and it becomes another novel - bound to.”
"An Interview with Mr. John Dos Passos," New York Times, Nov 23 1941En inglés
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Los libros de John Dos Passos en orden
Los libros de John Dos Passos en el orden en que se publicaron, de One Man's initiation--1917 (1920) a Rosinante to the Road Again (2011).
- 1One Man's initiation--1917
One Man's initiation--19171920 - 2Three Soldiers
Three Soldiers1921 - 3Streets of Night
Streets of Night1923 - 4Manhattan Transfer
Manhattan Transfer1925 - 5El paralelo 42
El paralelo 421930 - 6U.S.A
U.S.A1930 - 7The Big Money
The Big Money1936 - 8First Encounter
First Encounter1945 - 9The Prospect Before Us
The Prospect Before Us1950 - 10District of Columbia
District of Columbia1952 - 11Most Likely to Succeed
Most Likely to Succeed1954 - 12The Theme Is Freedom
The Theme Is Freedom1956 - 13Midcentury
Midcentury1961 - 14Brazil on the Move
Brazil on the Move1963 - 15Travel Books and Other Writings
Travel Books and Other Writings2003 - 16Viajes De Entreguerras
Viajes De Entreguerras2006 - 17One Man's Initiation
One Man's Initiation2007 - 18Orient Express
Orient Express2011 - 19Rosinante to the Road Again
Rosinante to the Road Again2011 - 20Century's Ebb
Century's Ebb - 21Fourteenth Chronicle: Letters and Diaries of John Dos Passos
Fourteenth Chronicle: Letters and Diaries of John Dos Passos - 22John Dos Passos' Correspondence with Arthur K. McComb, or, "
John Dos Passos' Correspondence with Arthur K. McComb, or, "Learn to Sing the Carmagnole" - 23Tres Soldados
Tres Soldados