Manhattan Transfer: John Dos Passos (Penguin Modern Classics)

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Time with characters is spent predominantly in bars and, as a consequence, conversations are shallow and empty. Non è stata una lettura semplice, il romanzo è post modernista ante litteram, ciò che mi ha spinto ad andare avanti sono stati i passi dedicati a New York, una città che ho snobbato per molti anni e che poi ha finito per ammaliarmi.

Leaving aside Moby Dick, the USA trilogy was once considered the leading contender for the Great American Novel, and I think it still measures up. It is a masterpiece of modern fiction and a lasting tribute to the dual-edged nature of the American dream. So many of the people in Manhattan Transfer are like those apples, just tumbling down a chute and getting caught in the jaws of the press. Matt has that innate drive in him to survive, to make do with what he has within the situation he’s in.

As an artist, Dos Passos created his own cover art for his books, influenced by modernism in 1920s Paris. His began a series of panoramic epics of American life with the USA trilogy, using the same technique and tracing, through interwoven biographies, the story of America from the early twentieth century to the onset of the Great Depression in 1929. We don’t share your credit card details with third-party sellers, and we don’t sell your information to others. Wall Street, το τρίξιμο από τις ράγες του υπόγειου σιδηρόδρομου, οι θεατρινισμοί των ηθοποιών, τα μουγκρητά των μεθυσμένων αλκοολικών, οι φωνές των εραστών που αλλάζουν κρεββάτια με την ίδια ευκολία που δίνει στα πάντα αυτή η μεγάλη, υπέροχη, σκληρή πόλη, που το χρήμα αλλάζει χέρια με φρενήρεις ρυθμούς ενώ άλλοι ανεβαίνουν κοινωνικά κι άλλοι, μην αντέχοντας την πίεση, ή από κακή εκτίμηση, ή μην έχοντας απλώς "αυτό που χρειάζεται" βυθίζονται και καταστρέφονται.

Once in a while that can make for an interesting story, although it usually reads as a social manifesto (i.Another quirk of Dos Passos is mashing together subsequent interestingadjectives and occasionally relatedverbs into singlewords.