Fülszöveg
PENGUIN TWENTIETH - CENTURY CLASSICS
JOHN DOS PASSOS
Manhattan Transfer
WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY JAY McINERNEY
'A novel of the very first importance a book which the idle
reader can devour yet which the literary analyst must take as
possibfy inaugurating, at long lasty the vast and blazing
dawn we have awaited
Thus wrote Sinclair Lewis when Manhattan Transfer, one of the great modernist
epics of the twentieth century, first appeared in 192 5. A colourful, multi- faceted
chronicle of New York in the early 1920s, this novel ranks with Doblin's
Berlin Alexanderplatz and Joyce's Ulysses as a powerful and often lyrical meditation
on the modern city.
Using experimental montage and collage techniques borrowed from
the cinema, and the jumbled case histories of a picaresque range of characters
from dockside crapshooters to high-society flappers, Dos Passos constructs
a brilliant picture of New York City as a great futuristic machine filled with
motion, drama and human...
Tovább
Fülszöveg
PENGUIN TWENTIETH - CENTURY CLASSICS
JOHN DOS PASSOS
Manhattan Transfer
WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY JAY McINERNEY
'A novel of the very first importance a book which the idle
reader can devour yet which the literary analyst must take as
possibfy inaugurating, at long lasty the vast and blazing
dawn we have awaited
Thus wrote Sinclair Lewis when Manhattan Transfer, one of the great modernist
epics of the twentieth century, first appeared in 192 5. A colourful, multi- faceted
chronicle of New York in the early 1920s, this novel ranks with Doblin's
Berlin Alexanderplatz and Joyce's Ulysses as a powerful and often lyrical meditation
on the modern city.
Using experimental montage and collage techniques borrowed from
the cinema, and the jumbled case histories of a picaresque range of characters
from dockside crapshooters to high-society flappers, Dos Passos constructs
a brilliant picture of New York City as a great futuristic machine filled with
motion, drama and human tragedy.
George Steiner has called Dos Passos 'the principal literary influence
on the twentieth century'.
The cover shows Silver Dollar Bar by Edward Burra in the York City Art Gallery
(photo courtesy of the Alex Reid & Lefevre Gallery, London)
Vissza