Manhattan
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Manhattan
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John Dos Passos (1896-1970) was an American writer of Portuguese descent, novelist, playwright and essayist who became a classic of American literature during his lifetime. His inimitable creative handwriting and boldness in the search for new forms earned him fame as an experimental artist, and the works he created represent a unique panorama of American life at the dawn of the XX century. The main work and the pinnacle of Dos Passos's work is the monumental epic "USA".
The novel "Manhattan" is one of the most important in the work of Dos Passos and one of his most daring experiments. The chain of chaotically linked fates in the boiling cauldron of purposeful, energetic, but indifferent and cruel city - the matrix of all the megacities of the world - creates an unusually acute sense of time between the "panic of 1893", which ended the "gilded age" of recovery after the Civil War of the North and South, and the colossal stock market crash of 1929, plunging the country into the Great Depression. The Roaring Twenties, a time of modernization, rapid development, and the boldest experiments. In its time, the novel aroused the interest of Sergei Eisenstein, whose work obviously influenced Dos Passos. But later the writer exposed the activities of the GPU in Spain, and his work was inaccessible to Soviet readers for many decades; the novel's translator, Valentin Stenich, was shot in 1938.
The novel "Manhattan" is one of the most important in the work of Dos Passos and one of his most daring experiments. The chain of chaotically linked fates in the boiling cauldron of purposeful, energetic, but indifferent and cruel city - the matrix of all the megacities of the world - creates an unusually acute sense of time between the "panic of 1893", which ended the "gilded age" of recovery after the Civil War of the North and South, and the colossal stock market crash of 1929, plunging the country into the Great Depression. The Roaring Twenties, a time of modernization, rapid development, and the boldest experiments. In its time, the novel aroused the interest of Sergei Eisenstein, whose work obviously influenced Dos Passos. But later the writer exposed the activities of the GPU in Spain, and his work was inaccessible to Soviet readers for many decades; the novel's translator, Valentin Stenich, was shot in 1938.
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