Origine: Dalla prefazione alla trilogia U.S.A., in Il 42º parallelo (The 42nd Parallel, 1930), traduzione di Cesare Pavese, BUR, Milano, 2003, pp. 7-8. ISBN 88-17-10675-7
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Origine: In Ronzinante di nuovo in viaggio, a cura di Francesco Cappellini, Via del Vento, Pistoia, 2011. ISBN 9788862260589
John Dos Passos: Frasi in inglese
“A writer who writes straight is the architect of history.”
Introduction to 1932 Modern Library edition of Three Soldiers
Contesto: 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. That's history. A writer who writes straight is the architect of history.
“If there is a special Hell for writers it would be in the forced contemplation of their own works”
"Looking Back on U.S.A.," New York Times, Oct 25 1959
Contesto: If there is a special Hell for writers it would be in the forced contemplation of their own works, with all the misconceptions, the omissions, the failures that any finished work of art implies.
"The Business of a Novelist," review of William Rollins's The Shadow Before, 1934
"An Interview with Mr. John Dos Passos," New York Times, Nov 23 1941
"Sacco and Vanzetti," review of Eugene Lyons's The Life and Death of Sacco and Vanzetti, Nov 1927
Interview, Feb 3 1964, reproduced in Talks With Authors, ed. Charles F. Madden
Remark at the International PEN Club conference, Sept 11-13 1941, reproduced in John Dos Passos: The Major Nonfictional Prose, ed. Donald Pizer
“The Body of an American, **1919* [1932]”
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Manhattan Transfer
Manhattan Transfer (1925)
“Walt Whitman's a hell of a lot more revolutionary than any Russian poet I've ever heard of.”
Response to the questionnaire "Whiter the American Writer?" in Modern Quarterly, Summer 1932
“All right we are two nations.”
John Dos Passos
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Manhattan Transfer
The Big Money* [1936]
Manhattan Transfer (1925)
Presentation at Carleton College, Nov 30 1960
"A Humble Protest," Harvard Monthly, 1916
"Statement of Belief," Bookman, Sept 1928
"Conversation with Dos Passos," New Leader, Feb 23 1959
Discussion session with students at Union College, Oct 16 1968, reproduced in John Dos Passos: The Major Nonfictional Prose, ed. Donald Pizer
Diary, Oct 1 1918, reproduced in The Fourteenth Chronicle: Letters and Diaries of John Dos Passos, ed. Townsend Ludington
