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'My literary hero is John Dos Passos' - Adam Curtis (filmmaker) 'A modernist masterpiece, capturing ... the fragmented lives it sketches, in a dazzling kaleidoscope of New York City in the 1920s' Christopher Hudson, Evening Standard'Dos Passos has invented only one thing, an art of story-telling. But that is enough to create a universe' Jean-Paul Sartre'The best modern book about New York'D.H. LawrenceA modernist masterwork that has more in common with films than traditional novels, John Dos Passos' Manhattan Transfer includes an introduction by Jay McInerney in Penguin Modern Classics.A colourful, multi-faceted chronicle of New York in the early 1920s, Manhattan Transfer ranks with James Joyce's Ulysses as a powerful and often lyrical meditation on the modern city. Using experimental montage techniques borrowed from the cinema, vivid descriptions and bursts of overheard conversation, and the jumbled case histories of a picaresque cast of characters from dockside crapshooters to high-society flappers, Dos Passos constructs a brilliant impressionistic portrait of New York City as a great futuristic machine filled with motion, drama and human tragedy. John Dos Passos (1896-1970) was born in Chicago, the son of an eminent lawyer. After graduating from Harvard he served in the US Army Medical Corps during the First World War, and dabbled in journalism before embarking on life as a writer. In 1925 he published Manhattan Transfer, his first experimental novel in what was to become his peculiar style - a mixture of fact and fiction. 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.

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John Dos Passos (1896-1970), a member of the Lost Generation, was the author of more than forty works of fiction and nonfiction, including THREE SOLDIERS and MANHATTAN TRANSFER.

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  • PublisherFUTURO GALLI
  • Publication date1990
  • ISBN 10 2737626781
  • ISBN 13 9782737626784
  • BindingPaperback
  • Number of pages240
  • IllustratorHyman Miles
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Paperback. Condition: NEUF. Hyman, Miles (illustrator). "Publié en 1925 aux États-Unis et moins de trois ans plus tard chez Gallimard, Manhattan Transfer possède la force immuable des textes charnières. Par la brutale irruption d'une écriture nerveuse et scintillante où tout l'asphalte suinte de la lumière, Manhattan Transfer manifesta la rupture avec le courant esthétique des années 20 et ouvrit la voie à la littérature sociale de la décennie suivante. Pour Dos Passos lui-même, sans ce livre où il délaisse l'individu pour mieux en souligner ce qui nie ou broie son existence, des hommes et des femmes se pressent, écrasés, bousculés, comme des pommes qu'on fait rouler dans un pressoir, sans cette comédie inhumaine, il n'aurait pu écrire USA, son oeuvre majeure. Une trilogie qui comprend Le 42e parallèle, L'An premier du siècle, La Grosse Galette. [.] Le procédé narratif de Manhattan Transfer utilise plusieurs techniques:montage de séquences rapides où alternent collages d'articles de journaux ou textes de chansons populaires, justaposition d'écritures différentes faisant glisser sans transition le lecteur d'un lieu à un autre, d'un personnage à un autre. La nature même de ce roman multivision en justifiait un traitement par l'image. New-yorkais exilé à Paris, Miles Hyman, par la qualité de son graphisme et son extrême attention à la lumière qui baigne ce livre, a travaillé dans le sens même du texte. Son style diffère et alterne selon les rythmes ou les thèmes que développe Dos Passos, créant ainsi une unité dans cette diversité; la richesse de nuances et la texture des gris modèlent les volumes verticaux d'une architecture imposante qui domine ces silhouettes humaines mais auxquelles Hyman donne un visage. Beau comme la rencontre qui n'était pas fortuite." Bernard Wallet. - Nombre de page(s) : 236 p. - Poids : 0g - Langue : fre - Genre : Bandes dessinées adultes / Comics. Seller Inventory # N9782737626784

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