"I regard Dos Passos as the greatest writer of our time." -Jean-Paul Sartre
One of the great antiwar books in American literature, John Dos Passos's brutally realistic novel of World War I is chillingly contemporary in its portrayal of men stripped of their free will by the mindless violence of war. Focusing on John Andrews, a Harvard aesthete who joins the army out of idealism, and his two buddies, a workingclass Italian American and an Indiana farm boy, Dos Passos portrays their disillusionment with the tyranny, red tape, and boredom of the military. Goaded beyond endurance, they react with bitterness, rage, and ultimately, for one, murder.
Dos Passos's own distrust of institutions, his championing of the common man, and his dedication to individual freedoms are brought together in this powerful novel that reads like a documentary of the human spirit.
Renowned for his innovations in cinematic literary technique and stream-of-consciousness writing, Dos Passos takes his place among his contemporaries, Ernest Hemingway and William Faulkner, as a chronicler of the American experience. His later works include Manhattan Transfer and the USA. trilogy.
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