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John Roderigo Dos Passos byl americký prozaik, dramatik, esejista a reportér. Během své dlouhé a úspěšné spisovatelské kariéry napsal 42 románů, celkem je autorem více než 400 uměleckých děl. Wikipedia  

✵ 14. leden 1896 – 28. září 1970   •   Další jména John Roderigo Dos Passos
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“A writer who writes straight is the architect of history.”

Introduction to 1932 Modern Library edition of Three Soldiers
Kontext: 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
Kontext: 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.

“Great works of the imagination are not produced quickly nor do they take quick effect on the popular mind.”

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]”

John Dos Passos kniha 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

“How did they pick John Doe?”

John Dos Passos kniha Manhattan Transfer

Manhattan Transfer (1925)

“All right we are two nations.”

John Dos Passos kniha Manhattan Transfer

The Big Money* [1936]
Manhattan Transfer (1925)

“[Hemingway] always used to bawl me out for including so much topical stuff. He always claimed that was a great mistake, that in fifty years nobody would understand. He may have been right; it's getting to be true.”

Discussion session with students at Union College, Oct 16 1968, reproduced in John Dos Passos: The Major Nonfictional Prose, ed. Donald Pizer

“Organization kills.”

Diary, Oct 1 1918, reproduced in The Fourteenth Chronicle: Letters and Diaries of John Dos Passos, ed. Townsend Ludington

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