Manhattan Transfer is a novel by John Dos Passos published in 1925. A novel (from Italian novella, Spanish novela, French nouvelle for "new" "news" or "short story John Roderigo Dos Passos ( January 14, 1896 &ndash September 28, 1970) was an American Novelist and artist Year 1925 ( MCMXXV) was a Common year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. It focuses on the urban life of New York City in the Jazz Age as told through a series of overlapping individual stories. The City of New York The Jazz Age describes the period from 1918-1929 the years after the end of World War I, continuing through the Roaring Twenties and ending with the rise of the
It is considered to be one of Dos Passos' most important works. The book attacks the consumerism and social indifference of contemporary urban life, portraying a Manhattan that is merciless yet teeming with energy and restlessness. Manhattan Island, in New York Harbor, is much the largest part of the Borough of Manhattan, one of the Five Boroughs which form the City of New York The book shows some of Dos Passos' experimental writing techniques and narrative collages that would be become more pronounced in his U.S.A. trilogy and other later works. A collage (From the coller to glue is a work of formal art primarily in the Visual arts, made from an assemblage of different forms thus creating a new whole The USA Trilogy is the major work of American writer John Dos Passos, comprising the novels The 42nd Parallel (1930 1919, also known as Nineteen The technique in Manhattan Transfer was inspired in part by James Joyce's Ulysses (1922), T. S. Eliot's The Waste Land, and experiments with film collage by Soviet director Sergei Eisenstein. James Augustine Aloysius Joyce (2 February 1882 &ndash 13 January 1941 was an Irish expatriate writer widely considered to be one of the most influential writers of the Ulysses is a novel by James Joyce, first serialized in parts in the American journal The Little Review from March 1918 to December 1920 Thomas Stearns Eliot, OM (September 26 1888 – January 4 1965 was a poet Dramatist, and Literary critic. The Waste Land ( 1922) is a highly influential 434-line modernist poem by T Sergei Mikhailovich Eisenstein (Сергей Михайлович Эйзенштейн January 23, 1898 &ndash February 11, 1948) was
Characters
- Bud Korpenning
- George Baldwin
- the Mc Niels
- John Oglethorpe
- Stan Emery
- Congo Jake
- Jimmy Herf
- the Merivales
- Ellen Thatcher
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