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first installment of the sitelinkUSA Trilogy by John Dos Passos bounces between descriptions of the lives of several different fictional characters while abruptly inserting between these depictions nonfictional mini biographies of prominent Americans and short vignettes labeled as “Newsreel” newspaper headlines, fragments of news stories, and song lyrics and “The Camera Eye” stream of consciousness thinking presumably by the author.
The overall effect of reading through this hodgepodge of narrative styles is a reasonably thorough rendering of life in the United States during the beginning years of theth century prior to WWI.


The fictional characters seem to include an abundance of revolutionaries, communists, antiwar rants, sitelinkWobblies, and women who need to marry due to inconvenient pregnancies.
Historians have depicted these sorts of characters as inconsequential discontents, so some readers today may be surprised that the author chose them to represent that era.
I think people today do not realize how prevalent political and social discontent was at the time.
It was a time that led to the sitelinkprogressive movement of the early twentieth century,

Another characteristic of these fictional characters which is probably less surprisingthey all seem to have a hard time making ends meet and they all want to get more money.
Another characteristic comes to mindnone of the marriages seem to be very happy, Also, single women are propositioned left and right this isyears prior to MeToo,

Over this coming summer I plan to read the next two installments of this trilogy, and The Big Money.
This first book was published in, In case youre wanting to know why this book is titled “nd Parallel” you will want to read this

In my opinion the following isnt a very good reason for the title, however I havent found anything better:

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. . Also notable is obviously the title, decoded in a prefatory note in the first edition of Thend Parallel when it was published as a standalone novel inthe title comes from anbook, American Climatology, which suggested that North American storms followed thend Parallel.
The novel seemed to follow its characters

as if they were so many storms crossing the continent" Michael Denning, The Cultural Front,.
Published in, this first book in the USA trilogy is set in various locations across the US during.
It portrays “the American experience” during these years, It is quite creative for its time, The characters are fictional, but it also includes segments of nonfiction, such as headlines from the newsreels, biographies of notable people, song lyrics, and the authors own memories.
These merge into each other without separation or punctuation, There is a lot of discussion and involvement in the labor movement,

I particularly enjoyed the newsreels, They provide dates for the storyline, evoke a feeling for the time period, and often provide an implied criticism of what was just occurred in the narrative, taking to task some of the characters actions.
This is more implied than stated but it is relatively easy to read between the lines, The author seems to be providing social commentary on “yellow journalism,” propaganda, and advertising in contributing to materialism.


It is a slice of the past, complete with viewpoints by the characters, not the author that will not sit well with a modern audience.
For example, pretty much every ethnic slur is included in the dialogue, Most of the characters are rather unpleasant, This book is considered a classic so Im glad I read it but also glad to be finished.

برای شناختن آمریکا تاریخ نخوانید دوس پاسوس بخوانید. دوس پاسوس با قلمش چنان در این کتاب به زیر پوست آمریکای پیش از جنگ اول رخنه کرده است که حیرت زده می شوید. او قلم را مانند
یک دوربین عکاسی در گوشه کنار آن مقطع از تاریخ آمریکا می چرخاند تا از پس شخصیت ها و کنش های اجتماعی آن دوره کلاژهایی جالب و جذاب از جامعه ی زیر پوستی آمریکا ثبت کند. روایتی که از این کلاژها به خواننده عرضه می شود در پس ظاهر فریبنده اش با انباشتی از فساد و تباهی توام است. و قابل پیش بینی است بنایی که بر چنین شالوده ای ساخته شده است همچنان همانی می تواند باشد که بوده است.
پ. ن: حیف که کمی زبان مترجم در ترجمه این شاهکار فخیمانه است. This novel is such a distinct achievement that I haven't written a review before now, and even though this is my third time through the novel, this isn't really a review either.
What I can say is that this novel in spite of its setting in the earlyth century is nevertheless written in such a contemporary and innovative way that it makes me realize there is no such thing as progress in the arts, or even evolution, but rather that we have extraordinary masterful artists that come along now and then who write in completely new and exhilarating ways.
. . and we will always have that to look forward to in the future, as long as their are storytellers and people who want to hear their stories.
Must admit, don't think I ever heard of Dos Passos until I started reading this trilogy for the Modern Library top, but glad I did.
Easy reading format, historical context, and I do like history, about the interesting early part of the century in of course, the USA.


Each chapter is titled with a character's name and each evolves, through their own eyes, and when paths cross, through others.
Most characters are carried onto the other books, Supposedly the books can be read on their own, but I think you would always wonder what you missed.
For me the stories were compelling and I couldn't stop reading about them,

Between chapters DP sometimes has a couple pages about a famous person of the era.
Some stood the test of history amp we know them today, Edison but some are more obscure and those to me were the more interesting ones.


Another item between chapters are bits of text from newsreels of the day, They give the setting of the times
and to me show how the news is totally unrelated to every day life.


Yet another item is the Camera Eye, which shows some activity that is going on with a person, but to me is out of context so doesn't add much to the story.
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