Manhattan Transfer: John Dos Passos (Penguin Modern Classics)

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I can see how this depiction of New York would have had such an effect on you, and it was wonderful to hear about the role that Manhattan Transfer played in shaping your life and choices. In it we meet a large ensemble cast of characters who are struggling, failing, and some few succeeding in the brutally, exciting New York City of the Jazz Age. It also struck me as a harsh place with a razor-sharp competitive edge, where everyone was striving to get ahead and yet so many were left behind. Per cercare di dare un parametro a chi volesse leggere il libro, scriverò che l’Ulysses di Joyce è, fra i libri che ho letto, quello più simile a Manhattan Transfer, pur con significativi distinguo.

Joe Harland—Known as the "Wizard of Wall Street", he has won and lost several fortunes over the years. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License; additional terms may apply. Del resto, non un briciolo di senso artistico, non un bel monumento, non atmosfera storica: ecco New York». It was possible to win big, but it was also possible to fall hard, and many accomplished both in quick succession. On the one hand, it is highly critical of capitalism and materialism and of the pursuit of wealth which drives the lives of its people.

He received a first-class education at The Choate School, in Connecticut, in 1907, under the name John Roderigo Madison. As for a reading experience, it is refreshing and relatively fast-moving, perhaps less-so than 42 Parallel which I started just after this one. Bâti à partir d'un ensemble de scènes courtes sans liens apparents entre elles, Manhattan Transfer est un kaleïdoscope pour voyager dans le temps ; au fond du tube et en vrac, apparaissent tous les personnages du New York des années 20.Next thing you know is Manhattan is located on a sea of grey goo surrounded by other domes containing alien cities. The fear is that they might be part of an intergalactic zoo exhibit or worse, the sole survivors of planets due for destruction. The pressure has become too great, and Bud loses hope that he will be able to make a life for himself in the city. The story coalesces around a handful of characters, the main protagonist being Matt, a military bigwig who just arrived in Manhattan before 'lift off' if you will.

Dos Passos doesn't use the mythical method of Joyce or the detailed symbolism, so this book is considerably less dense. The book attacks the consumerism and social indifference of contemporary American urban life, portraying a Manhattan that is merciless yet teeming with energy, restlessness, and possibilities that too few will ultimately share.OK, the manure-smelling wooden tunnel was gone by the time I arrived in the early 2000s, but everything else is remarkably familiar.

I enjoyed reading each character’s story but I wasn’t attached to any of them (including NYC) and I found that I had to muddle through and fight back some yawns. Et ils se concrétisent enfin dans les rebondissement, souvent tirés du chapeau d’une espèce de David Copperfield à la manque, qui ne sait à mon sens pas trop où il va.It also covers a considerable span of years, though you have to deduce this from internal references - no clues are given. Whilst reading this 'historical novel', which starts at the turn of 19th/20th century and continues into the 1920s, I could not get over that fact that it was, in fact, published 85 years ago. Oglethorpe finally snaps, and stands outside Stan's apartment building one night screaming in a drunken fury. The longest-living author of this work died in 1970, so this work is in the public domain in countries and areas where the copyright term is the author's life plus 53 years or less. The Joycean influence comes in the love of compound words but also in the general construction of the work: brief scenes, which are not given any context or background.