Manhattan Transfer (2021) by John Dos Passos (.ePUB)
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Manhattan Transfer (2021) by John Dos Passos
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Overview: Manhattan Transfer is John Dos Passos’s landmark modernist novel portraying New York City as both setting and protagonist.
Through a mosaic of intersecting lives-clerks, immigrants, journalists, dreamers, financiers-Dos Passos constructs a fragmented yet cohesive portrait of early twentieth-century Manhattan. The novel abandons conventional linear narrative in favour of shifting perspectives, compressed scenes, and rhythmic montage, capturing the velocity and impersonality of urban existence. Individual ambition collides with economic reality, while personal identity dissolves within the machinery of modern life.
A precursor to Dos Passos’s later U.S.A. trilogy, Manhattan Transfer stands as one of the defining American novels of the 1920s. Its experimental structure and documentary realism reflect the influence of journalism, cinema, and modernist technique, offering a vivid chronicle of a city in transition.
Genre: Fiction > General Fiction/Classics
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