John Dos Passos

Streets Of Night (eBook, ePUB)

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Produktbeschreibung

Streets of Night is a novel by John Dos Passos, set in the early 1900s in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and focuses on the lives of two college students, Fanshaw and Cham. The story revolves around their experiences with women, particularly with Phoebe Sweeting and her friend, both of whom are chorus girls. Cham convinces Fanshaw to accompany him on a double date with Phoebe and her friend, despite Fanshaw's reluctance. They spend the day together, canoeing, picnicking, and visiting a hotel. Fanshaw is uncomfortable with the situation, but Cham insists that everything is innocent and that the girls are respectable. As the day progresses, Fanshaw becomes more and more disillusioned with the world around him, feeling trapped by the expectations of his social class and the narrow-mindedness of his peers. He struggles to reconcile his own desires and values with the society in which he lives. The novel explores themes of class, gender, and sexuality, as well as the tension between tradition and modernity. It is a portrait of a particular time and place but also speaks to universal human experiences of love, loss, and disillusionment.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Double 9 Books
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. Januar 2023
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9789357486187
• Artikelnr.: 68483469

Autorenporträt

John Roderigo Dos Passos (1896 - 1970) was an American novelist and artist active in the first half of the twentieth century. Born in Chicago, Illinois, he graduated from Harvard College in 1916. He was well-traveled, visiting Europe and the Middle East, where he learned about literature, art and architecture. During World War I, he was a member of the American Volunteer Motor Ambulance Corps in Paris and in Italy, later joining the U.S. Army Medical Corps. In 1920 Dos Passos' first novel, One Man's Initiation: 1917 was published and in 1925 his novel, Manhattan Transfer, became a commercial success. In 1928, he went to the Soviet Union to study socialism and later became a leading participant in the 1935 First American Writers Congress sponsored by the communist-leaning League of American Writers. He was in Spain in 1937 during the Spanish Civil War, when the murder of his friend José Robles soured his attitude toward communism and led to severing his relationship with fellow writer Ernest Hemingway.