Chapter 29 "Big Money"

"Big Money" John Dos Passos is the only noteworthy of a novelist.The sales of his works may not match those of other popular writers in the United States; but in Abroad, he is an American writer with the most readers.For the publication of his new book, Xu Many people are unwilling to let go of an exciting opportunity easily. I am one of his readers, and I recently finished reading his new book "Big Money" with pleasure (The Big Money). Passos is not a new writer, having appeared in the literary world for nearly two decades, but in While many promising contemporary American writers stagnated or declined (most notably Heming

Wei, who in the past two years only knows fishing and hunting, and writes a little travel notes and newsletters), but he has always been silent Growing loudly, working hard for my literary and artistic life. "Big Money" is the continuation of "Forty-two Latitudes" and "1919". It is the end of this trilogy, but it may not be, because the characters that appear in these three novels successively Many of the characters are still active, and Passos may have kept them alive in the present history superior.His novels don't care about the end, just like history itself, it is always "beginning."

"Big Money" describes the prosperity of the United States after the war.The complexity of background and characters is when No modern American writer dared to make such an attempt, even more so than Passos's own past works. From New York to Hollywood to the mines of the Colorado River, congressmen, politicians, inventors, workers Engineers, even capitalists, brokers, street runners; rich girls, romantic widows, and even prostitutes, dancers women, film queens; socialists, labor leaders, and even communists, counter-revolutionaries; this All the characters appear in the book, and they all appear under the vivid description of Passos.this book

No concepts, no narratives, just fact after fact. There is no doubt that Passos was a man who read James Joyce, and tried to Writers trying new tricks.But he has a specialty, the use of his skills, not fooling Readers, showing off their cleverness, are trying to make his readers have a three-dimensional sense of his works. The "newsreel" and "open-end" he used in his two books "Forty-two Latitudes" and "1919" The method of "eye-catching" is still used in "Big Money", and it has a better effect. For the complex and tense modern life and social institutions, Passos's description method can be said to be very good.

A very appropriate kind, but it must have keen observation and clever tailoring, starting from a simple basic Start with the original study, otherwise it will inevitably become a "trash can" and "organ background"; even if it is complicated, Although novel, it is no longer art.