John Dos Passos, Blaise Cendrars, and the "other" modernism.

From: Twentieth Century Literature | Date: September 22, 1996| Author: Dow, William | Copyright information

The influence of French author Blaise Cendrars on John Dos Passos' work 'Manhattan Transfer' has elicited very little critical interest. Most studies consider authors Joyce, Einstein, Eliot and Whitman as Dos Passos' main aesthetic influences. However, it is argued that Cendrars' early poetry from 1912-1926 as well as his avant-gardism strongly influenced Dos Passos' interwar fiction.

The interwar French avant-garde long considered John Dos Passos as an eminent literary figure. Dos P...

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