One Mans Initiation

As the Great War inspired much great poetry, including that of Siegfried Sassoon and Robert Graves, so did it inspire compelling prose John Dos Passos volunteered to drive an ambulance in France during the First World War The brutality of his experiences turned him against not only war, but capitalism and inspired him to write One Man s Initiation 1917. Best Download One Mans Initiation By John Dos Passos For Kindle ePUB or eBook – kino-fada.fr I hadn t heard of John Dos Passos until I started reading about expatriate writers in 1920s Paris Like Ernest Hemingway, Dos Passos served as a volunteer ambulance driver in World War I Whereas Hemingway s experiences during the war helped develop his macho persona, Dos Passos exposure to the brutality of war politicised him In the late 1920s he went to Russia to study socialism and in 1935 was involved with the US Communist Party sponsored First Americans Writers Congress However, Dos Pass I hadn t heard of John Dos Passos until I started reading about expatriat...This is a semi autobiographical novella The American author is writing of his own experiences as a volunteer ambulance driver in France during the First World War in 1917 The writing is disjointed, a scathing commentary of war It covers disparate events there is little continuity to the story Each short chapter depicts different scenes of war, the trip over the Atlantic, days in Paris and the French girls , a didactic discussion one night among Frenchmen and Americans an anarchist, a tal This is a semi autobiographical novella The American author is writing of his own experiences as a volunteer ambulance driver in France during the First World War in 1917 The writing is disjointed, a scathing commentary of war It covers disparate events there is little continuity to the story Each short chapter depicts different scenes of war, the trip over the Atlantic, days in Paris and the French girls , a didactic discussion one night among Frenchmen and Americans an anarchist, a talkative socialist, another with deep religious conviction There are numerous scenes of the French land and towns, somewhat colorfully depicted, with French slate tiles, mansard roofs, abbeys and colorful foulards Clearly the author wanted to demonstrate a thorough knowledge with a palette of numerous pigments, the gas and mud eerily painted in pigments of green, gray and mustard.I preferred The Backwash Of War by Ellen Newbold La Motte.The audiobook s narration narrati...This is one of those anti war classics that emerged from the Great War, with boys marching off singing patriotic songs about whipping the Huns, and discovering war as it was to be fought in the 20th century trenches, machine guns, grenades, endless shelling, poison gas.It was probably very powerful in its day It still is a powerful and harr...One thing I noticed while reading John Dos Passos s One Man s Initiation 1917 is how much I know about World War 2 And how much I know about Vietnam Even about the Korean War.All I know about World War I has come from fiction wherein it s treated like a character, like a woman who is to be pursued, or from whose cruel rejection you must recover In The Beautiful and The Damned, F Scott Fitzgerald s doppelganger, Anthony Patch, is disappointed when he misses out on going to the front to s One thing I noticed while reading John Dos Passos s One Man s Initiation 1917 is how much I know about World War 2 And how much I know about Vietnam Even about the Korean War.All I know about World War I has come from fiction wherein it s treated like a character, like a woman who is to be pursued, or from whose cruel rejection you must recover In The Beautiful and The Damned, F Scott Fitzgerald s doppelganger, Anthony Patch, is disappointed when he misses out on going to the front to see action In Hemingway s The Sun...When meandering through this novella, I found myself wondering if it was worth reading And meandering is likely the best word to be using since the novella is broken down into smaller segments scenes The first half was slow and kind of dull, but well written to the extent that small contained scenes can be By the halfway point, and slightly beyond, I found myself still questioning the merit of the novel Then boom the philosophical discussion on war or rather anti war hits And it s bot When meandering through this novella, I found myself wondering if it was worth reading And meandering is likely the best word to be using since the novella is broken down into smaller segments scenes The first half was slow and kind of dull, but well written to the extent that small contained scenes can be By the halfway po...This novella about an American ambulance driver in World War I was a good remembrance for Veterans Day although I didn t get to it until later As with most WWI stories, it is gritty and heartwrenching I find that is evenaffecting in audiobook form than in the written word, so it took me a while to make it through this despite its short length.As for the narration, it was neither great nor terrible A tad on the slow side but not so much as to make me use the 1.5x settingAugust 2017 This novella about an American ambulance driver in ...This review has been hidden because it contains spoilers To view it, click here I was planning on beginning my reading for War Through the Generation s WWI reading challenge with Three Soldiers by John Dos Passos, but then came across his novel One Man s Initiation 1917 on Project Gutenberg I started reading it and couldn t stop As a rule, I m not into slamming one writer or genre for the sake of another, but One Man s Initiation 1917 makes Hemingway s A Farewell to Arms look like chick lit I like Hemingway but he was snarky about Willa Cather s Pulitzer winning WWI n I was planning on beginning my reading for War Through the Generation s WWI reading challenge with Three Soldiers by John Dos Passos, but then came across his novel One Man s Initiation 1917 on Project Gutenberg I started reading it and couldn...This is a four star book marred by a two star ending A series of jagged, abrupt vignettes with great imagery evokes the experiences of an American ambulance driver in the Great War, but it s rather spoiled by a heavy handed discussion of a new w...Mi primer Dos Pasos me sac l grimas y creo que eso ya es suficiente No soy buena para las rese as, no les dedico el tiempo que deber a, pero creo que este libro todos deber an leerlo.My first, uh, initiation to Dos Passos is this 1920 novella, his first book concerning a young American man s entr e into World War I Knowing that Dos Passos himself saw some action in The Great War, it stands to reason that much of this is drawn from the firsthand His title character is Martin Howe, a young man who leaves the USA on a steamer for France with other scared conscripts and aggro soldiers, full of wonder and chagrin about what s he s about to experience Howe concludes his stay ov My first, uh, initiation to Dos Passos is this 1920 novella, his first book concerning a young American man s entr e into World War I Knowing that Dos Passos himself saw some action in The Great War, it stands to reason that much of this is drawn from the firsthand His title character is Martin Howe, a young man who leaves the USA on a steamer for France with other scared conscripts and aggro soldiers, full of wonder and chagrin about what s he s about to experience Howe concludes his stay overseas as a full stop socialist, bemused and upset by the lies and betrayals on all sides, and full of undying love for the quote unquote brotherhood of man It may be a little too of its time as a socialist siren call and as I understand it, even Dos Passos later worked tirelessly for Barry Goldwater and Richard Nixon before he shuffled off our mortal coil Utopian dreams have a way of dying rather hard, do...

• English
• 04 October 2017
John Dos Passos
• Paperback
• 128 pages
• 1603120068
• John Dos Passos
• One Mans Initiation