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VIEWS AND REVIEWSBy HENRY MONTORStormy Lives (The 42nd Parallel, by John DoSPassos. Harper Bros.)John Dos Passos occupies a unique place in American literature. He is the only one of the American moderns who has been an exponent of social protest and done it in such a manner as to have compelled recognition for his work as art and not propaganda. There is between him and Upton Sinclair a world of difference. Dos Passos is content to record the scene and to leave it to his readers to draw conclusions.reel.” Consisting of a page or two between episodes, they serve to give the background of the events which take place. “The Camera Eye” might be called the third dimension of thought which illuminates the placidity and the drabness of these people’s existence.There is one large difficulty with this novel. The author has not sufficiently differentiated the characters. Their fates are too much the same; their routes too parallel. What Dos Passos no doubt intended was to emphasize the uniformity of middle-class and working-class life in America. The reader’s
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Chicago Sentinel
Chicago, Illinois, US
Fri, Mar 14, 1930
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