1919.: Translation by V. Stenich.
by Dos Passos, John
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- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- In good condition, worn to the dust jacket, tears to the dust jacket's spine and edges, small losses to the dust jacket's spine.
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About This Item
One of 10 200 copies printed.
First Russian edition of the novel. Banned book.
The second part of Dos Passos's major work the U.S.A. trilogy. Before this edition there were published only extracts in periodicals.Translation was prepared by a poet, the Russian Joyce's Ulysses translator Valentin Stenich (1897-1938). He was arrested in November 1937 and executed.All editions of Dos Passos's books were banned in Rusiia until 1958.
Libman, 2288.
OCLC locates four copies of this edition in the US: in the University of North Carolina Library, the University of Virginia Library, the Yale University Library and the Harvard Library.
Synopsis
With 1919, the second volume of his U.S.A. trilogy, John Dos Passos continues his "vigorous and sweeping panorama of twentieth-century America" (Forum). The characters in this book are living through America and the first World War. In this tale, we follow a ministers' daughter from Chicago, a naive Texas girl, a young poet, a radical Jew, and we get to see side stories of Woodrow Wilson, Theodore Roosevelt, and the Unknown Soldier. John Dos Passos uses different narrative techniques to evoke the emotions of the reader in this experimental series. The twelve characters in the trilogy are introduced via fictional narratives telling their life stories, newspaper clippings, song lyrics, short biographies of figures from the public eye, and the characters' own autobiographical stream of consciousness writing.
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- Bookseller
- Biblionne (RS)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 5830
- Title
- 1919.
- Author
- Dos Passos, John
- Illustrator
- Book design by A. Ushin.
- Format/Binding
- In original binding and illustrated original dust jacket.
- Book Condition
- Used - In good condition, worn to the dust jacket, tears to the dust jacket's spine and edges, small losses to the dust jacket's spine.
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Lengikhl
- Place of Publication
- [Leningrad]
- Date Published
- 1933
- Pages
- [4], 374, [2] pp.
- Size
- 8vo
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- American literature, Translation, Banned
- Bookseller catalogs
- Banned books; American literature; Translations;
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