“The only excuse for a novelist, aside from the entertainment and vicarious living his books give the people who read them, is as a sort of second-class historian of the age he lives in. The "reality" he missed by writing about imaginary people, he gains by being able to build a reality more nearly out of his own factual experience than a plain historian or biographer can.”
Quote by John Dos Passos
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John Dos Passos: the major nonfictional prose
This volume brings together a selection of John Dos Passos's significant nonfictional writings, offering readers insight into his thought and his exploration of various subjects across different periods of his career. more
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John Dos Passos
John Dos Passos was an American novelist born on January 14, 1896, and died on September 28, 1970. His works are known for their unique narrative style and profound insights into the realities of American society. more
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