Ameerika kirjandus alates I maailmasõjast kuni tänapäevani.
Anderson, who comes back from war as an aviation ace. Very good pilot, has killed many
enemies. He starts aviation company and suddenly becomes rich but doesn't know what to do
with his money. Popular idea that money doesn't make happiness is showed here. Marries a
girl, gambles on a stock market, finally is driven out of his house, family, business and loses
everything. Finally commits suicide in car crash. The last novel is all about greed, the
governing emotion.
Dos Passos beocme less radical in the end of his life. Became almost a right wing activist. He
is remembered for his USA trilogy and the way he shows human disintregation.
The Body of American. Richard Roe and John Doe-if the identity is unknown. Polysyndeton,
direct speech, lack of punctuation, contrast of styles, fragmentation.
Steinberg.
06.03.13
1930's. Time of unemployment and crisis and so on.
John Steinberg. Like Dos Passos he was critical of american social order but his philosophy
was different