Ameerika kirjandus alates I maailmasõjast kuni tänapäevani.
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destructive of his art. This novel is written in more or less anti war. ,,Manhattan transfer"-
truly modernist novel. Ruinous effect of capitalism on human lives. The scene of action is
New York. The city itself becomes the central character, the whole novel is an attempt to
show the complex nature of the novel metropolis-huge city. It is a truly modernist level in any
sense, tries to imitate devices used by cinema. Late 1920's the cinema was already very
popular and two great directiors-Griffith and Eisenstein. The greatest innovators of the cinema
and they used the devices of montage and collage. He also uses a lot of fragmentation and
rapid cutting. The novel is dominated by the high rise city, by the crowds, by the masses of
people, passing by the skyscrapers, mechanisation and destructiveness. There is a multitude of
characters. Two characters, ellen Thatcher-beatiful and talented Broadway actress and Jimmy
Horf-newspaper reporter with and ambition to become a writer
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