Publisher's Synopsis
This study focuses on the autobiographical dimension of John Dos Passos's writings. It argues that his work as a whole - his novels as well as his essays and travel narratives - function as an "autobiographical space" that generates meaning, both at an individual and a collective level.;Like Walt Whitman before him, Dos Passos wanted to write the collective autobiography of the United States by placing himself at the centre of his work. It is these complementary explorations of the self and the world in constant mutation that make his trilogy, "USA", a unique achievement.
