Can this be meme lit pls?

>>8602693
I've heard dos passos mentioned a few times but never cared enough to check him out. What's his writing style like? Which current meme would you compare him to?

>>8602817
In USA at least, there are chapter openings of spliced headlines and popular songs and things (it sort of invented the "press montage" thing that movies do all the time), there are occasional short vignettes which I think are what he's best at, and then the main meat of the novel are large chunks of plain and standard American prose which follow a bunch of characters in mosaic form, which intersect and separate. And overall it follows the progression of the general social and political mood of America. The characters are cartoony caricatures or plain realist portrayals, there's not a lot of middleground. General atmosphere is folksy-quaint and folksy-cynical.

>>8602817
>I've heard dos passos mentioned a few times but never cared enough to check him out. What's his writing style like? Which current meme would you compare him to?

Manhattan Transfer is very much the American equivalent to Alexander Döblin's Berlin Alexanderplatz. Never seen it mentioned here, which is a shame

>>8603066
Fassbinder adapted it, too. Highly recommended as well

>>8602693
seems like proto-pynchon

i'm pretty sure Against the Day is in part homage to USA trilogy