This year marks the 100th anniversary of the publication of
Three Soldiers, the first celebrated novel by the prolific American novelist John Dos Passos (1896-1970). The writer is probably best known for his epic
U.S.A., a trilogy of novels experimental in form and highly critical of American capitalism and culture.
Three Soldiers can be held up to
U.S.A. and seen as the work of a younger Dos Passos, one who is still finding his novelist’s voice, but the earlier novel is itself an accomplished work worthy of a reader’s attention in 2021.
John Dos Passos