Años inolvidables

by John Dos Passos

En 1966, cercano ya a la muerte, el viejo Dos Passos conservaba muy pocas cosas de su juventud. Una de ellas era este puñado de recuerdos; la otra, su antigua e indudable habilidad para fascinar al lector. Prueba de ello es esta evocación de un pasado luminoso, jovial y aventurero, unas memorias que, a su vez, también contiene el relato de la amistad entre Dos Passos y Hemingway, y en él se rememoran el primer encuentro de ambos en la Italia de 1918, el fortalecimiento de su relación en el París de los años 20, sus andanzas por distintos lugares de Europa, las temporadas de retiro en Key West, el accidente automovilístico que provocó el internamiento de Hemingway en un hospital…

Años inolvidables es el relato del entusiasmo de Dos Passos por España y lo español, y el de su irreprimible vocación de trotamundos, y el de los episodios que jalonaron su formación política (…) si por un lado es un regreso a esa época mejor de su vida, previa a la Guerra Civil, por otro es también un regreso a los libros que entonces escribió. Quizás por eso la lectura de estas memorias, memorias de un hombre feliz que dejó de serlo, transmite en todo momento una sensación de exquisita honestidad. Pero la honestidad sería insuficiente si no estuviera acompañada por muchas otras virtudes, que hacen de Años inolvidables un libro apasionante...

Genres: Memoir, Biography, Literature, American, History, Biography Memoir, Nonfiction

344 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1966

About the author

John Dos Passos was a prominent American novelist, artist, and political thinker best known for his U.S.A. trilogy—The 42nd Parallel, 1919, and The Big Money—a groundbreaking work of modernist fiction that employed experimental narrative techniques to depict the complexities of early 20th-century American life. Born in Chicago in 1896, he was educated at Harvard and served as an ambulance driver during World War I, experiences that deeply influenced his early literary themes. His first novel, One Man’s Initiation: 1917, and the antiwar Three Soldiers drew on his wartime observations and marked him as a major voice among the Lost Generation.
Dos Passos’s 1925 novel Manhattan Transfer brought him widespread recognition and introduced stylistic innovations that would define his later work. His U.S.A. trilogy fused fiction, biography, newsreel-style reportage, and autobiographical “Camera Eye” sections to explore the impact of capitalism, war, and political disillusionment on the American psyche. Once aligned with leftist politics, Dos Passos grew increasingly disillusioned with Communism, especially after the murder of his friend José Robles during the Spanish Civil War—a turning point that led to a break with Ernest Hemingway and a sharp turn toward conservatism.
Throughout his career, Dos Passos remained politically engaged, writing essays, journalism, and historical studies while also campaigning for right-leaning figures like Barry Goldwater and Richard Nixon in the 1960s. He contributed to publications such as American Heritage, National Review, and The Freeman, and published over forty books including biographies and historical reflections. Despite political shifts, his commitment to liberty and skepticism of authoritarianism remained central themes.
Also a visual artist, Dos Passos created cover art and illustrations for many of his own books, exhibiting a style influenced by modernist European art. Though less acclaimed for his painting, he remained artistically active throughout his life. His multidisciplinary approach and innovations in narrative structure influenced numerous writers and filmmakers, from Jean-Paul Sartre to Norman Mailer and Adam Curtis.
Later recognized with the Antonio Feltrinelli Prize for literature in 1967, Dos Passos’s legacy endures through his literary innovations and sharp commentary on American identity. He died in 1970, leaving behind a vast and diverse body of work that continues to shape the landscape of American fiction.

Reviews

[Kim · Rating 4 out of 5]

John Dos Passos had an interesting life. Son of a successful lawyer, educated at Harvard University, architecture student in Spain, ambulance driver in France and Italy during WWI, intrepid traveller, writer, political activist, friend of Ernest Hemingway and F Scott Fitzgerald, Dos Passos had plenty of interesting things to write about in this memoir which deals with his life until shortly before the Spanish Civil War. Conversational in tone, it's written in clear, crisp prose and is a mixture of family and personal history, travelogue and anecdotes about Dos Passos' friends - particularly Hemingway (with whom Dos Passos eventually fell out during the Spanish Civil War) and Fitzgerald. This will particularly interest those readers already familiar with Dos Passos' life and work and those - like me - who have a thing for the Lost Generation.

[Rodney · Rating 5 out of 5]

Flat, perfunctory, and fast, Dos Passos's neglected memoir of his fantastical youth is an effective pen portrait of the greatest literary generation in U.S. history. By the mid-Sixties, when Dos Passos sat down with his notebooks and letters to write this, the tentative Modernism of the USA Trilogy had annealed into a style hardbitten and journalistic, with just a few pet contractions ("avantgarde," "welltodo") connecting it with the experiment of the interwar years. His unsentimental approach to the era has the advantage of stripping away some of its gold, as he takes you to drinks with the Fitzgeralds, Hemingways, and Cummingses with the hangovers (and boorish behavior) left in. A touching portrait of his father, the expansive lawyer John R. Dos Passos, and his 4-week caravan from Baghdad to Damascus in 1922, were two of the pleasantest surprises. Worth a read if you can find it.

[Tom Stamper · Rating 4 out of 5]

It helps to know John Dos Passos a little before tacking the book. Each chapter is a moment in his life, a story about how he came to be the man he was. He doesn't talk about his writing technique or the significance of his books. You have to know that going in. His reflections here on experiencing radical politics in and out of the Soviet Union are likely formed by his later anti-communism, but he doesn't hammer you with ideology. He all but admits to not having the answers even after a long life of experience. The chapter on his friendship with Hemingway and their times in Key West is probably the most accessible to the casual reader. Their falling out is shown as foreshadowing more than event. But even if you don't know his significance in American letters he writes an interesting memoir here that's full of the kind of wisdom gained in older age.

[Deni · Rating 5 out of 5]

me dije que iba a leer menos y mejor. vengo cumpliendo. librazo. Dos Passos no es solo un apellido formidable. una vez estaba triste y aburrido en el laburo y no podìa leer esto porque me hacìa sentir peor: la cantidad de vivencias que tiene este libro es tremebunda.

[Peter Bradley · Rating 5 out of 5]

The Best Time by John Dos Passos

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This is a delightful and captivating worm's eye view of American literary life in the early 20th Century. Dos Passos ("Dos") was exactly the right age and in the right place to be part of the wave that transformed American literature. As a young man in his early twenties, he was friends with Hemingway, E.E. Cummings, F. Scott Fitzgerald, and other literary luminaries. As a teenager, he volunteered to serve in the ambulance corps on the German front. He was transferred to Italy, where his radicalism resulted in him being invited to leave. Cummings had his own run-in with the French, which resulted in his imprisonment and the writing of "The Big Room." He met Hemingway during the war and bummed around with Hemingway in Paris and Key West. Dos was an adventurous traveler. One chapter describes his journey through the Caucuses into Iran and back up through Iraq across the desert to Syria facing off brigands and robbers.

This is a sweet book because, I assume, Dos was a sweet man. This book really is his best memories. He has no knives to bury or grudges to share. For example, although the book was written in 1966 - five years after the death of Hemingway - the stories he shares about Hemingway are flattering to Hemingway. There is a brief note of melancholy when he reflects on how age can drive people apart, but there is nothing here about Hemingway's shameful treatment of his friend during the Spanish Civil War as "Hem" came under the influence of the Communists.

The first chapter may be the sweetest chapter as Dos reflects on his father. Dos was born in irregular circumstances and was not regularized until after his father's first wife died. Nonetheless, Dos shows a great deal of affection for his father, and the affection was shared. I ended that chapter with a tear in my eye.

Many writers, playwrights, and authors make cameos in his memoir from a period when they were just starting to become well-known. Some never made it or died in the war. We get to see unguarded moments when these icons were in their twenties and interacted with each other as young men. We see speak-easies and the casual avoidance of Prohibition. This is a living history or history as it was lived.

And, if you are older, you come to realize that the Best Times really were when you were in your twenties and everything was so serious but you really were existentially free to do whatever you wanted.

[Zardoz · Rating 3 out of 5]

A decent audio biography though a bit of a slog in the beginning. John Dos Passos did live an interesting life. He traveled a lot and provided very vivid descriptions of the people and places he visited.
There is off course stories of his interaction with Hemingway, The Fitzgerald’s and the Murphy's. Which to be honest is why I wanted to read his memoir.
I was disappointed about the narrative ending in Spain before the Civil War there. That was an very important period of time and I had hoped it would be included.

[Jeaninne Escallier · Rating 4 out of 5]

This is one of those rare finds not usually on any popular book site. I happened upon it because I am obsessed with the artists and writers from the turn of the 20th century. I knew that John Dos Passos, a Portuguese American, was a close friend and confidante of Ernest Hemingway and E.E. Cummings. They followed the same worldly paths in the same literary circles. What really drew me to this book was the era in which Dos Passos lived, approximately 100 years ago; and, not so much that he hobnobbed with Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald and Hem, as he called Hemingway. They were never my favorite writers, but their stories mark the era in living color. (A drunken lifestyle of hunting wild animals and living off of others' hospitalities is not my jam.)

He wrote this memoir near the end of his life in the mid-sixties. It tends to jump from one memory to another from his time at Harvard, World War I, travels through France, the Middle East, Spain, New York, the Florida Keys and Cuba. John lived an unabashed life of daring adventure. The reader will certainly get a bird's eye view of the political geography of the world at that time, as well as how much cultural traditions have changed in 100 years. I was pleasantly surprised that politics in America haven't changed all that drastically. Passos even alludes to the derogatory term "liberal" given by conservatives in the 1920's to mean a communist. Sound familiar?

One cannot refute Dos Passos' talent as a writer (who was also an accomplished painter, playwright, and essayist). I am compelled to quote a few of my favorite passages to give you a taste of his style. This passage gives an idea of his word play: "Such a set of walleyed crooknosed squinting scarfaced slit-purses I never saw." This passage encapsulates how Dos Passos played with emotion: "In the moonlight the great cattle hanging helplessly by their horns as they swung aboard looked like beasts of the apocalypse."

This is not a read for the speed reader because one needs to savor the words; and, at times, it dragged a bit (due to out of style jargon). However, as a fan of history, I appreciated the moments captured under glass like a glorious butterfly pinned to velvet. As a writer myself, I learned that words remain as catalysts for hundreds and thousands of years. Education is power.

[Wendy · Rating 4 out of 5]

I enjoyed this book very much, although I do agree with others who said it’s not for everyone, but then, what is?

My attraction to Dos Passos was via his being a part of the ‘20s Paris expat “Lost Generation”.
This being memoirs of his younger years, it seemed a good introduction to his work.

I found his father to be a very interesting character, as well. He was a self educated man who became a very successful attorney. Like his son, he seemed to know everybody who was anybody of his own time.

“By the time I came along, the men he’d known, like his friend McFadden, whom he considered really first rate, were most of them dead. He did introduce me to Mark Twain as we were walking down Fifth Avenue one blustery morning, but all I remember was his flowing hair and white suit, which seemed incongruous on such a cold day, and the fact that his name wasn’t really Mark Twain at all.”

“Among his letters to me while I was in boarding school was one about Thomas Edison:

I had a very interesting episode today. I went out to see the great electrician Edison at his laboratory at Orange. I know him very well, and he is both a good friend and an interesting man……”

He was particularly fond of crows. He said their caw-caw was really ha-ha. They were laughing at us. He would dance his little dance and pace the deck of the Gaivota with his bantam swagger and laugh back at the laughing crows: “Ha haha.”

After graduating from Harvard, Dos Passos volunteered for the Red Cross ambulance corps in WWI serving in France then Italy.

After the war he went back to Paris where he met and became part of that ever growing group of writers and artists.

I love the stories he tells of the people, places and adventures. Such an amazing time.

[John · Rating 3 out of 5]

I loved Dos Passos’s USA trilogy. It was smart and emotional and intimate. This memoir was like that sometimes but mostly it was just him scribbling about stuff in a way that didn’t connect with me. It reminded me of his Orient Express memoir where he focused on the scenery and not what he felt or thought about it.

[Diego Choussy · Rating 4 out of 5]

Sobre Hem: "A une époque où les slogans politiques changent radicalement de sens en quelques années, quiconque entend se poser encore des questions, mettre les slogans à l’épreuve de la réalité quotidienne et placer fes étiquettes sur les choses, doit accepter que de vieux amis deviennent un jour de non-amis et même des ennemis”

20s: "On s’amusait bien, on mangeait bien, on buvait bien, mais il y avait à mon goût un peu trop d’exhibitionnistes dans le groupe"

[Rick · Rating 3 out of 5]

Published four years before his death, The Best Times is more reliable but less interesting than the memoir of Dos Passos’s frenemy Ernest Hemingway. A Moveable Feast was a work of art, spiced with some petty revenge (for example, referring to Dos Passos as the pilot fish who brought in the rich who corrupted Papa and cost him his first marriage and the indignity of reading for his supper). Dos Passos is more straightforward and prosaic and as a result The Best Times is useful but uncompelling reading.

It recounts an interesting life, one consistent in principle, though Dos Passos swung famously from way left of center to way right of center politically in his lifetime. He never regretted his work for Sacco and Vanzetti or his involvement in and withdrawal from the Spanish Civil War. He never liked bullies and the Communists were major league bullies. The Soviets fought two wars when they became involved in the Spanish Civil War, one against the fascists and one against the liberals, socialists, and anarchists who fought the fascists. A dear friend was murdered by the Communists in Spain and Dos Passos tried valiantly to find out what happened when his friend disappeared. He was appalled at the lack of interest among his American colleagues in Spain. For Dos Passos, Communism became the cure worse than the disease.

His wasn’t the clichéd switch from rebel to reactionary, liberal to conservative, radical to conformist. At his most radical he was uncomfortable with dogmatism on the left, feeling more at home with anarchists and the sloppy shades of socialism than with the absolutists of Leninists, Stalinists and other various strains of intolerant orthodoxies. He was a loner, someone who traveled to places and along pathways others flew over or sailed around. He was loyal to friends and principles, not to movements or institutions. For one he never quite fit in, as bastards tend not to. Their belonging is always questioned. Dos Passos was a gentleman born out of wedlock, a man of some privilege who identified with those not privileged, a romantic, a sponge for culture, art, history and politics. He was a good man and a good writer but not given to the limelight or to boasting.

The prose, never as good as his friends Fitzgerald and Hemingway, here is not his best, as if he was afraid to dress it up or to weight it. It is direct and matter of fact, modest and seemly when a little unseemliness might have done the book and the record good. It could have benefitted from more self-reflection, more consideration of his evolving beliefs and altered friendships. Instead it’s a sketch, not a self-portrait. Read it if a fan of Dos Passos or the period.

[David Allen Hines · Rating 5 out of 5]

Dos Passos' Three Soldiers has long been one of my favorite novels and I have read several of his other works, but I didn't know he had penned a memoir until I found a battered old paperback copy of The Best Times at a used book sale. It turned out The Best Times was one of the best books I have read for a long time, and I wonder why it isn't better know and still in print.

Dos Passos starts out with a charming chapter on his father, The Commodore, that gives a sense of who his father was, Dos Passos' relationship with him and how that relationship led to who Dos Passos was. This is followed by Dos Passos telling of his time as a pacifist who served as an ambulance driver in World War I. With the centennial of the first World War now passing, his stories of his service in World War I are poignant and authentic. The next chapter is also valuable for today because Dos Passos spent time after WWI traveling in Africa and the Middle East and his experience in light what we now know as the Middle East is insightful.

I did not realize Dos Passos knew and was friends with many of the famous writers of the 1920s and he tells of his experiences with F. Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald; Ernest Hemmigway; E. E. Cummings and others in an intimate way no biographer ever could.

He talks about his pacificism and Communism in ways that might trouble the modern American reader, but in a way we can appreciate his point of view. In addition to his many other adventures, he even ends the book in Spain during the Spanish Revolution. The only part of the book I did not like was the abrubt ending; the book just ends without any summation or parting words or anything and is needlessly jarring.


This book reads as the memoirs of an older accomplished man who doesn't have a care in the world and is just telling his life as it was. Anyone who wants further insight into Dos Passos, or wants to learn about real life in World War I, or who wants insight into the private lives of famous writers of the 1920s will very much enjoy this book. I just wish it was better known and more widely available today!

[Caroline Barron · Rating 3 out of 5]

Finally - after reading books about and by just about everyone he socialised with - I got around to reading something by Dos Passos. He was portrayed as somewhat of a coward in the film Hemingway & Gellhorn, so I was interested to see if there was truth in this, and what sort of man he was, through his own voice. Although he socialised in the same scene as the Murphy's, Hemingway and the Fitzgeralds, his 'Informal Memoir' shows him as quite different to his compatriots - more of a loner than Hemingway, and fervently opposed to celebrity unlike Fitzgerald. It was fascinating to see him writing with such subtlety about breakdowns in these relationships (except for the Murphy's who he always adored) and what being a writer meant for him. For most of his life he tried to avoid the label 'writer' and was just as likely to become an artist or an architect. He wrote:"A writer who took his trade seriously would be sure to get more kicks than ha'pence. He would be lucky if he stayed out of jail." And then went off to LA to try his luck.

Did I like the man? Not sure. Was he a coward? Well he wasn't Hemingway. Did he live an interesting life in interesting times? Hell yes, a great life in The Best Times.

To add to list: The Enormous Room E.E. Cummings and something else by Dos Passos, perhaps Three Soldiers or Manhatten Transfer.

[Ned Conway · Rating 3 out of 5]

Currently re-reading this...read it back in 2006 and found it to be another memoir to only further confirm my unhealthy obsession with the Lost Generation. Re-reading it now out of interest with his journey from Tehran into Saudi Arabia and then up to Syria, mostly by camel caravan (including a detour in Baghdad to say hello to Gertrude Bell). Also interested in his writing style, specifically how he avoids the trap of "reminiscing about his discoveries" and instead allows the reader to experience them.

Never read any of Dos' fiction. That is probably next on the list.

[David · Rating 3 out of 5]

Unamuno, Hemingway, Scott Fitzgerald, Ferdinand Léger, Picasso, Azaña. La bohèmia nord-americana travessava l’Atlàntic com qui va a la casa d’estiueig els caps de setmana. De Baltimore a París, Venècia, Lisboa o Madeira. De Washington a Antibes, a la Provença francesa. De Key West, Florida, a Madrid o Toledo. De Nova York a La Habana i de Los Angeles fins a Istabul, Damasc, Teheran, Sant Petersburg o Tblisi, Geòrgia. A tot arreu Dos Passos fa amistats, cafès, festes, tertúlies, assisteix a obres teatrals i pren banys de sol a bord d’un iot o a la platxa. També pren notes per a novel·les o reportatges.

Són els feliços anys vint, que han començat amb l’aprenent d’escriptor i autor de teatre, John Dos Passos, enrolant-se de voluntari pacifista a la Creu Roja durant la Primera guerra mundial i que l’acabarà convertint-se en escèptic partidari de la causa comunista. ‘Escriptors del món, uniu-vos! L’únic que perdreu és la vostra intel·ligència.

Aquestes són unes memòries sincopades on s’amunteguen personatges, viatges pel desert, converses amb rodamóns i còctels patrocinats per fills de milionaris nord-americans. Escrites en el capvespre de la seva vida, passada la seixantena Dos Passos recrea l’experiència europea entre el 1917 i el final de la República espanyola. Algun moment divertit, alguna curiositat per als amants de la literatura americana, però poca cosa més que un ‘he estat aquí, he fet això’. Més dietari que gran literatura. Pot agradar als amants del realisme social americà, del seu ecosistema profundament burgès o pels que vulguin endinsar-te en la URSS de les grans esperances prèvies a la persecució stalinista.

[Alberto Mejía · Rating 4 out of 5]

Una historia bien contada de una vida llena de interés. Viajero, aventurero, testigo como conductor de ambulancia de la Primera Guerra Mundial, parte de la Generación Pérdida, amante de la cultura española y un largo etc. Dos Passos presenció buena parte de la historia del siglo XX, nos legó su testimonio en estas memorias sinceras y desenfadadas, haciéndonos participes de una época de horror y temor, pero también pródiga en talento y ambición. Sus preocupaciones políticas así como sus amistades literarias atraviesan todo el libro. Su viaje hasta Irán resulta apasionante en su seguimiento, por no hablar de su retorno a través del desierto llegando hasta el actual Líbano (por entonces colonia francesa): una parábola de la vida, el buscar y perseguir, seguido del encuentro con los límites que, inevitablemente, llevan a un reconocimiento de las fronteras y un conocimiento personal de las limitaciones y, por último, un regreso cargado de aprendizaje y contemplación. La parábola se repite con los amigos, los colegas, la política y la misma historia narrada por el lente de Dos Passos. Habría que añadir una última concatenación, anexada en las memorias ante la víspera de la Guerra Civil Española: se retorna transformado por el viaje a un lugar ya conocido, pero, aunque en apariencia lo sea, los lugares también son arrastrados por el tiempo; y no se puede volver a ser el mismo en una época irremediablemente semejante.

[Javier Sastre · Rating 4 out of 5]

Entretenido libro acerca de los viajes, amistades y peripecias de un joven Dos Passos. Desde su paso por la Primera Guerra Mundial como miembro de un cuerpo voluntario de ambulancias hasta sus estancias en el mítico Paris de artistas de entreguerras (Picasso, Aragon y compañía), su visita a la recién estrenada y revolucionaria Unión Soviética (coquetea en esos momentos con el comunismo aunque luego quedaría desilusionado) o sus viajes junto a los beduinos por Siria y Líbano. Por supuesto también sus repetidas estancias en España con personajes como Unamuno o Juan Ramón Jimenez y en otras ocasiones con Hemingway, con quien desarrolla una intensa amistad que le lleva a visitarle en los cayos de Florida innumerables veces. También mantiene una estrecha amistad con Scott y Zelda Fitzgerald con quienes descubre para los americanos más pudientes el encanto de la Riviera francesa.
En definitiva un libro que se lee solo, sin esfuerzo, que tiene bastante interés por la cantidad de personajes conocidos que aparecen, la turbulenta e interesante época en la que se desarrolla y el indudable espíritu aventurero del autor.

[Erik Graff · Rating 3 out of 5]

Dos Passos' USA Trilogy is my favorite American novel. Beyond that, I read his early Three Soldiers and maybe two of his history books. Thus this memoir was of interest.

It begins with a chapter about his father, ending just before the beginning of the Spanish civil war. Written in the sixties, by which time Dos Passos had become successful and well off, one can see him attempting to explain and minimize his leftist past. Most of the text, however, is an account of his travels in Europe, the Americas, Russia and the Middle East, punctuated by characterizations of and stories about such famous friends as Ernest Hemingway, E.E. Cummings, Archibald McLeish, the Fitzgeralds, etc.

[Virginia Hume · Rating 4 out of 5]

John Dos Passos wrote this memoir of his childhood, college days, and twenties, just a few years before his death in 1970. He writes charmingly about his travels (which were extensive - he was quite a wanderer), and in true “show not tell” style, gives us glimpses of the many luminaries whom he counted as friends. Eg, Cummings, Hemingway, Fitzgerald, Horsley Gantt.

I suspect his political evolution is responsible for his no longer being mentioned in the same breath as Hemingway and Faulkner as one of America’s most important novelists. It’s a shame. This book conveys a sense of a gentle, non-dogmatic soul, who lived a fascinating life, and who came by his views honestly.

[Shona · Rating 5 out of 5]

Totally Engrossing

What a wonderful memoir! How he writes about people, places and events is totally engrossing. An enviable peripatetic existence with chapters covering Key West, Spain, travels through Russia, WWI, and his father, "The Commodore." Also his reflections on Gerald and Sara Murphy, Hemingway, F Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald, Sherwood Anderson, especially e e cummings, and many others are rich in detail, no small feat considering written 40 years after the fact. Wish there had been more...

[Phil Buckley · Rating 4 out of 5]

In The Best of Times: An Informal Memoir, John Dos Passos shares thoughts and reflections from formative periods in his life. His best recollections are of his friends, including E.E. Cummings, Ernest Hemingway and Don Ogden Stewart. He shares his memories like someone telling a friend about the places he has visited and hijinx he survived. His observations and insights withstand the test of time.
The Best of Times is a warm and engaging read about times gone that should not be forgotten.

[Tancredi PRZ · Rating 1 out of 5]

Il racconto del Commodoro mi è sembrato il più coinvolgente, fino alla prevedibile e triste morte del padre di JDP, solitaria ma serena. Tuttavia, racconto dopo racconto, ho trovato estenuanti le continue citazioni dotte, descrizioni dei luoghi ed opinioni sulle innumerevoli persone che JDP ha incontrato sul suo sentiero. Tanto innumerevoli quanto ridondanti. Proverò a leggere i suoi più famosi racconti, un giorno.

[Guillermo Remón · Rating 5 out of 5]

Tiene algunos de los párrafos más hermosos que he leído. Una manera de ver la vida directa, con su ironía entrañable y una capacidad original de descripción de personajes en dos palabras. Ha pasado a ser uno de mis libros favoritos.

[Andrew · Rating 5 out of 5]

John Dos Passos had serious wanderlust, and he hung out with Hemingway, but was a different character- more reserved and more of a regular guy. For me this hit the spot.

[Pablo · Rating 5 out of 5]

No me gustan las biografías, pero esta cuenta cosas muy interesantes de una forma muy honesta. Vale la pena aunque sólo sea por los personajes que aparecen y el lado humano que muestran.

[Arrate Mancisidor · Rating 5 out of 5]

Las vivencias de un autor y su punto de vista siempre son interesantes.

[Beatriz · Rating 4 out of 5]

Tengo ideas contrapuestas con este libro. Por un lado, me parece un período super interesante, pero por el otro, hay ciertas cositas que no me acaban. Aun así he disfrutado bastante.

[Mélody · Rating 5 out of 5]

It's the first book of Dos Passos that I read and not the least. For the first time, a writer tell us about his life and show us what is really an author, his life, his trips. Anyway, it's a book to read when you're young because when you close the book, you just want to live La Belle Vie.

[Colleen]

Good history. The section on his father was hard for me to get into. The rest was interesting.