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This week Dos Passos published a book that bids fair to cook his goose for good, as far as the Communists are concerned. Adventures of a Young Man, first of an intended series of contemporary portraits, traces the evolution, in the '203 and '305, of a middle-class radical. Sandy-haired, grey-eyed, idealistic Glenn Spotswood was brought up to be a Christian Gentleman. But his father was liberal enough to get fired from Columbia University for opposing U. S. entry into the War. Other radicalizers in Glenn's young manhood were a good-humored rebel chum...
ADVENTURES OF A YOUNG MAN-John Dos Passos-Harcourf, Brace...
Critics generally have praised John Dos Passos' trilogy, 1919, The 42nd Parallel, The Big Money (now published in one volume as U. S. A.). Leftist critics have pointed to it with pride as a dramatization of Marxist theory. "It is Dos Passos," said Communist Critic Granville Hicks, "that has shown the [Marxist] way. . . . There is no apparent obstacle to his continued growth...
...years ago the American Writers' Congress overwhelmingly voted The Big Money best novel of the year. That was on June 6. Three weeks later, Dos Passos' name was mud with the Marxists. His heresy: an article called Farewell to Europe, damning "the intricate and bloody machinery of Kremlin policy" in Spain, thanking heaven that "the Atlantic is a good wide ocean...
...readers will deny that Dos Passos has dramatized his latest political views in a racy story, or that they are sincere. But his characters are onedimensional. In the career of a novelist, Adventures of a Young Man reads like a minor pamphlet...