- John DOS PASSOS is an American born in 1896 and died in 1970 (at 74 years old). He is a writer, novelist, playwright, poet, journalist, painter, translator and artist.It is part of the "Lost Generation" and also of the "Literary Movement" and "Modernism".When she was born, her family was well off. She offers him the best schools and preceptors.He has traveled extensively in Europe and the Middle East.IIn 1917, he volunteered as a paramedic and worked in Paris and Italy during the First World War (1914-18), before joining the medical corps of the US Army. During the armistice, he went to Paris and studied anthropology at the Sorbonne.

In 1928, he went to study the socialist system in the USSR, then returned to Spain where he met Hemingway during the civil war. Subsequently, his opinion on communism began to change. But above all, from the mid-1930s. His thinking began to move away from socialism and even developed some anti-communism.From 1942 to 1945, he covered the Second World War (1939 - 45) as a journalist.In 1947 he was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Letters.- THREE SOLDIERS is a novel by the American writer John DOS PASSOS. It was published in 1921.

It was the first major American work on the war in a disrespectful tone.It reflects in part the autobiography of the author, himself having served as a paramedic in Europe during the First World War (1914 - 18).This author has asserted himself as the most corrosive novelist that the United States has known. At a time when American intellectuals begin the process of a conflict in which more than 100,000 of their compatriots perished.The story concerns three young people from deep America.Chris Field is a young farmer from the Midwest. He was led to kill one of his superiors.Fuselli, of Italian origin, is a young motherless and ambitious orphan.

He wanted to become a corporal. He has been a shop assistant in San Francisco, and will end the war in a disciplinary battalion.John Andrews, a young New York composer.These three young men come from different social classes and have their own behaviors. They express themselves elegantly, gruffly or popularly.They are incorporated into the US Army to participate in the First World War in France to fight against the German enemy.It is a testimony to recount the unpromising odyssey of these young recruits crushed by the military machine.They engaged in the Great War and found themselves on the French front.

From very different backgrounds, they will be indifferently duped and caught by the military machine.This war is a bloody hell. They will rub shoulders with alcohol and women, enemies and corpses on a daily basis.