Eastern Express

Orient Express is an enjoyable travelogue in which John Dos Passos, one of the important writers of 20th century American literature, conveys his impressions of the East. In the Orient Express, John Dos Passos describes with the meticulous attention of a literary figure the sights, sounds and smells he encountered during his travels to Anatolia, Eastern Europe, the Near East and the Middle East in the early 1920s. On his journey from Tbilisi to Yerevan, from Qazvin to Sam, he adds color and meaning to the most ordinary landscapes like a master painter. Crossing the Syrian Desert, climbing the Caucasus, witnessing the establishment of a new Iraq under British control, Dos Passos pays attention to the troubles and beauties of the East at the same time, while Eastern Express turns into an enjoyable travel narrative. An Eastern travelogue, the like of which is rarely seen in the West at the beginning of the 20th century. "Dos Passos's world is an impossible world, just like Kafka's, Faulkner's and Stendhal's: full of contradictions. But beauty is hidden in contradiction, an implicit contradiction. I think Dos Passos is one of the greatest writers of our time. "
-Jean Paul Sartre-
(From the Promotional Bulletin)



Number of Pages: 192

Year of Printing: 2016


Language: Turkish
Publisher: Iletisim Publishing

Number of Pages: 192

First Print Year: 2016

Language Turkish