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INTERVIEWER
One political question seems inescapable. In many of your books since the war, you write of the “abominable snowman” of international Communism, of having been among the first to see him, and having kept on seeing him through all of the crises, alliances, and thaws. Do you see him as clearly today?
DOS PASSOS
It’s very hard to tell. It’s almost impossible to have any view of present-day international politics without having a double standard of judgment. Our development and that of the Soviet Union have many things in common except that the Soviet Union is motivated by this tremendous desire for world conquest, more active sometimes and at other times less active. It may be that the people of Russia are not very much motivated by this passion for expansion any more. I’m not sure whether they ever were.
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| Authors Mentioned |
| Ernest Hemingway, Boris Pasternak, Gertrude Stein, Henri Barbusse, Hart Crane, Stephen Crane, E. E. Cummings, Henry Fielding, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Gustave Flaubert, Michael Gold, Robert Hillyer, Sinclair Lewis, George Moore, Pío Baroja y Nessi, John Reed, J. D. Salinger, Stendhal, Thucydides, Ivan Turgenev, Giuseppi Ungaretti |
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