Gertrude Stein Newsreel Lxvid Analysis

"Picasso" by Gertrude Stein - "Newsreel LXVI" by John Dos Passos
The works of Gertrude Stein and John Dos Passos are representative of an alternative literature—known as anti-literature—that subverts the traditional literary rules.
Anti-literature, a term coined by the poet David Gascoyne, refers to works which deliberately avoid the conventional rules of literature by turning them upside down.
Picasso's Gertrude Stein portrait seems to transport the typical concepts of Cubism in a literary masterpiece of unsurpassed innovation and effectiveness. Line after line, repeating the same sentence, although with seemingly imperceptible additions but still essential, Stein appears to give life to a flow of words that with cadenced rhythm create in

But he went on and on as caught or rather possessed by something that was coming "out of him and this thing coming out of him always had a mining."
Stein's work has ignited my imagination and generated some sort of need to know more about her friendship with Picasso as well as to observe the Picasso's portrait of Gertrude.

Dos Passos's Newsreel LXVI is a picture in motion of the public condemnation of Sacchi and Vanzetti, awaiting their execution. The author offers a realistic portrait of the situation by using a collage of contemporary headlines popular songs of the day, and thus describing reality as it was sold for public consumption.
Dos Passos' The Big Money—to which Newsreel LXVI belong—the illusory nature of the American Dream, which aims to offers everyone equal opportunities, but in reality sentenced to death two anarchists immigrants on the basis of weak evidence despite international protests.
In this Dos Passo's work, one can observe how the subversion of the classical patterns of literature allows the reader to live as in person a sad page of democracy