James Jones


Jones, James

 

Born Nov. 6, 1921, in Robinson, 111. American writer. Served in the US Army in World War II.

Jones became famous for his antimilitaristic novel From Here to Eternity (1951; Russian translation, From Here and Into Eternity, 1969). Jones’ novel Some Came Running (1957) tells about front-line soldiers who return after the war alienated from their bourgeois surroundings. In Jones’ style, which was influenced by the prose of E. Hemingway and the soldier poetry of R. Kipling, the naturalistic element predominates.

WORKS

The Pistol. New York, 1959.
Go to the Widow-maker. New York, 1967.
The Ice-cream Headache and Other Stories. New York, 1968.

REFERENCE

Orlova, R. “Malen’kie liudi na bol’shoi voine.” Voprosy literatury, 1960, no. 6.
Landor, M. “Konformizm i traditsiia.” Voprosy literatury, 1963, no. 3.
Nedelin, V. “’Vozliubivshie voinu’ i ikh zhertvy.” Inostrannaia literatura, 1961, no. 7.
Zverev, A. “Tropinka iz topi.” Inostrannaia literatura, 1968, no. 6.