Vit Babenco's Reviews > Ragtime

Ragtime is piano music with a syncopated melody.
Ragtime is a ragged music of the ragged times.
And I would call the novel Ragtime a highly syncopated prose…

He suddenly had an idea for a film. A bunch of children who were pals, white black, fat thin, rich poor, all kinds, mischievous little urchins who would have funny adventures in their own neighborhood, a society of ragamuffins, like all of us, a gang, getting into trouble and getting out again. Actually not one movie but several were made of this vision. And by that time the era of Ragtime had run out, with the heavy breath of the machine, as if history were no more than a tune on a player piano.

History isn’t a timetable. Every person brings into the world one’s own history.