Miss Lonelyhearts by Nathanael West is a powerful and unsettling modernist novel that exposes the despair hidden beneath the surface of American life during the Great Depression. Written in a stark, economical style, the book is both a work of social criticism and a...

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A Cool Million: The Dismantling of Lemuel Pitkin (1934) by Nathanael West is a biting political satire that mercilessly parodies the American Dream. Written with sharp irony and grotesque humor, the novel dismantles the myth of success through the tragicomic story of an...

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The Dream Life of Balso Snell is Nathanael West’s surreal and satirical debut novel, a bold and unconventional work that defies traditional narrative form. Irreverent and absurd, it reflects West’s fascination with the grotesque, the fantastic, and the collapse of...

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Nathanael West’s The Day of the Locust is a dark, satirical portrait of Hollywood during the Great Depression, where dreams of fame and success often dissolve into disillusionment, violence, and despair. Widely regarded as West’s masterpiece, the novel captures both...

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This collection brings together the complete novels of Nathanael West, one of the most original and incisive writers of 20th-century American literature. Known for his dark humor, biting satire, and unflinching critique of society, West’s works remain as...

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Parution : 2024-12-27
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An Expressionist black comedy set in New York City during the Great Depression. Miss Lonelyhearts is an unnamed male newspaper columnist writing an advice column for the lovelorn and lonesome, a duty that the other newspaper staff considers a joke. As Miss Lonelyhearts...

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A Cool Million presents the dismantling of Lemuel Pitkin, piece by piece. As a satire of the Horatio Alger myth of success, the novel is evocative of Voltaire's Candide, which satirized the philosophical optimism of Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz and Alexander Pope. Pitkin...

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West's first novel, it presents a young man's immature and cynical search for meaning in a series of dreamlike encounters inside the entrails of the Trojan Horse. Balso, the protagonist, comes across the Trojan Horse in the tall grass around Troy and promptly seeks a...

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The Day of the Locust is a novel by American author Nathanael West set in Hollywood, California.The novel follows a young artist from the Yale School of Fine Arts named Tod Hackett, who has been hired by a Hollywood studio to do scene design and painting. While he works...

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