Miss Lonelyhearts (), which West envisioned as "a novel in the form of a comic strip," tells of an advice-to-the-lovelorn columnist who becomes tragically embroiled in the desperate lives of his readers. The Day of the Locust () is West's great dystopian Hollywood novel based on his experiences at the seedy fringes of the movie www.doorway.ru by: Miss Lonelyhearts' eponymous character tries to beat the despair of reading people's problems for a living and sort of, almost, succeeds. In The Day of the Locust, men and women flock to Hollywood seeking The Prize (be it a beautiful woman, fame, or simply an improved quality of life eating tropical fruits under palm trees); complications arise. It's mostly a downer/5. Nathanael West: Novels and Other Writings: The Dream Life of Balso Snell / Miss Lonelyhearts / A Cool Million / The Day of the Locust / Letters (Library of America) Hardcover – August 1, by Nathanael West (Author), Sacvan Bercovitch (Editor) out of Cited by:
West's focus on the interior dream-life of the masses found a perfect outlet in his Hollywood novel The Day of the Locust, but it was the New York novel Miss Lonelyhearts that gave West his first critical success. Despite the critical praise, West's novels never caught on commercially in his lifetime. Miss Lonelyhearts. Miss Lonelyhearts is a novella by Nathanael West. He began writing it early in and completed the manuscript in November of Published in , it is an Expressionist black comedy set in New York City during the Great Depression. "Miss Lonelyhearts -- compared by Flannery O'Connor to Faulkner's As I Lay Dying -- is about a newspaper reporter assigned to write the agony column, but, caught up in a vision of suffering, he seeks a way out (through art, sex, religion), only to be rebuffed at every turn by his cynical editor www.doorway.ru Day of the Locust -- considered by many to be the best novel ever written about Hollywood.
Nathanael West: Novels and Other Writings: The Dream Life of Balso Snell / Miss Lonelyhearts / A Cool Million / The Day of the Locust / Letters (Library of America) Hardcover – August 1, by Nathanael West (Author), Sacvan Bercovitch (Editor) out of 5 stars. 28 ratings. See all formats and editions. Miss Lonelyhearts' eponymous character tries to beat the despair of reading people's problems for a living and sort of, almost, succeeds. In The Day of the Locust, men and women flock to Hollywood seeking The Prize (be it a beautiful woman, fame, or simply an improved quality of life eating tropical fruits under palm trees); complications arise. It's mostly a downer. His calm was so perfect that he could not destroy it even by being conscious of it. ”. ― Nathanael West, Miss Lonelyhearts / The Day of the Locust. 10 likes. Like. “Like a dead man, only friction could make him warm or violence make him mobile.”. ― Nathanael West, Miss Lonelyhearts / The Day of the Locust. 10 likes.
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