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Praised by great writers from Flannery O'Conner to Jonathan Lethem, Miss Lonelyhearts is an American classic. A newspaper reporter assigned to write the agony column in the depths of the Great Depression seeks respite from the poor souls who send in their sad letters, only to be further tormented by his viciously cynical editor, Shrike. This single volume of Miss Lonelyhearts features its original Alvin Lustig jacket design, as well as a new i...

Die legendäre Satire auf die Traumfabrik Hollywood. Nathanael West, der wie sein Freund F. Scott Fitzgerald jahrelang als Drehbuchautor in Hollywood verschlissen wurde, hat den Tagträumen des Filmproletariats seine Stimme gegeben: ein Rachefeldzug gegen Hollywood, der den Alptraum Amerika entlarvt.

Nirgends gedeihen Illusionen prächtiger als in Hollywood, nirgends werden sie brutaler zerschmettert. So sind es die Düpierten der Traumfabrik, denen der Autor hier ein Denkmal setzt. Seine filmreife Parodie ist ein Geniestreich - die imposante Entlarvung des neuzeitlichen Wahns, um jeden Preis ein Star werden zu müssen, und ein tiefer Seufzer angesichts evidenter Aussichtslosigkeit.

»Haben Sie Sorgen? Brauchen Sie Rat? - Schreiben Sie Miss Lonelyhearts!« Aber Miss Lonelyhearts ist als Seelsorger des modernen Amerika schlecht geeignet: Zum Zyniker fehlt ihm die Unmenschlichkeit, zum Wahnleben die gesunde Dummheit. Er versucht andere Möglichkeiten als die heuchlerischen Trostworte, die sein Job bereithält - bis er selbst reif ist für Miss Lonelyhearts.

In The Day of the Locust a young artist, Tod Hackett, arrives in LA full of dreams. When he meets Faye Greener, an aspiring actress, he is intoxicated and his desperate passion explodes into rage... Miss Lonelyhearts is a decidedly off-kilter, darkly comic tale set in New York in the early 30s.

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The Day of the Locust is a 1939 novel by American author Nathanael West, set in Hollywood, California during the Great Depression, its overarching themes deal with the alienation and desperation of a broad group of odd individuals who exist at the fringes of the Hollywood movie industry. In 1998, the Modern Library ranked The Day of the Locust #73 on its list of the 100 best English-language novels of the 20th century. Time magazine included t...

Il romanzo inizia con il protagonista, Tod Hackett, che passeggia per le vie della città. Ma le vie dove cammina sono finte: la storia si muove tra la cartapesta e le scenografie di Hollywood, città dove gli uomini arrivano con grandi sogni e illusioni, per ritrovarsi annoiati, squallidi, vuoti, invidiosi e crudeli. "Una locusta tra milioni di locuste che possono, se fanno folla, calpestare i bambini e sradicare gli alberi". "Il giorno della l...

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Nathanael West was only thirty-seven when he died in 1940, but his depictions of the sometimes comic, sometimes horrifying aspects of the American scene rival those of William Faulkner and Flannery O'Connor. "A Cool Million, " written in 1934, is a satiric Horatio Alger story set in the midst of the Depression. "The Dream Life of Balso Snell "(1931) was described by one critic as "a fantasy about some rather scatological adventures of the hero...

The Day of the Locust is a 1939 novel by American author Nathanael West, set in Hollywood, California during the Great Depression, its overarching themes deal with the alienation and desperation of a broad group of odd individuals who exist at the fringes of the Hollywood movie industry. In 1998, the Modern Library ranked The Day of the Locust #73 on its list of the 100 best English-language novels of the 20th century. Time magazine included t...

The Day of the Locust is a 1939 novel by American author Nathanael West, set in Hollywood, California during the Great Depression, its overarching themes deal with the alienation and desperation of a broad group of odd individuals who exist at the fringes of the Hollywood movie industry. In 1998, the Modern Library ranked The Day of the Locust #73 on its list of the 100 best English-language novels of the 20th century. Time magazine included t...

Admired by F. Scott Fitzgerald, Dorothy Parker, and Dashiell Hammett, and hailed as one of the "Best 100 English-language novels" by Time magazine, The Day of the Locust continues to influence American writers, artists, and culture. Bob Dylan wrote the classic song "Day of the Locusts" in homage and Matt Groening's Homer Simpson is named after one of its characters. No novel more perfectly captures the nuttier side of Hollywood. Here the lens ...

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Ingiustamente sottovalutato in vita, il talento narrativo di Nathanael West ha ottenuto il meritato riconoscimento solo dopo la sua morte, avvenuta nel 1940 per un incidente d'auto, a trentasette anni. Oggi West è annoverato tra i grandi classici del Novecento americano. La "Signorina Cuorinfranti" del titolo è la firma di una seguitissima rubrica di consigli ai lettori di un quotidiano newyorkese, dietro la quale si nasconde in realtà un uomo...

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First published in 1933, Miss Lonelyhearts remains one of the most shocking works of 20th century American literature, as unnerving as a glob of black bile vomited up at a church social: empty, blasphemous, and horrific. Set in New York during the Depression and probably West's most powerful work, Miss Lonelyhearts concerns a nameless man assigned to produce a newspaper advice column - but as time passes he begins to break under the endless mi...