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Tod Hackett is a gifted young artist who is also on the verge of losing his heart. When he is hired as a set designer at a LA studio, he is quickly immersed in a dream world ruled by the celebrity cult. But when he falls in love with Faye, a beautiful aspiring actress and occasional call girl, his ideal quickly turns into a nightmare. Tod's frantic devotion will only lead to frustration, despair, and fury because she has nothing in the way of ...

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...

Tod Hackett is a gifted young artist who is also on the verge of losing his heart. When he is hired as a set designer at a LA studio, he is quickly immersed in a dream world ruled by the celebrity cult. But when he falls in love with Faye, a beautiful aspiring actress and occasional call girl, his ideal quickly turns into a nightmare. Tod's frantic devotion will only lead to frustration, despair, and fury because she has nothing in the way of ...

Fru Hjertesorg er navnet på en mandlig klummeskribent i en avis i New York Times. Han bliver drillet af de andre på redaktionen, som synes, at hans klumme er noget sentimentalt pjat. Men fru Hjertesorg tager de mange henvendelser fra ensomme, elskovssyge læsere alt for nært og falder hen i en dyb depression med alkoholisme som sin tro følgesvend. Han forsøger hvad som helst for at undslippe de deprimerende tanker, men hverken religion eller ri...

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The virtuoso performances of a sophisticated stylist ... compact, skilful, and hilarious." - Randall ReidAmerican modernist Nathanael West's first novel, The Dream Life of Balso Snell, is an anti-künstleroman, it's a portrait of a young artist discovering his powerlessness. The title character, a lyric poet, takes a nightmare tour through the bowels of the Trojan Horse, meeting a series of failed and frustrated writers along the way. Each surr...

West, a parodist with rancid genius, achieved his masterwork in Miss Lonelyhearts." - Harold BloomAn American classic praised by great writers from Flannery O'Conner to Jonathan Lethem, Miss Lonelyhearts is an Expressionist black comedy set in New York City during the Great Depression. The blackly comic energy of Nathanael West's Miss Lonelyhearts - its caustic ebullience, the strange buoyancy of its suffering - is a remarkably American achiev...

The most diabolical humor ... Nat's best book is A Cool Million.' - John FanteA Cool Million: or The Dismantling of Lemuel Pitkin is Nathanael West's third novel, published in 1934. It is a brutal satire of eternal optimism.A Cool Million, as its subtitle suggests, 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 phi...

The Day of the Locust is a 1939 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 he plans an important painting to be called "The Burning of Los Angeles, " a portrayal of the chaotic and fiery holocaust which will destroy the city. While the cast of c...

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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 th...

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Dove poteva nascere questo romanzo rivoluzionario se non nella New York della Grande Depressione? E da dove poteva trarre la sua travolgente carica ironica se non negli ambienti ebraici dell'Upper West Side, dove Nathanael West, precursore di scrittori quali Saul Bellow e Philip Roth, è nato e cresciuto? "Miss cuori solitari" è così il capostipite di una grande tradizione letteraria, ma anche teatrale e cinematografica, americana. Nel romanzo,...

He began to wonder if he himself didn't suffer from the ingrained, morbid apathy he liked to draw in others.'Tod Hackett is a brilliant young artist - and a man in danger of losing his heart. Brought to an LA studio as a set-designer, he is soon caught up in a fantasy world where the cult of celebrity rules.But when he becomes besotted by the beautiful Faye, an aspiring actress and occasional call-girl, his dream rapidly becomes a nightmare. F...

Nella New York degli anni Trenta, un giornalista, sotto lo pseudonimo «Miss Lonelyhearts», risponde alle disperate lettere inviate alla sua rubrica da innumerevoli cuori solitari e finisce con l'esserne oppresso al punto da scivolare in un esistenziale girone infernale verso una surreale ultima caduta. La vicenda del protagonista si racconta attraverso vignette che si succedono l'una all'altra come in un fumetto: il discorso intessuto di immag...