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The Day of the Locust is a novel about Hollywood and its corrupting touch, about the American dream turned into a sun-drenched California nightmare. Nathanael West's Hollywood is not the glamorous "home of the stars" but a seedy world of little people, some hopeful, some despairing, all twisted by their by their own desires -- from the ironically romantic artist narrator, to a macho movie cowboy, a middle-aged innocent from America's heartland, and the hard-as-nails call girl would-be-star whom they all lust after. An unforgettable portrayal of a world that mocks the real and rewards the sham, turns its back on love to plunge into empty sex, and breeds a savage violence that is its own undoing, this novel stands as a classic indictment of all that is most extravagant and uncontrolled in American life.
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The Day of the Locust, Nathanael West
- Lingua
- Pubblicato
- 1983
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- Titolo
- The Day of the Locust
- Lingua
- Inglese
- Autori
- Nathanael West
- Editore
- Signet Classics
- Pubblicato
- 1983
- Formato
- In brossura
- ISBN10
- 0451523482
- ISBN13
- 9780451523488
- Serie
- Tag
- Narrativa, Tema stórico, Classici, Donne, USA, Letteratura Americana, XX Secolo, Adattato in un film, Sogni, Hollywood, Parodia
- Prima pubblicazione
- 1939
- Titolo originale
- The Day of the Locust
- Valutazione
- 3,75 su 5
- Descrizione
- The Day of the Locust is a novel about Hollywood and its corrupting touch, about the American dream turned into a sun-drenched California nightmare. Nathanael West's Hollywood is not the glamorous "home of the stars" but a seedy world of little people, some hopeful, some despairing, all twisted by their by their own desires -- from the ironically romantic artist narrator, to a macho movie cowboy, a middle-aged innocent from America's heartland, and the hard-as-nails call girl would-be-star whom they all lust after. An unforgettable portrayal of a world that mocks the real and rewards the sham, turns its back on love to plunge into empty sex, and breeds a savage violence that is its own undoing, this novel stands as a classic indictment of all that is most extravagant and uncontrolled in American life.