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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
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- Erscheinungsdatum
- 1983
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- Sprache
- Englisch
- Autor*innen
- Nathanael West
- Verlag
- Signet Classics
- Erscheinungsdatum
- 1983
- Einband
- Paperback
- ISBN10
- 0451523482
- ISBN13
- 9780451523488
- Reihe
- Schlagwörter
- Belletristik, Historisches Thema, Klassiker, Frauen, USA, Amerikanische Literatur, 20. Jahrhundert, Verfilmt, Träume, Hollywood, Parodie
- Erstveröffentlichung
- 1939
- Originaltitel
- The Day of the Locust
- Bewertung
- 3,75 von 5 Sternen
- Beschreibung
- 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.