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- Author: West Nathanael
- Publisher: Šareni dućan
- Availability: Available
- Condition: New book
- Code: 56251
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West Nathanael
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Nathanael West: The Day of the Locust
Dark, raw, bloody, dark humor... the side of the Hollywood "dream factory", all those rejected actors, ambitious parents and extras, red carpet fanatics, as well as the whole gallery of marginals are woven into this famous book. This is also the reason why it was included in many "millennial" best lists - Modern Library and Time magazine, among others, included The Day of the Grasshopper among the hundred best novels written in the English language in the twentieth century. Despite the seductive main character, the real (book) candy is the ambitious painter Hackett, similar to the American version of Josef K. Kafkin, or to Robert Musil's Ulrich, and if we are closer, to Filip Latinovicz's Krležin. The next simile can be connected with another of our "capitalists" Marinković and his Cyclops, and we can also add Joyce's Ulysses - both titles, just like West's Day of the Locusts, which is associated with the Old Testament plague, just mythically hover over the apparently banal excesses of "ordinary people". All these parallels are convenient, and probably the most interesting is the similar devastating economic reality and the crisis of morals and true values in the depression of the 1930s and the current recession, which makes Skakavce very relevant even today.
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- Author: West Nathanael
- Publisher: Šareni dućan
- Year of publication:2012
- Place of publication:Koprivnica
- Pages:220
- Dimensions:12x20 cm
- Script:Latin script
- Condition:New book
- Binding:Softcover
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