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- Author: West Nathanael
- Publisher: Dereta
- Availability: Available
- Condition: Excellent
- Code: 52243
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West Nathanael
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Nathanael West: The Day of the Grasshopper
In Hollywood in the 1930s, painter Todd Hackett is forced to work as a set designer in order to survive. The world around him has little touch with reality - drunken cowboys, depressed clowns and terrified Napoleonic officers roam around, while outside the studio, America sinks and crumbles in the Great Depression. The film industry determines the measure of reality, and such escapism on a national level gives the sober observer the impression of an imminent, inevitable collapse. Hackett is obsessed with the idea of painting a huge canvas of Los Angeles in flames, a terrible parable that threatens to come true, because in Hollywood the line between reality and fiction is often invisible. A whole gallery of vivid characters gravitates around Hackett: Faye Griner, a capricious and spoiled femme fatale, whose charm the heroes of this novel cannot resist; Homer Simpson (yes, the main character of the Simpsons series is named after him), a rump from Iowa who finds the meaning of his futile existence only when he meets the irresistible Faye; Honest Abe Kusić, garbage, so angry that even an average centimeter tall could not handle such a quantity of food...
The language of this novel is authentic and ingenious, the characterization is brilliant and brought to the point of absurdity, and the hero's behavior and gestures are on the verge of pantomime, which leaves the readers enough space for their own interpretations. The Day of the Grasshopper belongs to the canon of American literature, it has become mandatory reading and is on all lists of the most important national novels. Based on it, a film of the same name was made in 1975 with Donald Sutherland in the role of Homer Simpson, and it was directed by Oscar winner John Schlesinger.
Translation from English: Nikola Matić
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- Author: West Nathanael
- Publisher: Dereta
- Year of publication:2017
- Place of publication:Beograd
- Pages:203
- Dimensions:14x21 cm
- Script:Latin script
- Condition:Excellent
- Binding:Hardcover
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