The Day Of The Locust
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The Day Of The Locust
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Author : Nathanael West
language : en
Publisher: DigiCat
Release Date : 2022-08-16
The Day Of The Locust written by Nathanael West and has been published by DigiCat this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-08-16 with Fiction categories.
DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "The Day of the Locust" by Nathanael West. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.
Miss Lonelyhearts
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Author : Nathanael West
language : en
Publisher: New Directions Publishing
Release Date : 1969
Miss Lonelyhearts written by Nathanael West and has been published by New Directions Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1969 with Fiction categories.
Two classic short stories, one about a male reporter who writes an advice column, and the other, about people who have migrated to California in expectation of health and ease.
The Day Of The Locust
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Author : Nathanael West
language : en
Publisher: Good Press
Release Date : 2021-08-30
The Day Of The Locust written by Nathanael West and has been published by Good Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-08-30 with Fiction categories.
Nathanael West's "The Day of the Locust" is a novel set in Hollywood that explores the depravity of its characters, each in a shameless quest for their own desires, be it sex, money or fame. Tod Hackett, a young artist from the Yale School of Fine arts comes to Hollywood for a new job in designing film sets and costume. But as the young man settles in, he soon becomes acquainted with the true nature of Hollywood as a place where people will do whatever it takes to succeed, and if you don't succeed, well let's just say it won't be pretty... Literary critic, Richard Gehman, writes that the novel was "more ambitious" than West's previous novel, Miss Lonelyhearts and "showed marked progress in West's thinking and in his approach toward maturity as a writer."
The Year Of The Locust
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Author : Terry Hayes
language : en
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Release Date : 2024-02-06
The Year Of The Locust written by Terry Hayes and has been published by Simon and Schuster this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-02-06 with Fiction categories.
Terry Hayes, author of the #1 global bestseller I Am Pilgrim, returns with this terrifying and eagerly awaited instant bestseller. If, like Kane, you’re a Denied Access Area spy for the CIA, then boundaries have no meaning. Your function is to go in, do whatever is required, and get out again—by whatever means necessary. You know when to run, when to hide—and when to shoot. But some places don’t play by the rules. Some places are too dangerous, even for a man of Kane’s experience. The badlands where the borders of Pakistan, Iran, and Afghanistan meet are such a place—a place where violence is the only way to survive. Kane travels there to exfiltrate a man with vital information for the safety of the West—but instead he meets an adversary who will take the world to the brink of extinction. A frightening, clever, vicious man with blood on his hands and vengeance in his heart...
Nathanael West And John Schlesinger The Day Of The Locust A Survey Of The Translation From Novel To Film
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Author : Julia Deitermann
language : en
Publisher: GRIN Verlag
Release Date : 2006-09-18
Nathanael West And John Schlesinger The Day Of The Locust A Survey Of The Translation From Novel To Film written by Julia Deitermann and has been published by GRIN Verlag this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006-09-18 with Literary Collections categories.
Seminar paper from the year 2001 in the subject American Studies - Comparative Literature, grade: 1,3, University of Augsburg (Lehrstuhl für Amerikanistik), course: Proseminar: Novels of the American Modernism, language: English, abstract: Although Nathanael West’s novel The Day of the Locust did not receive much attention when published in 1939, it is today considered one of the best and most revealing novels about Hollywood. Its reviews are outstanding and it has therefore become one of the landmarks in American writing. The Day of the Locust demonstrates the fragility of the American Dream and presents it from various perspectives. It points out the cruel world of film industry using devices of irony and satire. Therefore it resembles a “nightmare vision of humanity destroyed by its obsession with film”. West took the title of the novel from the Bible. In Revelation, people turn into locusts in order to follow their aim of destroying the whole world. They do not kill immediately, though, but only sting and hurt in order to let their victims die slowly. These locusts can be compared to the film industry in Hollywood which also exploits and slowly kills its people. Besides, in the Bible Jeremiah prophesies a necessary ending of the world which ought to lead mankind to a new life and a rebirth. In the novel, this image is taken up again. This aspect will be thoroughly discussed later, though. The concept of apocalypse can be found throughout the novel and beside violence and decadence, the devaluation of love is a prominent theme, too. West illustrates the moral decay of characters on the fringe of the entertainment industry, that are Homer Simpson, Faye Greener and Tod Hackett. Each character has come to California seeking fame or health in the shining city Los Angeles, and each suffers from his or her own history of desperation and shattered dreams. Producers had already thought about turning West’s novel into a film in the early 1950’s. As they feared that most of the satirical view would get lost, however, the film was not shot until 1974, when the famous director John Schlesinger committed himself to the adaptation. [...] This survey focuses on the translation from novel to film, compares and contrasts differences, and reveals the different perspectives of the characters. Furthermore, it will both examine the use of film techniques in Schlesinger’s adaptation and the meaning of symbolism in the film. Last but not least, a few commonly invoked critical viewpoints of the film will be discussed.
The Day Of The Locust
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Author : Nathanael West
language : en
Publisher: Penguin Classics
Release Date : 2000
The Day Of The Locust written by Nathanael West and has been published by Penguin Classics this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000 with Hollywood (Los Angeles, Calif.) categories.
The Day of the Locust is an exposure of the sordid reality beneath the surface of Hollywood, where West worked and The Dream Life of Balso Snell is a surrealist fantasy.
The Day Of The Locust And His Other Novels
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Author : Nathanael West
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1983
The Day Of The Locust And His Other Novels written by Nathanael West and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1983 with Fiction categories.
The Day Of The Locust Nathanael West
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Author : Nathanael West
language : en
Publisher: Lebooks Editora
Release Date : 2024-06-21
The Day Of The Locust Nathanael West written by Nathanael West and has been published by Lebooks Editora this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-06-21 with Fiction categories.
Nathanael West, originally named Nathan Weinstein, (1903 – 1940), was an American writer, primarily known for his satirical novels of the 1930s. His best-known works are "The Day of the Locust" and "Miss Lonelyhearts." Published in 1939, " The Day of the Locust" is a novel about the mythologies of Hollywood and the "American Dream." Enigmatic and disconcerting, this work narrates the experience of a set designer in a semi-hallucinatory and artificial Los Angeles (itself resembling a movie set), inhabited by a parade of eccentric characters and a crowd bewitched by the magic of cinema and promises of abundance and happiness. Both apocalyptic and moving, violent and absurdly comic, " The Day of the Locust" is, in the opinion of many, the best novel ever written about Hollywood.
The Day Of The Locust And Miss Lonelyhearts
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Author : Nathanael West
language : en
Publisher: Random House
Release Date : 2012-07-05
The Day Of The Locust And Miss Lonelyhearts written by Nathanael West and has been published by Random House this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-07-05 with Fiction categories.
In The Day of the Locust a young artist, Tod Hackett, arrives in LA full of dreams. But celebrity and artifice rule and he soon joins the ranks of the disenchanted that drift around the fringes of Hollywood. When he meets Faye Greener, an aspiring actress, he is intoxicated and his desperate passion explodes into rage... Miss Lonelyhearts is a decidedly off-kilter, darkly comic tale set in New York in the early 30s. A nameless man is assigned to produce a newspaper advice column. It was meant to be a joke. But as endless letters from the Desperate, Sick-of-it-All and Disillusioned pile up for Miss Lonelyhearts's attention the joke begins to escape him...
The Day Of The Locust
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Author : Nathanael West
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2009-09-09
The Day Of The Locust written by Nathanael West and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-09-09 with Literary Collections categories.