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- The_Day_of_the_Locust abstract "The Day of the Locust is a 1939 novel by American author Nathanael West, set in Hollywood, California. The novel follows a young artist from the Yale School of Fine Arts named Tod Hackett who travels to California in search of inspiration for a new painting titled \"The Burning of Los Angeles,\" which Tod is set to begin. While the cast of characters Tod befriends are a conglomerate of Hollywood stereotypes, his greater discovery is a part of society whose \"eyes filled with hatred,\" and \"had come to California to die.\" This undercurrent of society captures the despair of Americans who worked and saved their entire lives only to realize, too late, that the American dream was more illusive than they imagine. Their anger boils into rage, and the craze over the latest Hollywood premier erupts violently into mob rule and absolute chaos.In the introduction to The Day of the Locust, Richard Gehman writes, the novel was \"more ambitious\" than Miss Lonelyhearts, and \"showed marked progress in West's thinking and in his approach toward maturity as a writer.\" Gehman calls the novel \"episodic in structure, but panoramic in form.\" In many instances, the novel displays a cinematic effect in which scenes gather speed and zoom in on characters before fading abruptly to the next scene. West never could figure out why his works received such erratic praise and scorn by journalists and critics. West corresponded with F. Scott Fitzgerald and Jack Conway through letters, and William Carlos Williams published West's work in his magazine: Contact.Novelists of his era praised Nathanael West's writing, but notoriety and critical acclaim for his works lagged behind his peers in terms of readers and book sales. The Day of the Locust only sold about 1480 copies following its first publishing. Critics began to situate The Day of the Locust within the canon in the 1950s, more than a decade after a fatal car crash claimed the author's life. In 1998, the Modern Library ranked The Day of the Locust seventy-third on its list of the 100 best English-language novels of the 20th century. Time magazine included the novel in its list of 100 best English-language novels from 1923 to 2005. Noted critic Harold Bloom included it in his list of canonical works in the book The Western Canon. The novel was adapted into the critically acclaimed film The Day of the Locust (1975), directed by John Schlesinger.".
- The_Day_of_the_Locust author Nathanael_West.
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- The_Day_of_the_Locust author Nathanael_West.
- The_Day_of_the_Locust caption "1939".
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