Kirjailija
Nathanael West
Kirjat ja teokset yhdessä paikassa: 23 kirjaa, julkaisuja vuosilta 1983–2025, suosituimpiin kuuluu The Day of the Locust. Vertaile teosten hintoja ja tarkista saatavuus suomalaisista kirjakaupoista.
23 kirjaa
Kirjojen julkaisuvuodet: 1983–2025.
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Miss Lonelyhearts is a novella by Nathanael West. It is about a male newspaper advice columnist who provides advice to lonesome people who becomes so affected by their desperate letters that he spirals into depression, drinking, and ill-considered sexual affairs, which leads to his downfall. In the story, Miss Lonelyhearts is the pseudonym for an unnamed male newspaper columnist writing an advice column for the lovelorn and lonesome, a duty that the other newspaper staff consider to be a joke. As Miss Lonelyhearts reads letters from desperate New Yorkers, he feels terribly burdened and falls into a cycle of deep depression, accompanied by heavy drinking and occasional bar fights. He is also the victim of the pranks and cynical advice of Shrike, his feature editor at the newspaper.
Fru Hjertesorg er navnet p en mandlig klummeskribent i en avis i New York Times. Han bliver drillet af de andre p redaktionen, som synes, at hans klumme er noget sentimentalt pjat. Men fru Hjertesorg tager de mange henvendelser fra ensomme, elskovssyge l sere alt for n rt og falder hen i en dyb depression med alkoholisme som sin tro f lgesvend. Han fors ger hvad som helst for at undslippe de deprimerende tanker, men hverken religion eller risikable aff rer synes at hj lpe. "Fru Hjertesorg" er en satirisk roman, hvori den trykkende desillusion, der herskede i USA under depressionen i 1930'erne, for alvor f r en stemme. Bogen regnes blandt en af samtidens vigtigste romaner og skaffede Nathanael West en stor l serskare.
'He began to wonder if he himself didn't suffer from the ingrained, morbid apathy he liked to draw in others'Tod Hackett is a brilliant young artist - and a man in danger of losing his heart. Brought to an LA studio as a set-designer, he is soon caught up in a fantasy world where the cult of celebrity rules. But when he becomes besotted by the beautiful Faye, an aspiring actress and occasional call-girl, his dream rapidly becomes a nightmare. For, with little in the way of looks and no money to buy her time, Tod's desperate passion can only lead to frustration, disillusionment and rage ... The Penguin English Library - collectable general readers' editions of the best fiction in English, from the eighteenth century to the end of the Second World War.
"Det var nästan tid att gå för dagen när Tod Hackett hörde ett förfärligt oväsen på vägen utanför kontoret." Gräshopporna (1939) är en roman om Hollywood, men inte om det glamorösa Hollywood, rampljusets och stjärnornas värld, utan om de bländande kulissernas baksida. Gräshopporna, det är den hord av udda, tragikomiska och patetiska existenser som lever i kulissernas skuggsida och som livnär sig på den falska drömmen om rampljus och stjärnroller: det är armén av statister, ett brokigt och färggrant proletariat som dras som flugor till ateljéernas strålkastarljus. I denna miljö utspelas ett drama som utgör den verkliga kontrasten till drömfabrikens happy ends, och som är både gripande och fängslande i sin tragiska obönhörlighet.
Admired by F. Scott Fitzgerald, Dorothy Parker, and Dashiell Hammett, and hailed as one of the Best 100 English-language novels by Time magazine, The Day of the Locust continues to influence American writers, artists, and culture. Bob Dylan wrote the classic song Day of the Locusts in homage and Matt Groening s Homer Simpson is named after one of its characters. No novel more perfectly captures the nuttier side of Hollywood. Here the lens is turned on its fringes actors out of work, film extras with big dreams, and parents lining their children up for small roles. But it s the bit actress Faye Greener who steals the spotlight with her wildly convuluted dreams of stardom: I m going to be a star some day if I m not I ll commit suicide. "
Miss Lonelyhearts
Nathanael West; Harold (INT) Bloom
New Directions Publishing Corporation
2013
pokkari
Praised by great writers from Flannery O'Conner to Jonathan Lethem, Miss Lonelyhearts is an American classic. A newspaper reporter assigned to write the agony column in the depths of the Great Depression seeks respite from the poor souls who send in their sad letters, only to be further tormented by his viciously cynical editor, Shrike. This single volume of Miss Lonelyhearts features its original Alvin Lustig jacket design, as well as a new introduction by Harold Bloom, who calls it "my favorite work of modern American fiction."
Day of the Locust and Miss Lonelyhearts
Nathanael West
Vintage
2012
pokkari
Halvin toimitettuna 16,20 €
In The Day of the Locust a young artist, Tod Hackett, arrives in LA full of dreams. 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.
Miss Lonelyhearts & The Day of the Locust
Nathanael West; Jonathan (INT) Lethem; John (AFT) Sanford
New Directions Publishing Corporation
2009
pokkari
A Cool Million and the Dream Life of Balso Snell: Two Novels
Nathanael West
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
2006
nidottu
Two historical works feature the author's comic and horrific depictions of early twentieth-century America, including the satirical Depression-era A Cool Million and metaphorical fantasy The Dream Life of Balso Snell. By the author of The Day of the Locust. Original.
Runoilija Balso Snell käyskentelee Troijan lähettyvillä ja tultuaan Troijan hevosen luokse tunkeutuu tämän sisään. "Kävellessään eteenpäin Balso tajusi, että puuhevosta asuttivat ainoastaan yleisöään etsivät kirjailijat ja hän päätti ettei häntä huijattaisi enää kuulemaan yhtään tarinaa. Jos jotain kerrottaisiin, hän kertoisi sen itse." Balso Snellin unielämä on groteski satiiri länsimaisesta elämänmuodosta ja sen kirjallisista ilmentymistä. Nathanael West (1903-1940), amerikkalainen kirjailija joka ehti ennen kuolemaansa auto-onnettomuudessa kirjoittaa neljä romaania. Westiltä on aikaisemmin julkaistu suomeksi Vastaathan kirjeeseeni, Miss Lonelyhearts, Iisi miljoona ja Heinäsirkan aika.