NATHANAEL WEST, who died in 1940 at the age of thirty-six, published four curious, highly original novels during the thirties, of which the second, Miss Lonelyhearts ... that it does not depict ...
Alive Inside the Wreck: A Biography of Nathanael West
A writer is what a writer does, not what he means ... with the first reprinting ofMiss Lonelyhearts—first in France and then in America and then around the world. In April 1946, six years after his ...
Alive Inside the Wreck: A Biography of Nathanael West
A writer is what a writer does, not what he means ... with the first reprinting ofMiss Lonelyhearts—first in France and then in America and then around the world. In April 1946, six years after his ...
Absurdity in The Stranger, The Myth of Sisyphus, and Miss Lonelyhearts
Concern with the "absurdity" of the human condition, believing that that the world does not offer a basis for people's lives and values, has pervaded the thought of many writers. The protagonists in ...
1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die by The Book
One Thousand and One Nights is a collection of Middle Eastern and South Asian stories and folk tales compiled in Arabic during the Islamic Golden Age. It is often known in English as the Arabian Ni ...
Rear Window (1954)
[Note: All three women, Miss Lonelyhearts, Miss Torso ... I mean, according to you, people should be born, live and die on the same spot. Jeff: SHUT UP! Did you ever eat fish heads in rice? Lisa: Of ...
New York chronicle
But it suffers from clichés, banalities, and longueurs. Also, a cartoon Marxism—richies very, very bad, grinding their heels into the poor—does the opera no favors. Miss Lonelyhearts, by Lowell ...
The Absurdity of Man
Absurdity is defined as that which is contrary to reason; clearly untrue, unreasonable or ridiculous. It is often a topic in existentialist writings relating to life. This subject is prevalent in ...
Rear Window (1954)
She is drawn to listening to the melodious sound of the composer's piano playing ("Mona Lisa") in the apartment across the way during his party, asking: Lisa: Where does ... Lisa." 'Miss Torso' ...
Rogue’s Review # 3: The Penguin
Not so Ozzie. His current incarnation as a nightclub boss is really missing something without all the whipping out of ‘brellacopters at every available opportunity. The Penguin’s toys, though, in ...
