A Cool Million () Nathanael West () “Perhaps the first thing to be said about A Cool Million is that it is not very good. By itself, it has no more claim to our attention than several dozen properly forgotten books of the thirties. The burlesque in A Cool Million is consistently heavy and only intermittently funny. Worse, it largely isolates the reader. Nathanael West may be America's bitterest novelist, and A Cool Million, or the Dismantling of Lemuel Pitkin (),written in the worst years of The Great Depression, is by far his bitterest work. West loathed the cowardly illusions we call “dreams”--the utopian dream, the redemption-through-art dream, the redemption-through-compassion dream, the salvation dream, the romantic love dream—and /5. A Cool Million: The Dismantling of Lemuel Pitkin is a twentieth-century satirical novel by Nathanael West. First published in , the book satirizes the American Dream and the idea of eternal optimism through the tribulations and mishaps of its main character. A critically acclaimed novel, .
In Nathanael West. In A Cool Million (), West effectively mocks the American success dream popularized by Horatio Alger by portraying a hero who slides from bad to worse while doing the supposedly right thing. In his last years West worked as a screenwriter in Hollywood. A Cool Million | Nathanael West was born Nathan Weinstein in New York City on October 17th, Nathanael didn't really appreciate the qualities of an academic education. He forged his high school transcript to gain admission to Tufts and to get into Brown University appropriated the transcript of a fellow Tufts student who, conveniently, was also named Nathan Weinstein. A Cool Million: The Dismantling of Lemuel Pitkin is Nathanael West's third novel, published in It is a brutal satire of eternal optimism. A Cool Million, as its subtitle suggests, presents 'the dismantling of Lemuel Pitkin,' piece by piece. As a satire of the Horatio Alger myth of success, the novel is evocative of Voltaire's Candide, which satirized the philosophical optimism of.
1, Paperback. 70 offers from $ Nathanael West: Novels and Other Writings: The Dream Life of Balso Snell / Miss Lonelyhearts / A Cool Million / The Day of the Locust / Letters (Library of America) Nathanael West. out of 5 stars. Hardcover. 51 offers from $ A Cool Million: The Dismantling of Lemuel Pitkin is a twentieth-century satirical novel by Nathanael West. First published in , the book satirizes the American Dream and the idea of eternal optimism through the tribulations and mishaps of its main character. A critically acclaimed novel, it is a classic parable of s America. Nathanael West may be America's bitterest novelist, and A Cool Million, or the Dismantling of Lemuel Pitkin (),written in the worst years of The Great Depression, is by far his bitterest work. West loathed the cowardly illusions we call “dreams”--the utopian dream, the redemption-through-art dream, the redemption-through-compassion dream, the salvation dream, the romantic love dream—and foremost among the dreams he loathed was “The American Dream": the abiding fiction that.
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