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- W4249372160 abstract "Nathanael West (1903–40), novelist, screenwriter, and one of the funniest and most despairing satirists of the twentieth century, published only two novels and two novellas, yet his critical esteem has risen sharply since his death at the age of 37. In the charged political climate of the 1930s, West's books, as he put it, seemed to “meet no needs except [his] own.” They were too bleak for leftist radicals, too mired in the world of consumer culture for highbrow critics, too crude for the popular press. Today, however, West's fiction – with its canny attention to the psychological dynamics of mass and consumer culture; its devastating skepticism about American nationalism, nativism, and naive folksiness; its avant garde deployment of nihilistic humor in the service of social critique; and its deft borrowing of the forms, cliches, and idioms of American popular culture – is as fresh and relevant as ever. As a shrewd analyst of the politics of sentiment, as a Hollywood writer, and as a late modernist obsessed with the status of America‐as‐simulacra, West has also proven a crucial figure in the broad reassessment of literary modernism over the last decade, which has proven more hospitable to “bad” modernisms that challenge the high modernist caricature of aesthetic arch‐seriousness." @default.
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