Word: nathanael
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...stage adaptation of Miss Lonelyhearts provides a torturous evening of theater, because the body of Nathanael West's wonderful novel has been ground up, its soul purged, and the resulting hamburg kneaded around a cast of very bad actors...
...post-World War II generation-beat or beatific-has not found symbolic spokesmen with anywhere near the talents of Fitzgerald, Hemingway or Nathanael West. In this novel, talented Author Kerouac, 35, does not join that literary league, either, but at least he suggests that his generation is not silent. With his barbaric yawp of a book. Kerouac commands attention as a kind of literary James Dean...
...married 31 years (no children), runs the papers' far-flung readers' service from London's Kemsley House, where his musty office is decorated with postcard trophies of his favorite off-duty pastime-visiting cathedrals. The antithesis of hooch-soaked Miss Lonelyhearts, the wretched male troubleshooter* of Nathanael West's novel, plump Leslie Hubble is a meticulous reporter and devoted do-gooder who works 6½ days a week at his job, sometimes spends months ferreting out a story...
...COMPLETE WORKS OF NATHANAEL WEST (421pp.)-Farrar, Straus & Cudahy...
...knowledge, what forgiveness?'' asked T. S. Eliot as he entered the dry season of 1920. At about the same time, another American writer who devoted his life to illuminating this bleakly ruthless question was growing up. Manhattan-born Nathan Weinstein. who later went by the name of Nathanael West, was a knowledgeable man, and nothing he knew induced him to forgive anything. In his brief life (he died* in 1940, aged 37), West wrote only four brief novels, but they were a full life's work. He wrote during that great interlude of negation, the Depression, when...