A Cool Million 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 Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz and Alexander Pope. Pitkin is a typical Schlemiel, stumbling from one situation to the next; he gets robbed, cheated, unjustly arrested, frequently beaten and exploited.
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Nathanael West (born Nathan Weinstein; October 17, 1903 – December 22, 1940) was an American author and screenwriter. He is remembered for two darkly satirical novels: Miss Lonelyhearts (1933) and The Day of the Locust (1939), set respectively in the newspaper and Hollywood film industries.
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Idioma Inglés ● Formato EPUB ● Páginas 138 ● ISBN 9783753453774 ● Tamaño de archivo 0.2 MB ● Editorial Books on Demand ● Publicado 2021 ● Edición 1 ● Descargable 24 meses ● Divisa EUR ● ID 7827166 ● Protección de copia DRM social
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