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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语言 英语 ● 格式 EPUB ● 网页 138 ● ISBN 9783753453774 ● 文件大小 0.2 MB ● 出版者 Books on Demand ● 发布时间 2021 ● 版 1 ● 下载 24 个月 ● 货币 EUR ● ID 7827166 ● 复制保护 社会DRM
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