Dream Life of Balso Snell
"The virtuoso performances of a sophisticated stylist ... compact, skilful, and hilarious." - Randall Reid
American modernist Nathanael West''s first novel, The Dream Life of Balso Snell, is an anti-künstleroman; it''s a portrait of a young artist discovering his powerlessness. The title character, a lyric poet, takes a nightmare tour through the bowels of the Trojan Horse, meeting a series of fail...
"The virtuoso performances of a sophisticated stylist ... compact, skilful, and hilarious." - Randall Reid
American modernist Nathanael West''s first novel, The Dream Life of Balso Snell, is an anti-künstleroman; it''s a portrait of a young artist discovering his powerlessness. The title character, a lyric poet, takes a nightmare tour through the bowels of the Trojan Horse, meeting a series of fail...
