4wt : w 't I . Page Eight THE MICHIGAN DAILY Sunday, April 29, 1956 Smndav. Annr 29 1956 THE MICHIGAN DAILY J' JILAR ILJi ..1 ! . J . . ._ . I a/er4 JEWELERS CATERINGix UNIVERSITY SINGE WA TCHES HAMILTON sT5I~CE ELGIN BULOVA 717 NORTH UNIVERSITY - near JNaer' TO OF MICHIGAN 1858 DIAMONDS WEDDING RINGS Hill Auditorium NATHANAEL WEST ...the undamental concep Half-Neglected Genius - Irrr n~r 1 rrr r rrr rr r In n Out of Tune with His Time - Seen To Appeal To Ours See results the flu you use this neu or BLACKI and LA At last for you to use at home, beauty authority FRANCES DENNEY releases her salon treatment that swiftly, safely, "lifts-out" and washes -away blackheads! Years of Beauty Experience FRANCES DENNEY success with this new treatment has been overwhelming. Women whose complexions were marred by black- heads and coarsened by large pores saw breath-taking results the very first time. Not only did blackheads actually rinse away but pore openings seemed to disappear. 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He knows that he is likely to be sub- jecting himself to emotional ex- haustion. Reading a West novel is like a furious sprint in which one's staying power is never taxed butf in which one is gasping at the end. Dissemination of informationp about West will not result in at West movement. His output was small; his style and content nott adaptable to all stomachs. He willn remain minor, but he will remain minor in the same way Andrewa Marvell or Christopher Smart or Thomas Love Peacock is minor. 91 That is to say, there will alwaysr be readers very fond of him. They will buy his books. The giants ofL literature they will borrow from the nearest library. West will bes read and his readers will give his books to others to read. The giants will go back to the library after? their two week excursion into the world. Some giants may overstay their leave but this will not ber because they have readers but be--i cause they do not. NATHANAEL WEST wrote four novels. None were financiallya successful. Of the four, only Missr Lonelyhearts achieved anyu"criti- cal success" and this "success"~ was clouded. To one critic is was "savage . .. unhealthy ... deca- dent," to another-full of "vilenesst and vulgarity." Now, however, it seems time toI re-evaluate West. Editions of Misst Lonelyhearts and The Day of thel Locust in the New Directions andt New Classics series have had a steadily increasing sale. Copies of? a British edition of A Cool Million appeared in Ann- Arbor a few1 months ago and were swiftly sold. The recent Avon paperbacks oft Miss Lonelyhearts and The Day of1 the Locust quickly disappear from{ the book racks. West's novels have always hadt their admirers and not all of them1 have been college students or pro- fessional literary men. A local paratrooper veteran once offered to "steal a copy of Miss Lonely- hearts for anyone who wants one"' -the offer being made to a group of cab-driver friends.' It would seem that at least the demand is steady and permanent' and no longer entirely dependent on flurries of sales to small groups of literateurs. WEST was born in New York in 1906 and died in an automobile accident in El Centro, California in 1940. His wife was Eileen M- Kenney, the Eileen of Ruth Mc- Kenny's My Sister Eileen. West's own sister-married S. J. Perelman. Perelman and West had been classmates at Brown University and had written a play together. As a novelist, West was out of tune with his times. In both style and theme he was almost unique. He was a poetic novelist at a time when tough, flat Hemingway prose was fast becoming the stand- ard. West's novels show the in- fluence of Sherwood Anderson, and West himself undoubtedly in- fluenced Djuna Barnes. But in the early thirties West was the only American novelist making ex- tensive use of metaphor in prose. His style is sharp, frenzied, grotes- que, unlike the rambling semi- Dick Laing is known to Sun- day Magazine readers for his recent ailceson the old Union South Cafeteria and his "short history" of aimless . itch-hik- pastoral "poetry" of Thomas Wolfe. West sustains his meta- phoric pitch from first to last page-quite unlike Steinbeck, Dos Passos and Hemingway who offer the reader only short poetry-like interludes. WHEN Hemingway or Fitzgerald employ symbolism it is cause for critical comment - the very paucity of metaphor focusesrat- tention on it. West often employs more metaphor in a page or two than Fitzgerald does in a whole volume. As the Lovelorn Editor of Miss Lonelyhearts leaves work "the air smelt as though it had been artificially heated." He swallows mouthfulls of the heavy shade. The shadow of the lampost pierces him like a spear. The park needs a stiff drink. Flowers would spring up smelling of feet. A newspaper struggles in the air like a "kite with a broken spine." This flood of correct metaphoric perceptions about human city ex- istencepencourages the reader's assent to West's themes. His right- ness of perception leads to a faith in his rightness of conception. IN THESE conceptions of the meaning of existence West is again at variance with his fellow novelists of the early thirties. He was moral and religious at a time when they were moral and social. They were doctrinaire revolution- aries or advocates of emancipation through the proper use of sex; for West neither Marx nor Freud pro- vided an answer. The others tub- thumped for adjustment and im- provement; West asked only that man be righteous. He was an ab- solutist; they were generally com- promisers or promoters of worldly ideals. For West there was no half-way solution. His.heroes come to unfortunate ends not because of inadequacies in themselves or specific failings of the social order. It is necessary to note that the destruction of each of his heroes is not the result of their stupidities but rather is a product of their righteousness in conflict with a sullenly malign universe. In this West is a forerunner of J. D. Salinger. Innocence should not mistakenly be called stupidity. Salinger's children and child-like adults suffer by the very nature of the world in which they have been placed. WEST'S HEROES characteristi- cally disintigrate from contact with the world. Miss Lonelyhearts -comically and grotesquely a man-sees his own image in the flood of human suffering dumped on his desk each day by the mail- man. Miss Lonleyhearts conducts the lovelorn column of a large newspaper. He had hoped touse this job as. a springboard to a gossip column but he begins to read the letters carefully and sees that they are not merely comic, they are filled with desperate hu- man suffering. Shrike, the feature editor, taunts Miss Lonelyhearts for his "weak- ness." Betty, his girl, begs him to quit and go into advertising. Miss Lonelyhearts cannot quit. He tries to help all his unhappy humans. He sets out to love them and is destroyed by them. Desper- ately needing love they are still representatives of a world which requires that one carefully curb expressions of innocence and love. Miss Lonelyhearts opens his arms in love toward Peter Doyle the cripple. Doyle, his escape from the embrace cut off, shoots Miss Lone- lyhearts and4hey crash down the Many couples, hiowever, have nearly lostueach other in the clusters of kissing couples who1 congregate on the steps, landings, and balustrades. THE FORMAL FUNCTION DATE. There is no doubt that this is what the magazines refer to when they speak of "exciting days that young people spend in col- lege." It is all glamour. 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During the last number, when dangerous, it is undoubtedly better that way, for the people who invite you to bohemian dates are general- ly not only libertines, but exces- sively socialistic as well. These dates begin innocently enough with a guitar and ukelele party where everyone sings select- ed marching songs of the Guate- malan Revolution. Or else, there is the private-seminar ruse where, I you are supposed to discuss such important topics as "Symbolism in Swift and James Jones" or "A Pragmatic Approach to Economic Stability." The Bohemian date begins with a group. But soon, from hidden vaults in the basement of the cooperative house, or from window ledges of illegal apartments there is sure to appear a 93c bottle of Ch car I hai but cla ant wh abl ter res WONDERING? how to get to classes quickly how to enjoy the spring. SPORTY DATE claiming, "I 'didn't get a thing done. I'll have to stay up all night." 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