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Seen To Appeal To Ours
By RICHARD LAING pastoral "poetry" of Thomas
1HE PERSON who reads one Wolfe. West sustains his meta-
T HEPERSN wh reas onphoric pitch from firstisto last
West novel will read them all. phge-pitc from st toclas
He may hesitate for a moment be- page-quite unlike Steinbeck, Dos
Passos and Hemingway who offer
forereaingthenexthowver Hethe reader only short poetry-like
knows that he is likely to be sub- nterles.
jecting himself to emotional ex-
haustion. Reading a West novel is HEN Hemingway or Fitzgerald
like a furious sprint in which one's employ symbolism it is, cause
staying power is never taxed but for critical comment -the very
in which one is gasping at the end. cit omet - the vtr
Dissemination of information paucity of metaphor focuses' at -
about West will not result in a tention on it. West often employs
bWest ovementisotut nwamore metaphor in a page or two
s ma1; his style and content not than Fitzgerald does in a whole
adaptable to all stomachs. He will volume. As the Lovelorn Editor of
dremain minor, but he will remain Miss Lonelyhearts leaves work "the
rmininhbutaewyAnreawn air smelt as though it had been
Mnell or Ch stophe wSmandrew artificially heated." He swallows
Tho ms to saytcock is minor.sThe shadow of the lampost pierces
be readers very fond of him. TheyhifikFeawuTdesprkng
'will buy his books. The giants of a stiff drink. Flowers would spring
literature they will borrow from up smelling of feet. A newspaper
the nearest library. West will be struggles in the air'like a "kite
read and his readers will give his with a broken spine."
books to others to read. The giants This flood of correct metaphoric
will go back to the library after perceptions about human city ex-
their two week excursion into the istence encourages the reader's
world. Some giants may overstay assent to West's themes. His right-
their leave but this will not be ness of perception leads to a faith
because they have readers but be- in his rightness of conception.
cause they do not.
N THESE conceptions of the
NATHANAEL WEST wrote four meaning of existence West is
novels. None were financially again at variance with his fellow
successful. Of the four, only Miss novelists of the early thirties. He
Lonelyhearts achieved any "criti- was moral and religious at a time
cal success" and this "success" when they were moral and social,
was clouded. To one critic is was They were doctrinaire revolution-
"savage . . . unhealthy . . . deca- aries or advocates of emancipation
dent," to another-full of "vileness through the proper use of sex; for
and vulgarity." West neither Marx nor Freud pro-
Now, however, it seems time to vided an answer. The others tub-
re-evaluate West. Editions of Miss thumped for adjustment and im-
Lonelyhearts and The Day of the provement; West asked only that
Locust in the New Directions and man be righteous. He was an ab-
New Classics series have had a solutist; they were generally com-
steadily increasing sale. Copies of promisers or promoters of worldly
a British edition of A Cool Million ideals. For West there was no
appeared in Ann Arbor a few half-way solution.
montss ago and were swiftly sold. His heroes come to unfortunate
The recent Avon paperbacks of ends not because of inadequacies
Miss Lonelyhearts and The Day ot in themselves or specific failings
the Locust quickly disappear from of the social order. It is necessary
the book racks. to note that the destruction of each
West's novels have always had of his heroes is not the result of
their admirers and not all of them their stupidities but rather is a
have been college students or pro- product of their righteousness in
fessional literary men. A local conflict with a sullenly malign
paratrooper veteran once offered universe.
to "steal a copy of Miss Lonely- In this West is a forerunner of
hearts for anyone who wants one" J. D. Salinger. Innocence should
-the offer being made to a group not mistakenly be called stupidity.
of cab-driver friends. Salinger's children and child-like
It would seem that at least the adults suffer by the very nature
demand is steady and permanent of the world in which they have
and no longer entirely dependent been placed.
on flurries of sales to small groups
of literateurs. WEST'S HEROES characteristi-

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WEST was born in New York in
1906 and died in an automobile
accident in El Centro, California
in 1940. His wife was Eileen Mc-
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 articles on the old Union
South Cafeteria and his "short
history" of aimless sitch-hik-
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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 to use
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 and they crash down the
stairs together.
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