Alvin Lustig New Directions Classics #29 Nathanael West The Day Of The Locust

Description: Hardcover. 12mo. New Directions/Vail-Ballou Press, Inc, New York. 1950. 167 pgs. New Classics #29. DJ has shelf-wear (chipping present to the top edge of the DJ). Bound in green cloth boards with black titles present to the spine. Boards are lightly rubbed and worn. Previous owner's name present to front pastedown. Text is clean and free of marks, binding tight and solid. During his years in Hollywood West wrote The Day of the Locust, a study of the fragility of illusion. Set in Hollywood during the Depression, the narrator, Tod Hackett, comes to California in the hope of a career as a painter for movie backdrops but soon joins the disenchanted second-rate actors, technicians, laborers and other characters living on the fringes of the movie industry. Tod tries to seduce Faye Greener; she is seventeen. Her protector is an old man named Homer Simpson. Tod finds work on a film called prophetically “The Burning of Los Angeles,” and the dark comic tale ends in an apocalyptic mob riot outside a Hollywood premiere, as the system runs out of control. Alvin Lustig New Directions Classics #29 Nathanael West The Day Of The Locust Click images to enlarge Description Up For Sale Today is The Day of the Locust by Nathanael West introduction by Richard B. Gehman Hardcover. 12mo. New Directions/Vail-Ballou Press, Inc, New York. 1950. 167 pgs. New Classics #29. DJ has shelf-wear (chipping present to the top edge of the DJ). Bound in green cloth boards with black titles present to the spine. Boards are lightly rubbed and worn. Previous owner's name present to front pastedown. Text is clean and free of marks, binding tight and solid. During his years in Hollywood West wrote The Day of the Locust, a study of the fragility of illusion. Set in Hollywood during the Depression, the narrator, Tod Hackett, comes to California in the hope of a career as a painter for movie backdrops but soon joins the disenchanted second-rate actors, technicians, laborers and other characters living on the fringes of the movie industry. Tod tries to seduce Faye Greener; she is seventeen. Her protector is an old man named Homer Simpson. Tod finds work on a film called prophetically “The Burning of Los Angeles,” and the dark comic tale ends in an apocalyptic mob riot outside a Hollywood premiere, as the system runs out of control. FROM WIKIPEDIA: Alvin Lustig was an American book designer, graphic designer and typeface designer. Lustig has been honored by the American Institute of Graphic Arts and the Art Directors Club Hall of Fame for his significant contributions to American design. Alvin Lustig maintained a successful professional relationship with New Directions Publishing for almost a decade, producing some of his most iconic and innovative work for the independent publishing company. He designed more than seventy dust jackets for the New Classics literary series from 1945 until his death in 1955. His abstract designs incorporated a modern design sensibility with a groundbreaking approach to typeface design and the unconventional dust jacket became a hallmark of New Directions publications. His artwork was featured on the covers of classic works of modernist literature, including the works of James Joyce, Gertrude Stein, William Carlos Williams, and Ezra Pound. Several Tennessee Williams plays were published by New Directions during this period and Lustig's art was included on the first edition covers of these works, including A Streetcar Named Desire, Orpheus Descending, and Cat on a Hot Tin Roof. ABC of Reading is a book by Ezra Pound published in 1934. In it, Pound sets out an approach by which one may come to appreciate and understand literature (focusing primarily on poetry). Despite its title the text can be considered as a guide to writing poetry. The work begins with the "Parable of the sunfish" and contains several strikingly informative mantras: "Literature is language charged with meaning: Great literature is simply charged with meaning to the utmost degree" - to be achieved by three main ways: phanopoeia - throwing the object (fixed or moving) on to the visual imagination. melopoeia - inducing emotional correlations by sound and rhythm of the speech. logopoeia - inducing 1 & 2 by stimulating associations with other word/word groups. "Literature is news that stays news". "Music rots when it gets too far from the dance. Poetry atrophies when it gets too far from music." "I've never read half a page of Homer without finding melodic invention." "Without the foregoing minimum of poetry in other languages you simply will not know where English poetry comes." "From Chaucer you can learn whatever came over into the earliest English that one can read without a dictionary." "Artists are the antennae of the race." "Man can learn more about poetry by really knowing and examining a few of the best poems than by meandering about among a great many." "One of the pleasures of middle age is to find out that one was right, and that one was much righter than one knew at say seventeen or twenty-three." "The honest critic must be content to find a very little contemporary work worth serious attention; but he must be ready to recognize that little..." "There are three types of melopoeia, i.e. verse made to sing; to chant/intone; and to speak. The older one gets the more one believes in the first. One reads prose for the subject matter." OUR MISSION STATEMENT: Our goal is to provide the best books for the lowest prices. 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