The Study Of Absurd Writing In Nathanael West’s Novelists And Novels

Although Nathanael West,an American writer who dies young just wrote and pressed two novelists The Dream Life of Balso Snell(1931),Miss Lonelyhearts(1933)and two novels A Cool Million(1934),The Day of the Locust(1939),the study of his novels at home and aboard has pluralist and great achievements.But there is still some space to research about Nathanael West’s four novels.First,scholars seldom pay attention to The Dream Life of Balso Snell and the relation between this novel and other Nathanael West’s novels.More importantly,we haven’t a comprehensive and specialized research about “absurd” in his four novels.For these reasons,the paper carries out study in the core substance of “absurd” in above-mentioned four novels.The study includes the following sections:The introduction is the first part.Its main content includes the significance of the study of Nathanael West’s four novels,the status of the study and the reason why we choose “absurd” to be the centre topic.The Major research task in chapter one is how The Dream Life of Balso Snell expresses the absurdity of cultural authority.This novel uses parody by joining the styles of some masterpieces and deconstruction content.The real purpose of this is to take the crown signifying authority off literary canon.In the second part,this paper approaches the absurdity of religious idols in Miss Lonelyhearts.For setting its theme in the transcendental religion,the writer rewrites religious discourse mode to mean changed triangular desire.And he also uses strong rational rhetoric express anxiety for irrationality and uses “dream” of religious literary to negate religious idols.The third part does study on A Cool Million and The Day of the Locust to explore the how secular value is absurd.Because the world view of two novels is a secular society,the writer chooses some different narrative strategies so as to construct an objective secular world.In this secular world of these novels,the absurdity of secular value has been shown by Greeks tragic style and filmic style.The conclusion summarizes how Nathanael West’s absurd writing deals with the concept and the form of absurdity in four novels.On the basis,we comment the particular value of Nathanael West’s absurd writing.