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T. Cerasulo, The Dream Life of Balso Snell and the Vocation of Nathanael West, Arizona Quarterly: A Journal of American Literature, Culture, and Theory, vol.62, issue.2, pp.59-75, 2006.
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M. Cowley, Exile's Return, 1934.

J. P. Eburne, Anti-Menckenism: Nathanael West, Robert M. Coates, and the Provisional Avant-Garde, MFS Modern Fiction Studies, vol.56, issue.3, pp.518-543, 2010.
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R. B. Gehman, Introduction The Day of the Locust, p.1950

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J. Herbst, Nathanael West, Kenyon Review, vol.23, pp.611-630, 1961.

F. Kermode, The Sense of an Ending, 1967.

R. E. Krauss, The Originality of the Avant-Garde and Other Modernist Myths, 1986.

A. J. Liebling, Shed a Tear for Mr. West, New York World Telegram, issue.24, p.11, 1931.

J. F. Light, Nathanael West, Balso Snell, and the Mundane Millstone, Modern Fiction Studies, vol.4, pp.319-328, 1958.

J. Martin and . West, The Art of His Life, 1970.

R. Reid, The Fiction of Nathanael West. No Redeemer, No Promised Land, 1967.

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B. Siegel, Critical Essays on Nathanael West, 1994.

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J. For and . Eburne, West implemented a new form of pessimism by means of discouraging unfunny jokes and " gruesome slapstick