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A Cool Million - or, The Dismantling of Lemuel Pitkin | Nathanael West
A Cool Million - or, The Dismantling of Lemuel Pitkin | Nathanael West

A Cool Million - or, The Dismantling of Lemuel Pitkin

Publié par Books on Demand, le 03 mai 2021

138 pages

Résumé

A Cool Million presents the dismantling of Lemuel Pitkin, piece by piece. As a satire of the Horatio Alger myth of success, the novel is evocative of Voltaire's Candide, which satirized the philosophical optimism of Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz and Alexander Pope. Pitkin is a typical Schlemiel, stumbling from one situation to the next; he gets robbed, cheated, unjustly arrested, frequently beaten and exploited.

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