The Dream Life of Balso Snell

by Nathanael West

Book Overview

"West is still a satirist with few peers and no betters, and a writer of bleak, haunting power." - Kirkus Reviews. In this 1931 Dada-inspired work, the first novel of the author of Miss Lonelyhearts and The Day of the Locust, the eponymous antihero stumbles across the Trojan Horse and climbs inside, embarking upon a dream within a dream. His journey through a mental jungle blends grandiose literary and religious allusions with erotic and scatological...