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Camouflage of Fragmentation and Alienation in Nathanael West’s A Cool Million


P. Ranjithkumar | Dr. R. Palanivel

https://doi.org/10.31142/ijtsrd9613



P. Ranjithkumar | Dr. R. Palanivel "Camouflage of Fragmentation and Alienation in Nathanael West’s A Cool Million" Published in International Journal of Trend in Scientific Research and Development (ijtsrd), ISSN: 2456-6470, Volume-2 | Issue-2, February 2018, pp.1171-1175, URL: https://www.ijtsrd.com/papers/ijtsrd9613.pdf

This paper examines West’s satire and parody of the various schools of philosophic and artistic concepts that precede and underpin the Modem movement. By revealing the absurdity of Western thought in the early twentieth century, West was able to show the fragmentation and alienate he perceived in both society and the self. The revelation of this detritus becomes a deconstructive device that simultaneously demonstrates ways of creating meaning in the twentieth century, and that condemns any philosophy based on escape from suffering. The novel A Cool Million, variously attack artistic or political formulae that privilege escape from culture’s degradation, or that offer erroneous promises of subjective or cultural wholeness. West’s life and art, then, exhibits the usefulness of the camouflage in the grim battle for the formation of artistic and political subjectivity. Nathanael West’s novel stands as significant reminders of the worry that plagued America and the reality almost a century back. There may be undoubtedly a greater amount that can, and should, a chance to be said around West as much worth of effort. Routes for considering regarding culture, politics, history, art, and the puzzling state of constantly human need aid all miserably joined Previously, as much dream. Such worries talk potently and straightforwardly to those birthplaces of the exhibit. Fragmentation and alienation are themes that carry over into West’s novel, A Cool Million. West’s novel, A Cool Million, would attack, exposing the grinding greed underlying the capitalist cliches of the American Dream. Because of this satire, the novel is important not only in what it exposes but also because it marks the turn in West’s work to a much more specifically American literature. Fragmentation and alienation are of the modern world having deeply affected not only the realms of politics and rhetoric, but also the everyday landscape of common objects. There would be nothing but the blank suffering of alienated and fragmented beings in a shattered world.

Fragmentation, alienation, culture's degradation


IJTSRD9613
Volume-2 | Issue-2, February 2018
1171-1175
IJTSRD | www.ijtsrd.com | E-ISSN 2456-6470
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