Nathaniel West,
"Miss Lonely hearts" considered one of West's best stories.
"The Day of the Locus" is recognized as Nathaneal West's best known story. At the time, he wasn't a well known novellist. Just enough for him to pay the bills. When "The day of the Locus" is released, he began to sell a couple of copus and success in his life started to arise.
Along with this success he gets married to Eileen Mckenney. Unfortunately not far after that, they're both involved in a car accident and meet their death, only a couple of days after the play opened in NY. An unfortunate event.
A particular aspect about the story itself is the fact that it doesn't have a "story structure". A begining middle and end, that we expect to have almost every time we read a story now. Because we relate to stories and put our personal experiences into the stories we read, we expect them to be the way we experience life itself. Linear, and sequential, one event after the other, with a beginning and an end. When this doesn't happen, the reader notices and feels uncomfortable to some extent, because we're caught off guard.
We could say the book is more like a painting, where there is no story structure, but rather a canvas covered by elements that make up a story, with no beginning and no ending.
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