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The dark, raw, bloody, darkly humorous... side of the Hollywood "dream factory", all those rejected actors, ambitious parents and extras, red carpet enthusiasts, as well as the entire gallery of marginalized people are woven into this famous book. This is also the reason why it has been on many "millennial" best-of lists - Modern Library and Time magazine, among others, have included "The Day of the Locust" among the hundred best novels written in the English language in the twentieth century. Despite the seductive main character, the real (book) candy is the ambitious painter Hackett, resembling the American version of Kafka's Josef K., or Ulrich Robert Musil, or, if we are closer to us, Krležin's Filip Latinovicz. The next parallel can be connected with another of our "capitalists" Marinković and his Cyclops, and add Joyce's Ulysses - both titles just like West's. All of these parallels are interesting, and probably the most interesting is the similar devastating economic reality and the crisis of morality and true values ​​in the depression of the 1930s and this century's recession, which makes "The Locusts" very relevant today.