The Day of the Locust | Related Titles
The Dream Life of Balso Snell (1931) is a surrealist pastiche of pieces West wrote as an apprentice. Balso enters the bowels of the Trojan horse and episodically discovers within it a variety of pieces loosely connected by a quest which ends with a wet dream. The most striking episodes concern Samuel Perkins, who understands the world through the art of smell, and Maloney the Areopagite, who attempts to crucify himself with thumbtacks in memory of St. Puce, a flea who lived in Christ's armpit. Many pieces are radically imaginative although the tone is somewhat hysterical and...
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