The Day of the Locust

Here is the first Arabic translation, dear reader, of a famous and distinctive novel, presented to you by Afaaq Publishing and Distribution for the first time, it is the novel "Day of the Locust." The difference between the novel "Day of the Locust" and all other Hollywood novels is actually that the subject of its author, Nathaniel West, was not the stars, but the harafish who were crawling on the outskirts of the Hollywood capital. Although Hollywood relied on its ability to predict and satisfy the taste of the audience, the audiences in Hollywood itself never found a suitable subject for novelists, even for this exceptional novelist Nathaniel West, from New York. Among all the Hollywood novels, "Day of the Locust" remains the most sharp in tone, the most radiant in its characters and events, and the most astonishing in its emphasis and concern with the collective. The American novelist, Nathaniel West, who was not enthusiastic about the daily life in the United States of America, was born in 1903 and was expected to see more in life than others see. Specifically, he could see life in its rich and absurd details, even his absurd death itself in a car crash while he was thirty-seven years old, rushing to attend the funeral of his friend, the novelist Scott Fitzgerald, in 1904.