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Nathanael West was just thirty seven when he died in 1940, but his representations of the sometimes witty, sometimes scary facets of the National landscape rival those of William Faulkner and Flannery O'Connor. An Awesome Million, created in 1934, is just a satiric Horatio Alger tale occur the middle of the Despair. The Dream Life of Balso Snell (1931) was described by one critic as "a fantasy about some instead scatological activities of the hero within the innards of the Trojan horse."