"Day of the Locust" - Locust Day

Japanese: 《イナゴの日》 - いなごのひ
"Day of the Locust" - Locust Day

…After graduating from Brown University (1924), he spent two years in Paris, where he began writing his first novel, The Dream Life of Barthaud Snell (1931), under the influence of Surrealism. He subsequently published The Lonely Girl (1933), The Cool Million (1934), and The Day of the Locust (1939), but died in a car accident in 1940. He is a representative writer of the 1930s, a period that was not necessarily rich in literature, but he was more highly regarded after his death than during his lifetime. …

*Some of the terminology that refers to "Day of the Locust" is listed below.

Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information

Japanese:

…ブラウン大学卒業(1924)後,2年間パリにいて処女作《バルソー・スネルの夢の生活》(1931)をシュルレアリスムの影響下に執筆しはじめた。以後《孤独な娘》(1933),《クール・ミリオン》(1934),《イナゴの日》(1939)を発表したが,1940年に自動車事故で死去した。必ずしも文学的に豊かな収穫があったとは言えない1930年代を代表する作家であるが,生前よりも死後に評価が高まった。…

※「《イナゴの日》」について言及している用語解説の一部を掲載しています。

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