Nathanael West, born Nathan von Wallenstein Weinstein (October 17, 1903 – December 22, 1940), was an American author, screenwriter and satirist.
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“The convent, which belongs to the West as it does to the East, to antiquity as it does to the present time, to Buddhism and Muhammadanism as it does to Christianity, is one of the optical devices whereby man gains a glimpse of infinity.”
—Victor Hugo (1802–1885)