Long live ficus!

"Long live ficus!" (1936)-a bitter, ironic novel, in many ways an autobiographical romance.

The main character is Gordon Comstrack, an unrecognized poet, a lunatic writer, forced to serve in an advertising agency to earn a living. He has a real talent for the composition of the slogans, but his work inspires him with disgust, seems to be a caricature of literary work. He despises the material values ​​and vulgarity of the ordinary way of life, the symbol of which becomes ficus on the window. In all his failures, he blames the money, but proud poverty only leads it into the depths of depression...

Komstok needs to understand that in addition to high art there are simple joys, and there is nothing shameful in the effort to earn money. What will save him?