In Saul Bellow's comic fable, Eugene Henderson, a discontented 55-year-old American millionaire, decides that money and all that it can buy is not enough. He travels to Africa, lives with an African tribe, and becomes a god to the people there when he convinces them he is able to make rain. Finally, knowing that his real gifts are as a healer, ...
HERZOG, one of Saul Bellow's most celebrated novels, portrays (via the hero's sad, manic, ironic letters) the slow decline of Moses Herzog, a failed writer, teacher, husband, and father, as he charges through life unable to face the mistakes that have crippled him and wounded those around him. Introspective, witty, and sharp, the novel provides an ...
In Saul Bellow's title novella, Tommy Wilhelm, at 42, is in the midst of what seems to be a serious decline. He is separated from his wife and family, estranged from his father, unemployed, and broke. Over the course of one day, Tommy reviews the shape of his past and attempts to plot the course of his future--and has a valuable moment of insight ...
In Saul Bellow's 1970 more-bitter-than-sweet novel about alienation and moral decay, Artur Sammler, a 70-year-old survivor of Auschwitz, spends his days quietly and pointlessly in New York. An intellectual and academic, he lectures occasionally at Columbia University but spends most of his time drifting about the city, trying to make sense of an ...
A chronicle of success and failure, this work is Bellow's tale of the writer's life in America. When Humboldt dies a failure in a seedy New York hotel, Charlie Citrine coping with the tribulations of his own success, begins to realize the significance of his own life.
In Saul Bellow's exuberantly autobiographical novel, the larger-than-life Augie March begins as a poor Chicago boy growing up during the Great Depression. Drifting from job to job, he falls in love with Thea, an eagle trainer, and develops schemes--each more grandiose and unrealistic than the last--for making money and becoming famous. THE ...
In Saul Bellow's memoir-like and highly autobiographical novel, Abe Ravelstein is a well-known and highly respected professor of political philosophy--a character based on Bellow's good friend, the late Allan Bloom of the University of Chicago. Before Ravelstein dies from AIDS, he asks his friend Chick--a Bellowish novelist--to write his biography ...
In Saul Bellow's novel of academic life, Albert Corde, the middle-aged dean of an American college, is on sabbatical in Eastern Europe with his wife, who is visiting her dying mother. In a simple attempt to sort through the events of his own life, he becomes embroiled in diplomatic embarrassments and criminal cases, and finds that he understands ...
In Saul Bellow's exuberantly autobiographical novel, the larger-than-life Augie March begins as a poor Chicago boy growing up during the Great Depression. Drifting from job to job, he falls in love with Thea, an eagle trainer, and develops schemes--each more grandiose and unrealistic than the last--for making money and becoming famous. THE ...
In this collection of essays and interviews, Ellison writes of literature and folklore, jazz and black culture, and the nature and quality of lives that black Americans lead. This volume includes the critically acclaimed works Shadow and Act (1964) and Going to the Territory (1986).
Bellow's rare talent has earned critical accolades, including the Nobel Prize. Now, in a collector's edition celebrating the 50th anniversary of the classic "The Adventures of Augie March," readers will rediscover the novels that laid the foundation for Bellow's towering career.
This is the story of Kenneth, who leaves his native Paris for the USA. He also came to be near his uncle, the botanist Benn Crader. But Benn will not stay put. Indian forests, Chinese mountains, Brazilian jungles, the Antartic - he admits that his restlessness has an erotic cause.
This collection of Saul Bellow's stories, which also includes two novellas (A THEFT and THE BELLAROSA CONNECTION), establishes him as a fine writer of short fiction as well as of the novels for which he is more celebrated. The volume includes two introductions, one by his wife, Janis Freedman (who edited the collection), and one by the critic ...
In this first major work in 10 years from Nobel Prize-winning novelist Saul Bellow, Harry Trellman, the narrator, is an elderly Chicagoan who becomes the uneasy friend of Sigmund Adletsky, an even older millionaire. Adletsky shows Trellman how he must pick up his life with Amy Wustrin, a high school sweetheart he has never forgotten. As the story ...
Saul Bellow's first published novel portrays the thoughts and discomforts of Joseph, a young man in Chicago who quits his job in expectation of being drafted into the army during World War II. A series of bureaucratic snafus holds up his induction, however, and he finds himself with nothing to do for nearly a year. DANGLING MAN, the journal of ...
An editor named Asa Leventhal is left alone in New York during a heat wave while his wife is away. He is accosted by a menacing and anti-Semitic man named Kirby Allbee, who angrily accuses him of ruining his life. Although he barely knows the man, Leventhal is haunted by him and comes to believe that Allbee must be telling the truth. In this ...
This is the definitive collection of short stories by Saul Bellow. Abundant, precise, various, rich and exuberant, the stories display the stylistic and emotional brilliance which characterises this master of prose. Some stories recount the events of a single day, some are contained in a wider frame; each story is a characteristic combination of ...
A powerful critique, by a distinguished political philosopher, of the intellectual and moral confusions of our age, showing how American democracy has unwittingly played host to vulgarized Continental ideas of nihilism and despair, or relativism disguised as tolerance.
In these short fictions (1984) from Nobel Prize-winning American writer Saul Bellow, ordinary people--except for the fact that they are often intellectuals--struggle to get along in a world of appearances, and to find the truth under the mask. The title story is about a tactless character, Dr. Shawmutt, who has little control over what he says, no ...
A novella by the Nobel Prize-winning American novelist whose other novels include "The Adventures of Augie March" and "Herzog". The book is an exploration of the meaning of memory and the central character is an immigrant, rescued from Nazi-occupied Europe by an American Broadway producer.
Bellow went with his third wife to Israel in 1975, interviewing politicians and people on the street in an attempt to understand the struggle between the Arabs and the Jews, but in the end he finds it overwhelming.
This volume culls work from the pages of three literary journals collaboratively edited by Saul Bellow and Keith Botsford--the Noble Savage, Bostonia, and News From The Republic of Letters. Stories, essays, and poetry are included.
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