El Diciembre Del Decano / Dean's December

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 himself less and less with each new revelation. Written with the intellectual and psychological depth and insight that have become Bellow's trademarks, THE DEAN'S DECEMBER--his first novel after being awarded the Nobel Prize in 1976--is a moving portrait of a man's effort to take his own measure. This is a Spanish-language version of the text.