Herzog

Library Edition

by Saul Bellow

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 astonishing insight into the soul of the modern intellectual. Herzog, whose wife--his third--is unfaithful to him, is a version of Bellow himself, and his rival is reportedly based on a good friend of his who was having an affair with Bellow's own wife at the time. HERZOG won a National Book Award in 1964.

Editions of Herzog

ISBN 9780142437292	Binding/Format Paperback	Publisher Penguin Group USA	Date 2003	Price $5.00	Very Good
ISBN 9780670369133	Binding/Format Book	Publisher Viking Press	Date 1976	Price $14.95	Good
ISBN 9780670002009	Binding/Format Paperback	Publisher Penguin USA	Date 1967	Price $3.99	Good
ISBN 9780140072709	Binding/Format Paperback	Publisher Penguin USA	Date 1984	Price $1.00	Used - Good
ISBN 9780786103430	Binding/Format Audio Cassette	Publisher Blackstone Audio Inc	Date 1994	Price $81.65	New
ISBN 9788481097306	Binding/Format Hardcover	Publisher Galaxia Gutenberg	Date 2008	Price None Available
ISBN 9788497933322	Binding/Format Paperback	Publisher Debolsillo	Date 2009	Price None Available
ISBN 9780140189438	Binding/Format Paperback	Publisher Penguin Group USA	Date 1996	Price $3.22	Very Good
ISBN 9780786173044	Binding/Format MP3 CD	Publisher Blackstone Audio Inc	Date 2006	Price $37.07	NEW
ISBN 9780786162901	Binding/Format Compact Disc	Publisher Blackstone Audio Inc	Date 2006	Price $83.44	NEW
ISBN 9781441711892	Binding/Format Compact Disc	Publisher Blackstone Audio Inc	Date 2009	Price None Available
ISBN 9781441711908	Binding/Format MP3 CD	Publisher Blackstone Audio Inc	Date 2009	Price None Available
ISBN 9781441711861	Binding/Format Audio Cassette	Publisher Blackstone Audio Inc	Date 2009	Price None Available
ISBN 9781441711878	Binding/Format Compact Disc	Publisher Blackstone Audio Inc	Date 2009	Price None Available

Media Reviews

"Before and, I hope, after everything else has been said, HERZOG should be praised as a marvelously animated performance. It is a book that makes one greedy for the next page, the next character....That Herzog cannot accurately perceive the other figures in the novel and that we are closely confined to his sense of them, is true and in ways...a limitation. But not a crippling limitation, for it soon becomes clear that, while totally committed to Herzog's experience, Bellow is not nearly so committed to his estimate of that experience...He has become a master of something that is rarely discussed in criticism because it is hard to do more than point toward it: the art of timing, which concerns the massing, centering and disposition of the characters and creates a sense of delight in the sheer motion of the narrative."