Books by Saul Bellow
Born: 07/10/1915; Died: 04/05/2005Saul Bellow Biography & Notes
Saul Bellow (born June 10, 1915), acclaimed North American-Jewish writer, won the Nobel prize for literature in 1976 and is best known for writing novels which investigate isolation, spiritual dissociation and the possibilities of human awakening. While on a Guggenheim fellowship in Paris, he wrote most of his best-known novel, The Adventures of Augie March.
After his parents emigrated from St. Petersburg, he was born in Lachine, Quebec and then schooled in the United States. Bellow has taught at the University of Minnesota, New York University, Princeton, the University of Chicago and Boston University. He currently (March, 2004) is University Professor and Professor of English at Boston University.
Bellow received his undergraduate degree not in English, but in Anthropology at the University of Chicago. It has been suggested that the study of Anthropology has had an interesting influence on his literary style.
Although not as widely acclaimed as some of his novels, Bellow's later works include the powerful and well-crafted collection of short stories entitled 'Him with His Foot in His Mouth'. Bellow's story lines are led by the personal quests and crises of his protagonists rather than by action. Our introduction to a Bellow protagonist is often at a point of deep crisis in the character's life. Whether romantic, financial or sparked by other causes, the turmoil experienced by a typical Bellow protagonist leads to deep existential questioning. Bellow artfully manages to reference the teachings of great philosophers and thinkers within many of his novels, usually without damaging their readability or disrupting story flow. One remarkable example of this technique is seen within Mr. Sammler's Planet, Bellow's novel about a curmudgeonly Holocaust survivor living in New York City amid the cultural revolution of the 1960s.
After his parents emigrated from St. Petersburg, he was born in Lachine, Quebec and then schooled in the United States. Bellow has taught at the University of Minnesota, New York University, Princeton, the University of Chicago and Boston University. He currently (March, 2004) is University Professor and Professor of English at Boston University.
Bellow received his undergraduate degree not in English, but in Anthropology at the University of Chicago. It has been suggested that the study of Anthropology has had an interesting influence on his literary style.
Although not as widely acclaimed as some of his novels, Bellow's later works include the powerful and well-crafted collection of short stories entitled 'Him with His Foot in His Mouth'. Bellow's story lines are led by the personal quests and crises of his protagonists rather than by action. Our introduction to a Bellow protagonist is often at a point of deep crisis in the character's life. Whether romantic, financial or sparked by other causes, the turmoil experienced by a typical Bellow protagonist leads to deep existential questioning. Bellow artfully manages to reference the teachings of great philosophers and thinkers within many of his novels, usually without damaging their readability or disrupting story flow. One remarkable example of this technique is seen within Mr. Sammler's Planet, Bellow's novel about a curmudgeonly Holocaust survivor living in New York City amid the cultural revolution of the 1960s.
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The Actual by Saul Bellow ( 2009)
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 reaches its intensely poignant climax, we find Trellman in a cemetery in the middle of a Chicago snowstorm, helping Amy to re-bury her ex-husband, and finding a little self-redemption in the bargain. THE ACTUAL (1997), at 112 pages, is actually a novella. And, as in so many of Bellow's later novels, it includes an intense awareness of the approach of death.
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The Adventures of Augie March by Saul Bellow ( 1999)
Augie's nonconformity leads him into an eventful, humorous, and sometimes earthy way of life.
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Las Aventuras de Augie March/ The Adventures of Augie March by Saul Bellow ( 2006) |
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The Bellarosa Connection by Saul Bellow ( 1989)
Saul Bellow's very short novella is about a filthy-rich man known as "Mr. Mnemosyne," a memory specialist who is the head of a mnemonics group--and the novel's narrator. As he dredges up from his memory the story of Harry Fonstein, a Jewish refugee who escaped the Nazis, the narrator--an American-born Jew--surveys his own life as well, trying to understand what made him who he is. In the process he must come to terms with the guilt he feels for his fabulous success--as opposed to the monumental suffering of the generation that came before him.
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Bellow A Literary Life by Saul Bellow ( 2005) |
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Carpe Diem by Saul Bellow ( 2006) |
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Carpe Diem/ Seize The Day by Saul Bellow ( 2009) |
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Collected Stories by ( 2002)
Filled with wisdom, wit, and insight, a groundbreaking collection of short works, selected by the author, traces his illustrious literary career and includes such celebrated stories as "Leaving the Yellow House", "What Kind of Day Did You Have?," and the novella The Bellarosa Connection. Reprint.
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Conversations With Saul Bellow by Saul Bellow, Gloria L. Cronin, Ben Siegel ( 1994) |
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Dangling Man by Saul Bellow ( 2006)
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 Joseph's fresh and empty days, is full of insights into nearly every aspect of his world as he waits for the day when it all will end. DANGLING MAN appeared in 1944, when Bellow was still in his 20s.
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The Dean's December by Saul Bellow ( 1998)
Albert Corde, dean of a Chicago college, is unprepared for the violent response to his expose of city corruption. Accused of betraying his city, as well as being a racist, he journeys to Bucharest, where his mother-in-law lies dying, only to find corruption rife in the Communist capital. Switching back and forth between the two cities, The Dean's December represents Bellow's "most spirited resistance to the forces of our time" (Malcolm Bradbury).
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El Diciembre Del Decano by Saul Bellow ( 1996)
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.
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Great Jewish Short Stories by ( 1991)
Saul Bellow edited this collection of stories by Jewish writers about Jewish characters.
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Henderson the Rain King by Saul Bellow ( 2009)
In 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 when he convinces them he is able to make rain. Finally, knowing that his real gifts are as a healer, Henderson returns to the states to drastically change his life. Most of Bellow's novels are autobiographical, reaching into his own life and circle for plot and character, and in HENDERSON, the main character is reportedly based on a close friend--but Bellow has also claimed that, of all his creations, Henderson is the one most like himself.
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Henderson the Rain King by Saul Bellow ( 2009)
In 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 when he convinces them he is able to make rain. Finally, knowing that his real gifts are as a healer, Henderson returns to the states to drastically change his life. Most of Bellow's novels are autobiographical, reaching into his own life and circle for plot and character, and in HENDERSON, the main character is reportedly based on a close friend--but Bellow has also claimed that, of all his creations, Henderson is the one most like himself.
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Henderson the Rain King Library Edition by Saul Bellow ( 2009)
In 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 when he convinces them he is able to make rain. Finally, knowing that his real gifts are as a healer, Henderson returns to the states to drastically change his life. Most of Bellow's novels are autobiographical, reaching into his own life and circle for plot and character, and in HENDERSON, the main character is reportedly based on a close friend--but Bellow has also claimed that, of all his creations, Henderson is the one most like himself.
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Henderson the Rain King Library Edition by Saul Bellow ( 2009)
In 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 when he convinces them he is able to make rain. Finally, knowing that his real gifts are as a healer, Henderson returns to the states to drastically change his life. Most of Bellow's novels are autobiographical, reaching into his own life and circle for plot and character, and in HENDERSON, the main character is reportedly based on a close friend--but Bellow has also claimed that, of all his creations, Henderson is the one most like himself.
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Henderson the Rain King by Saul Bellow ( 1996)
Bellow's glorious, spirited story of an eccentric American millionaire who finds a home of sorts in deepest Africa.
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Henderson the Rain King by Saul Bellow ( 2010)
In 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 when he convinces them he is able to make rain. Finally, knowing that his real gifts are as a healer, Henderson returns to the states to drastically change his life. Most of Bellow's novels are autobiographical, reaching into his own life and circle for plot and character, and in HENDERSON, the main character is reportedly based on a close friend--but Bellow has also claimed that, of all his creations, Henderson is the one most like himself.
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Herzog Library Edition by Saul Bellow ( 2003)
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.
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Herzog Text and Criticism by Saul Bellow ( 1976)
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.
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Herzog/Cassette/Swc 1584 by Saul Bellow ( 1984)
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.
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Him With His Foot in His Mouth And Other Stories by Saul Bellow ( 1998)
This dazzling collection of shorter fiction describes a series of self-awakenings -- a suburban divorcee deciding among lovers, a celebrity drawn into his cousin's life of crime, a father remembering bygone Chicago, an artist, and an academic awaiting extradition for some unnamed offense.
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Him With His Foot in His Mouth and Other Stories by Saul Bellow ( 1984)
Stories by the Nobel Prize-winning novelist deal with a divorced woman and her lovers, a bankrupt musicologist, an eccentric young man, a boy and his father, and family relationships.
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Him with His Foot in His Mouth and Other Stories/ Saul Bellow by Saul Bellow ( 1984)
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 matter how offensive--his "handicap" is actually about stripping away deceit and confusion and getting down to life's essentials. Other stories include "Cousins," "A Silver Dish," and "Zetland: By a Character Witness."
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El Hombre En Suspenso/ Dangling Man by Saul Bellow ( 2006) |
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Humboldt's Gift by Saul Bellow ( 2008)
In Saul Bellow's tragicomic HUMBOLDT'S GIFT (1975), the main character, Charlie Citrine, is a successful writer who is tortured by a feeling of emptiness and by his troubling memories. Through his friend (and sometime mentor), the poet Von Humboldt Fleischer, Citrine learns the importance of the spiritual; and, through the unlikely figure of a gangster named Cantabile, Charlie is reawakened to his responsibilities. The question he grapples with is "how to be a man" in the materialist and antihuman society in which he lives--and then how to find the courage to deal with the answer to that question. The character of Humboldt is heavily based on Delmore Schwartz, who was Bellow's friend. HUMBOLDT'S GIFT was one of Bellow's most successful books, and won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.
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Iarna Decanului by Saul Bellow ( 1992) |
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It All Adds Up From the Dim Past to the Uncertain Future by Saul Bellow ( 1995)
Beginning with a tribute to Mozart, this nonfiction collection includes Bellow's 1976 Nobel Prize lecture; remembrances of friends, including John Cheever and Allan Bloom; ruminations on his beloved Chicago; and an essay on the state of the novel in our time.
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It All Adds Up From the Dim Past to the Uncertain Future A Nonfiction Collection by Saul Bellow ( 1994)
A collection of nonfiction pieces that is a journey through forty years in literary America features articles, essays, travel writing, and an "Autobiography of Ideas."
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Jerusalen by Saul Bellow ( 2004) |
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Jerusalen, ida y vuelta/ To Jerusalem And Back by Saul Bellow ( 2009) |
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Jewish Stories from the Old World to the New by Philip Roth, I.L. Peretz, E.L. Doctorow, Saul Bellow, Sholem Aleichem, Isaac Beshavis ( 1998)
This collection of stories about Jews in Europe and in America includes work by Philip Roth, Isaac Bashevis Singer, E. L. Doctorow, and Saul Bellow.
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La Verdadera/ the Truth by Saul Bellow ( 2006) |
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La Victima by Saul Bellow ( 2004) |
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Legado De Humboldt Premio Nobel 1976 by Saul Bellow ( 1996)
In Saul Bellow's tragicomic HUMBOLDT'S GIFT (1975), the main character, Charlie Citrine, is a successful writer who is tortured by a feeling of emptiness and by his troubling memories. Through his friend (and sometime mentor), the poet Von Humboldt Fleischer, Citrine learns the importance of the spiritual; and, through the unlikely figure of a gangster named Cantabile, Charlie is reawakened to his responsibilities. The question he grapples with is "how to be a man" in the materialist and antihuman society in which he lives--and then how to find the courage to deal with the answer to that question. The character of Humboldt is heavily based on Delmore Schwartz, who was Bellow's friend. HUMBOLDT'S GIFT was one of Bellow's most successful books, and won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. This is a Spanish-language version of the text.
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More Die of Heartbreak by Saul Bellow ( 1997)
Kenneth Trachtenberg, narrator of Nobel Prize-winner Saul Bellows tenth novel, is a witty, eccentric Russian-literature nut who leaves his native Paris to be near his famous American uncle, Benn Crader. Uncle Benn is a world-class genius in botany but a total duffer when it comes to women. Now his erotic escapades and disastrous marriage are about to lead him and Kenneth into a wonderful romp through America's mind-body dilemma...and into a Bellovian masterpiece of great wisdom and good fun.
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Mosby's Memoirs And Other Stories by Saul Bellow ( 1969)
This 1968 volume of six short stories by Saul Bellow includes two of his best--"Mosby's Memoirs" and "The Old System"--as well as four early stories that were originally included with his short novel SEIZE THE DAY upon its original publication: "Looking for Mr. Green," "The Gonzaga Manuscripts," "A Father-to-Be," and "Leaving the Yellow House."
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Mosby's Memoirs and Other Stories by Saul Bellow ( 1996)
This 1968 volume of six short stories by Saul Bellow includes two of his best--"Mosby's Memoirs" and "The Old System"--as well as four early stories that were originally included with his short novel SEIZE THE DAY upon its original publication: "Looking for Mr. Green," "The Gonzaga Manuscripts," "A Father-to-Be," and "Leaving the Yellow House."
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Mr. Sammler's Planet by Saul Bellow, Wolfram Kandinsky ( 1993)
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 utterly foreign world--a world he despises and despairs of. On the eve of the moon landing in 1969, Sammler can envision the possibility of a new world but is unable to ascertain if it will be a better one--or the end of civilization as we know it....
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Mr. Sammler's Planet by Saul Bellow ( 2004)
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 utterly foreign world--a world he despises and despairs of. On the eve of the moon landing in 1969, Sammler can envision the possibility of a new world but is unable to ascertain if it will be a better one--or the end of civilization as we know it....
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Mueren Mas Por Desamor/ They Die More Out of Love by Saul Bellow ( 2007) |
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El Planeta De Mr. Sammler / Mr Sammler's Planet by Saul Bellow ( 2005) |
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Portable Saul Bellow by Saul Bellow ( 1977)
Bellow's concern with the spiritual restrictions of the human environment is revealed in this representative selection of his best works.
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Ravelstein by Saul Bellow ( 2001)
Encouraged by his friend, Chick, to write down his ideas about humankind, university professor Abe Ravelstein receives unexpected acclaim and bounty and invites Chick to join in his success, a situation that sparks a philosophical journey for both. Reprint.
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Recovery by John Berryman ( 2002)
Dr. Alan Severance wakes up one morning confined to a familiar hospital with no recollection of his arrival. Thus starts Recovery, Berryman's semi-autobiographical tale of "the disease called ‘alcoholism.'" This time, determined to free himself from his disease, Dr. Severance plunges into a rigorous plan for recovery. Following the clinic's advice he confesses his humiliations, defeats, and delusions in an attempt to purge himself and achieve normality. The novel is elevated above the ordinary by Berryman's sharp wit and penetrating intelligence. An alcoholic and critically acclaimed Pulitzer prize-winning poet, Berryman jumped to his death off the Washington Avenue Bridge in 1972 in Minneapolis, abandoning his own attempts to overcome alcoholism as well as the yet unfinished Recovery. The resulting novel is a powerful portrayal of Severance's eternally indefinite attempts to free himself from the grip of addiction. "What he needed for his art had been supplied by his own person, by his mind, his wit."-Saul Bellow "Recovery is a brilliantly written, masterful portrayal of man's battle with himself for survival."-Chicago Sun-Times "What distinguishes Recovery from many fine and powerful fictions about alcoholism are the steps it takes into allegory and art."-Los Angeles Times
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Saul Bellow Novels 1944-1953 Dangling Man/the Victim/the Adventures of Augie March by Saul Bellow ( 2003)
A collector's edition celebrates the fiftieth anniversary of The Adventures of Augie March and reflects the mid-twentieth-century's psychological turmoil and transition from more inhibited times, in a volume that also include The Victim and Dangling Man.
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Saul Bellow Novels, 1956-1964 by Saul Bellow ( 2007) |
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Seize the Day by Saul Bellow ( 2003)
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 when he aimlessly drifts into the funeral of a man he doesn't know. SEIZE THE DAY is a bleak, compassionate tale, widely considered one of Bellow's best novels. Accompanying it are three short stories and a one-act play.
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Seize the Day by Saul Bellow ( 2003)
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 when he aimlessly drifts into the funeral of a man he doesn't know. SEIZE THE DAY is a bleak, compassionate tale, widely considered one of Bellow's best novels. Accompanying it are three short stories and a one-act play.
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Seize the Day, With Three Short Stories and a One-Act Play. by Saul Bellow ( 1984)
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 when he aimlessly drifts into the funeral of a man he doesn't know. SEIZE THE DAY is a bleak, compassionate tale, widely considered one of Bellow's best novels. Accompanying it are three short stories and a one-act play.
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Something to Remember Me by Three Tales by Saul Bellow ( 1991)
Brings together three of Bellow's works of short fiction--"A theft," "The Bellarosa Connection," and "Something to Remember Me By."
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Son mas los que mueren de desamor/ More Die of Heartbreak by Saul Bellow ( 2006) |
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Summations by Saul Bellow ( 1987) |
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Technology and the Frontiers of Knowledge by Saul Bellow ( 1975) |
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Theft A Novella by Saul Bellow ( 1989)
Bellow's brief novella tells the story of a many-times-married socialite named Clara who pines for her first love and cherishes the emerald ring he gave her. When it is stolen, she seems to lose more than a piece of jewelry--she loses the source of whatever strength she has.
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To Jerusalem and Back A Personal Account by Saul Bellow ( 1998)
In this "impassioned and thoughtful book" (The New York Times), Bellow records the opinions, passions, and dreams of Israelis of varying viewpoints -- Yitzhak Rabin, Amos Oz, the editor of the largest Arab-language newspaper in Israel, a kibbutznik escaped from the Warsaw Ghetto -- and adds his own thoughts on being Jewish in the twentieth century.
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To Jerusalem and Back by Saul Bellow ( 2010) |
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Todo Cuenta/ Everything Counts by Saul Bellow ( 2007) |
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Todo cuenta/ Count Everything Del Pasado Remoto Al Futuro Incierto/ from the Remote Past to Uncertain Future by Saul Bellow ( 2005) |
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The Victim A Novel by Saul Bellow ( 1996)
Bellow's second novel charts the descent into paranoia of Asa Leventhal, sub-editor of a trade magazine. With his wife away visiting her mother, Asa is alone, but not for long. His sister-in-law summons him to Staten Island to help with his sick nephew. Other demands mount, and readers witness a man losing control.
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Las aventuras de Augie March/ The Adventures of Augie March by Saul Bellow ( 2007) |
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El legado de Humboldt/ The Humboldt Legacy by Saul Bellow ( 2009) |
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