CliffsNotes on Bellow's Herzog
Title | CliffsNotes on Bellow's Herzog PDF eBook |
Author | Ronald L Lycette |
Publisher | Houghton Mifflin Harcourt |
Pages | 36 |
Release | 1999-03-03 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 0544182049 |
This CliffsNotes guide includes everything you’ve come to expect from the trusted experts at CliffsNotes, including analysis of the most widely read literary works.
The Victim
Title | The Victim PDF eBook |
Author | Saul Bellow |
Publisher | Odyssey Editions |
Pages | 260 |
Release | 2013-09-26 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 1623730198 |
It's sweltering summer in New York City, and Asa Leventhal is alone. His co-workers ignore or condescend to him, his wife is away with her mother, and his estranged brother has run off, abandoning his wife and two sons. One night, Leventhal is confronted by a stranger--'one of those guys who want you to think they can see to the bottom of your soul'--who reveals himself to be a marginal figure from his distant past. Leventhal, accused of ruining the man's life, becomes shocked and dismissive, vehemently denying any part in the man's unhappy lot. But as time passes, he is increasingly unable to separate his own good fortune from the bad luck of this down-and-out stranger, who will not leave him be. A brief, haunting rumination on the vagaries of fate and responsibility, The Victim is, in the words of Norman Rush, Saul Bellow's "purest creation."
Henderson the Rain King
Title | Henderson the Rain King PDF eBook |
Author | Saul Bellow |
Publisher | Turtleback Books |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 1996-06 |
Genre | Genealogy |
ISBN | 9780613172745 |
A middle-age American millionaire goes to Africa in search of a more meaningful life and receives the adoration of an African tribe that believes he has a gift for rainmaking
Dangling Man
Title | Dangling Man PDF eBook |
Author | Saul Bellow |
Publisher | Penguin UK |
Pages | 191 |
Release | 2013-04-04 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 0141389303 |
Expecting to be inducted into the army, Joseph has given up his job and carefully prepared for his departure to the battlefront. When a series of mix-ups delays his induction, he finds himself facing a year of idleness. Dangling Man is his journal, a wonderful account of his restless wanderings through Chicago's streets, his musings on the past, his psychological reaction to his inactivity while war rages around him, and his uneasy insights into the nature of freedom and choice.
The Publishers Weekly
Title | The Publishers Weekly PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Pages | 666 |
Release | 1972 |
Genre | American literature |
ISBN |
The Centaur
Title | The Centaur PDF eBook |
Author | John Updike |
Publisher | Random House |
Pages | 305 |
Release | 2012-06-05 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 067964587X |
WINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD AND THE PRIX DU MEILLEUR LIVRE ÉTRANGER The Centaur is a modern retelling of the legend of Chiron, the noblest and wisest of the centaurs, who, painfully wounded yet unable to die, gave up his immortality on behalf of Prometheus. In the retelling, Olympus becomes small-town Olinger High School; Chiron is George Caldwell, a science teacher there; and Prometheus is Caldwell’s fifteen-year-old son, Peter. Brilliantly conflating the author’s remembered past with tales from Greek mythology, John Updike translates Chiron’s agonized search for relief into the incidents and accidents of three winter days spent in rural Pennsylvania in 1947. The result, said the judges of the National Book Award, is “a courageous and brilliant account of a conflict in gifts between an inarticulate American father and his highly articulate son.”
Saul Bellow and the Decline in Humanism
Title | Saul Bellow and the Decline in Humanism PDF eBook |
Author | Michael K. Glenday |
Publisher | Springer |
Pages | 229 |
Release | 1990-06-18 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 1349107743 |
This is a study revealing Saul Bellow's views on the decline of humanism. With chapters on each of Bellow's novels from "Dangling" to "More Die of Heartbreak", the author argues that Bellow's vision of modern American culture denies the possibility of humanist enlightenment for his heroes.