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3) Saul Bellow
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This volume is divided into four sections. The first section consists of a short biographical sketch of Bellow's life and an introduction to Bellow's work. The second section presents four new essays commissioned specifically for this book by distinguished Bellow critics. The third section includes fourteen reprinted essays that not only offer provocative and thoughtful readings of the major texts but also collectively reflect the history of criticism...
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"Saul Bellow is one of the most influential figures in 20th century American Literature. Bellow's work explores the most important cultural and social experiences of his era: the impact of the Holocaust, the urban experience of European immigrants from a Jewish perspective, the fraught failures of the Vietnam War, the ideological seduction of Marxism and Modernism, and changing attitudes between gender and race. This Companion demonstrates the complexity...
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For 20 years now, Saul Bellow has been described by critics as the last standing humanist on the apocalyptic battlefields, as the unique "affirmer" in a company of nihilists. His fiction has been seen as embodying those human values we need most to be reminded of: love, truth, honor and usefulness. Jonathan Wilson, making a radical break from the mainstream, explores what he calls "the dark side" of Bellow. He wonders how a writer, whose message is...
11) Saul Bellow
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Saul Bellow is the most important American novelist of the post-war years. The body of his work, which now spans a period of some 50 years, offers a penetrating account of the history of the second half of the twentieth century, for Bellow is not only a creator of compelling fictions, but also a leading commentator on the current state of civilization, constantly engaged with the issues of the moment. He is a writer of great comic vision who can gaze...
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In the first critical study to deal with all of Bellow's fictional works to date, Fuchs gives a unique look at the novelist's imagination at work. Granted sole permission to quote from all of Bellow's unpublished manuscripts and letters, Fuchs studies the stages of Bellow's work, the stages that altered the essential nature of characters and scenes. Analyzing Bellow's literary and cultural milieus, he elucidates his complete vision and shows how this...
16) Saul Bellow
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Contains seventeen critical essays on Bellow's work, arranged in chronological order of publication.
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Pifer contends that Bellow's fiction is fundamentally radical. Going against the grain of contemporary culture and its secular pieties, he undermines accepted notions of reality and challenges the "orthodoxies" created by materialist values and rationalist thought. Charged by his belief in the soul, his 10 novels test the assumptions of traditional realism. Pifer stresses the importance to Bellow of the invisible world, the longing for revelation,...
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