Saul Bellow

"I Was a Jew and an American and a Writer"

Inbunden, Engelska, 2024

AvGerald Sorin

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Saul Bellow: "I Was a Jew and an American and a Writer" offers a fresh and original perspective on the life and works of Saul Bellow, the Nobel Prize winner in Literature in 1976. Author Gerald Sorin emphasizes Bellow's Jewish identity as fundamental to his being and the content and meaning of his fiction. Bellow's work from the 1940s to 2000, when he wrote his last novel at the age of 84, centers on the command in Deuteronomy to "Choose life" as distinct from nihilistic withdrawal and the defense of meaninglessness.Although Bellow disdained the label of "American Jewish Writer," Sorin conjectures that he was an outstanding representative of the classification. Bellow and the characters in his fiction not only choose life but also explore what it means to live a good life, however difficult that may be to define, and regardless of how much harder it is to achieve. For Sorin, Bellow realized that at least two obstacles stood in the way: the imperfection of the world and the frailty of the human pursuer.Saul Bellow: "I Was a Jew and an American and a Writer" provides a new and insightful narrative of the life and works of Saul Bellow. By using Bellow's deeply internalized Jewishness and his remarkable imagination and creativity as a lens, Sorin examines how he captured the shifting atmosphere of postwar American culture.

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Utgivningsdatum2024-04-30
Mått152 x 229 x undefined mm
Vikt1 052 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SerieModern Jewish Experience
Antal sidor602
FörlagIndiana University Press
ISBN9780253069436

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AcknowledgmentsList of TransliterationsIntroduction1. In the Beginning2. Adapting to America3. The Education of Saul Bellow4. Dangling Men5. In the Shadow of the Holocaust6. In the Land of the Holocaust7. The Adventures of Saul Bellow8. Fathers and Sons9. Husbands and Wives10. Friendships and Betrayals11. Wealth, Fame, and Jewish Identity in 1960s America12. Love and Death13. Bellow's Gift, Israel, and the Nobel Prize14. Bellow's December15. A Whole New Life16. Bellow Banished and Bruised17. Life and DeathAppendix: Saul Bellow's First Published PieceNotesSources and BibliographyIndex

"Gerald Sorin's volume is a wonderful addition to the body of criticism on Bellow. These are easily among the best readings of Bellow's fiction I have read, and the portrait of Bellow in this book will be essential reading for anyone interested in this great and currently neglected author."—David Mikics, author of Bellow's People: How Saul Bellow Made Life Into Art"Well-informed and sympathetic, free of jargon and written in a clear style."—Paul Devlin, editor of Ralph Ellison in Context