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5 days ago · In much the same way that William Faulkner created the necessary conditions for serious literature about the modern South and, in the process, inspired generations of literary followers, Saul Bellow made serious literature about modern urban Jewish Americans possible.
4 hours ago · These included Saul Bellow’s The Victim (1947) and Laura Hobson’s Gentleman’s Agreement (1947), which was later made into an Academy Award-winning film by the same name. 209 Both the film and the novel illuminate the experiences of one Phil Green, a non-Jewish journalist who pretended to be Jewish for an investigative story about the Jewish experience in America. By the story’s end ...
4 days ago · Thus in the Saul Bellow one I’m currently reading, I came across this query at around the same time as the famous post: “Did one turn aside the force of thousands of declines or dooms or deaths and then decide, by some process of selection too remote ever to be known, to fix on certain ones?”
4 days ago · David’s Pick: Seize the Day by Saul Bellow. A perfect short read, this novella compresses so much of life into a relatively small space. It’s a masterclass in portraying anxiety and frustration. Jayme’s Pick: Tell me three things by Julie Buxbaum
4 days ago · Besides, Saul Bellow uses many rhetorical devices to intensify the conflict. The analysis of these rhetorical devices is beneficial for us to interpret and understand the true meaning of the novel. Through the study of Bellow’s vision and the novel’s metaphorical meaning, we may find an effective solution to the conflict that our human being is involved in, and realize the social values of ...
5 days ago · The existence of the world is a marvel to Marilynne Robinson. Our ability to apprehend even shards of that marvel fills her with gratitude and wonder—and faith. The world, in return, has given her stamina. The run of books she produced in her sixties and seventies was extraordinary: four interconnected novels ( Gilead, Home, Lila, Jack) and ...
4 days ago · In his description of a cringing posture of Benjamin, Scholem – and then Santner – could thus have used the words of Saul Bellow who, in More Die of Heartbreak, gives a portrait of an old Jewish botanist, Benn Crader, the favourite uncle of the protagonist: “his hunch always gave an impression of being actually a wing case, but as if the ...
