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Saul Bellow

Saul Bellow: Novels 1944-1953 (LOA #141)

Dangling Man / The Victim / The Adventures of Augie March

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Winner of the Nobel Prize and a towering figure of twentieth-century literature, Saul Bellow secured his place as one of the most distinctive and significant writers of the postwar era with the publication of his third novel, The Adventures of Augie March. This Library of America volume collects all three of Bellow's early works, beginning with Dangling Man (1944), an incisive character study cast in the form of a diary that depicts the anguish and uncertainty of a man known only as Joseph. Expecting to be deployed to the war overseas, Joseph quits his job and finds himself increasingly on edge when his draft board defers his enlistment. The… Mehr

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Weitere Autoren: Wood, James
  • ISBN: 978-1-931082-38-9
  • EAN: 9781931082389
  • Produktnummer: 19367020
  • Verlag: Random House N.Y.
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • Erscheinungsjahr: 2003
  • Seitenangabe: 1029 S.

Über den Autor


Saul Bellow was born of Russian Jewish parents in Lachine, Quebec in 1915, and was raised in Chicago. His works include The Adventures of Augie March, which went on to win the National Book Award for fiction in 1954, Seize the Day (1956); Henderson the Rain King (1959); and Humboldt's Gift (1975), which won the Pulitzer Prize. In 1976 Bellow was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature for the human understanding and subtle analysis of contemporary culture that are combined in his work. In 2003, he became just the second living writer to have his works published in the Library of America series. He died in 2005.James Wood, editor, is a staff writer at The New Yorker and author of The Irresponsible Self: On Laughter and the Novel (2004), The Broken Estate: Essays on Literature and Belief(1999), and the novel The Book Against God (2003).

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