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US novelist, b. Canada. His novels, usually set in Chicago, are concerned with the conflict between private and public, and the sense of alienation in 20th-century urban life. His debut novel was The Dangling Man (1944). Bellow won National Book awards for The Adventures of Augie March (1953), Herzog (1964), and Mr Sammler's Planet (1970). He won a Pulitzer Prize for Humboldt's Gift (1975). Other works include the novella Seize the Day (1956), The Dean's December (1982) and Something to Remember Me By (1993). He was awarded the 1976 Nobel Prize in literature.


Bellow, Saul

From Encyclopedia of American Studies
Saul Bellow (1915–2005) was an acclaimed Canadian-born, American Jewish writer, who received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1976. Perpetually interested in the essential question, How should a good man live? , his answer was in probing the individual's relationship to his mostly urban American environment. The human condition for modern man meant city life, almost always Chicago, or New York. As he put it in Humboldt's Gift (1975), in raw Chicago you could examine the human spirit under industrialism. The American city was composed of opposites in tension: privilege and pleasure and pain; rationality and madness. Bellow's first novels were written carefully, with caution, as an outsider trying to find acceptance. In The Adventures of Augie March (1953), his breakthrough novel, Chicago was the setting for his deepest emotions. Chicago stood for a typical mixture of heavy manufacturer, raw immigrants, the brutal scene of capitalist struggles, the sense or the pride of what it meant to…
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B. is without question the most honored of living American novelists. The recipient of three National Book Awards, a Pulitzer Prize, the international Prix Littéraire, and the 1976 Nobel Prize in literature, he enjoys a reputation distinct from that of writers like Joseph HELLER and Philip ROTH , …
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Full text Article Bellow, Saul

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US novelist, b. Canada. His novels, usually set in Chicago, are concerned with the conflict between private and public, and the sense of alienation in 20th-century urban life. His debut novel was The Dangling Man (1944). Bellow won National Book awards for The Adventures of Augie March (1953), …
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Canadian-born US writer. He moved to Chicago in 1924, and was educated there. His best novels examine Jewish-American identity and the dilemma of liberal humanist values in a fast-changing world. He won the Nobel prize for literature in 1976. Everyone knows there is no fineness or accuracy of…
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Full text Article CULTURE

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Culture, the acquainting ourselves with the best that has been known and said in the world, and thus the history of the human spirit. ARNOLD, Matthew Literature and Dogma . I wish I could bring Stonehenge to Nyasaland to show there was a time when Britain had a savage culture. BANDA, Dr Hastings The…
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Full text Article Saul Bellow (1915–2005)

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Full text Article Henderson the Rain King

From Brewer's Dictionary of Modern Phrase and Fable
A novel (1959) by the US novelist Saul Bellow (b.1915). Eugene Henderson, a disillusioned millionaire, journeys to Africa on an impulse, yearning for some new forms of satisfaction. He causes a disastrous mishap in one village when trying to cleanse its water supply. He then reaches another village…
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Saul Bellow (1915–2005) was an acclaimed Canadian-born, American Jewish writer, who received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1976. Perpetually interested in the essential question, How should a good man live? , his answer was in probing the individual's relationship to his mostly urban American…
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