Saul Bellow (1915–2005)
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Saul Bellow was born in Lachine, Quebec, Canada on June 10, 1915. He attended the University of Chicago, received a Bachelor's degree in sociology and anthropology from Northwestern University in 1937, and did graduate work at the University of Wisconsin. He taught at several universities including visa mer the University of Minnesota, Princeton University, the University of Chicago, New York University, and Boston University. His first novel, Dangling Man, was published in 1944. His other works include The Victim, Seize the Day, Henderson the Rain King, Mosby's Memoirs and Other Stories, To Jerusalem and Back: A Personal Account, Him with His Foot in His Mouth and Other Stories, More Die of Heartbreak, and Something to Remember Me By. He received numerous awards including the 1975 Pulitzer Prize for Humboldt's Gift, the 1976 Nobel Prize in Literature, and three National Book Awards for fiction for The Adventures of Augie March in 1954, Herzog in 1964, and Mr. Sammler's Planet in 1970. Also a playwright, he wrote The Last Analysis and three short plays, collectively entitled Under the Weather, which were produced on Broadway in 1966. He died on April 5, 2005. (Bowker Author Biography) visa färre
Foto taget av: Saul Bellow - Photograph taken during the Dejan Stojanovic's interview with Saul Bellow at the University of Chicago in the spring of 1992.
Serier
Verk av Saul Bellow
Novels, 1944-1953 : The Dangling Man; The Victim; The Adventures of Augie March (2003) — Författare — 342 exemplar
Van een vaag verleden naar een onzekere toekomst {selections from It All Adds Up} (1994) 302 exemplar
Bellow: Novels 1970-1982: Mr. Sammler's Planet / Humboldt's Gift / The Dean's December (Library of… (2010) — Författare — 122 exemplar
Traverse plays (Penguin plays) 8 plays by international authors premiered by Traverse Theatre Edinburgh (1966) 14 exemplar
Best-in-Books: Great American Short Novels - Lost Horizon / Red Pony / Third Man / Single Pebble / Light in the Piazza… (1966) 4 exemplar
Orange Souffle / Out from Under / A Wen 4 exemplar
Romanzi 3 exemplar
Romanzi 1: 1944-1959 (Danglng Man; The Victim; The Adventures of Augie March; Seize the Day; Henderson the Rain King) (2007) 3 exemplar
Kirjailijan työ : Saul Bellow, William Faulkner, Ernest Hemingway, Boris Pasternak, Kurt Vonnegut (1985) 3 exemplar
The Arts & the Public 3 exemplar
Looking For Mr. Green 2 exemplar
New world writing : 12 2 exemplar
O Planeta do Se. Sammler 2 exemplar
Un Piatto D'argento 2 exemplar
Cartas e Recordações 2 exemplar
Recent American Fiction: A Lecture Presented Under The Auspices Of The Gertrude Clarke Whittall Poetry And Literature… (2012) 2 exemplar
A Father-to-Be 2 exemplar
Presença de mulher 2 exemplar
Romanzi 2: 1960-2000 (Herzog; Mr. Sammler's Planet; Humboldt's Gift; A Theft; The Bellarosa Connection; Something to… (2008) — Författare — 2 exemplar
Mozart 2 exemplar
What Kind of Day Did You Have? 2 exemplar
הסיפורים הנבחרים 2 exemplar
Το δώρο του Χάμπολντ 1 exemplar
The Adventures of Augie March Slip cased 1 exemplar
More Die of Heartbreak: A Novel 1 exemplar
Actual, The 1 exemplar
La vittima. Romanzo 1 exemplar
כוכב-הלכת של מר סאמלר 1 exemplar
הרפתקאות אוגי מארץ' 1 exemplar
L'autèntica - Premi Nobel 1976 1 exemplar
Herzog Il dono di Humbold 1 exemplar
Herzog (Penguin Classics) Seize the Day 1 exemplar
Rare Antique More Die Heartbreak Saul Bellow Nobel Prize 1st Edition First Printing Novel 1 exemplar
The Noble Savage 2 — Redaktör — 1 exemplar
Jugar a perdre 1 exemplar
Heros 1 exemplar
Under the Weather: 3 One-Act Plays 1 exemplar
Orange Souffle / The Wrecker 1 exemplar
2002 1 exemplar
ממשות 1 exemplar
Mientras Agonizo 1 exemplar
? 1 exemplar
Prea multe lucruri la care sa te gandesti 1 exemplar
BEL Acusado 1 exemplar
Associerade verk
Literature: An Introduction to Fiction, Poetry, and Drama (1995) — Översättare, vissa utgåvor — 902 exemplar
The Second Gates of Paradise: The Anthology of Erotic Short Fiction (1997) — Bidragsgivare — 37 exemplar
Published and Perished: Memoria, Eulogies, and Remembrances of American Writers (2002) — Bidragsgivare — 36 exemplar
Fifty Years of the American Short Story from the O. Henry Awards 1919-1970 (1970) — Bidragsgivare — 13 exemplar
New World Writing: Sixth Mentor Selection - A New Adventure in Modern Reading (1954) — Bidragsgivare — 11 exemplar
Literary Imagination, Ancient and Modern: Essays in Honor of David Grene (1999) — Bidragsgivare — 7 exemplar
Fifty Years of the American Short Story: from the O. Henry Awards 1919-1970 (Volume I) (1970) — Bidragsgivare — 2 exemplar
32 Współczesne Opowiadania Amerykańskie - Tom I — Bidragsgivare — 1 exemplar
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Allmänna fakta
- Namn enligt folkbokföringen
- Bellows, Solomon
- Födelsedag
- 1915-07-10
- Avled
- 2005-04-05
- Begravningsplats
- Morningside Cemetery, Brattleboro, Vermont, USA
- Kön
- male
- Nationalitet
- USA
- Land (för karta)
- USA
- Födelseort
- Lachine, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
- Dödsort
- Brookline, Massachusetts, USA
- Bostadsorter
- Chicago, Illinois, USA
- Utbildning
- University of Chicago [1939]
Northwestern University [1937]
University of Wisconsin - Organisationer
- U.S. Merchant Marines
- Priser och utmärkelser
- American national book award (1965)
Prix international de litérature (1965) - Kort biografi
- Saul Bellow est un écrivain et universitaire américain.
Il est né en 1915, à Lachine, une banlieue industrielle de Montréal, le 10 juin 1915. Ses parents ont émigré deux ans auparavant de la Russie du tsar, de Saint-Pétersbourg. Le père de Saul, Abraham Bellow – le « gentilhomme » évoqué dans le roman le plus autobiographique, Herzog –, après avoir fait faillite comme boulanger, exerce plusieurs petits métiers.
Enfant, Saul Bellow grandit dans un quartier miséreux de Montréal, au contact de la communauté juive. Lorsqu'il a neuf ans, la famille Bellow émigre de nouveau et s'installe dans un quartier polonais du West Side de Chicago.
Saul a une enfance rêveuse et solitaire – studieuse aussi, car il est très tôt attiré par les choses de l'esprit. L'influence juive est prépondérante; il suit d'ailleurs un enseignement talmudique.
Étudiant brillant, il fréquente l'université de Chicago, puis la Northwestern University où il étudie l'anthropologie et la sociologie. Jeune écrivain, pour gagner sa vie, il collabore quelque temps à l'Encyclopaedia Britannica tout en enseignant dans un collège de Chicago. Pendant la Seconde Guerre mondiale, il sert dans la marine marchande; dès la fin du conflit, il s'installe à New York.
Au confluent de trois cultures - américaine, russe et yiddish -, Saul Bellow se veut un moraliste, un chroniqueur de son siècle et un découvreur d'idées nouvelles. Cet humaniste est peut-être l'écrivain américain qui récapitule le mieux l'expérience des immigrants ou fils d'immigrants à la découverte de leur Amérique, en porte-à-faux dans leur pays et dans leur époque : de cette instabilité, de ce désarroi du moi, il a fait le thème de toute son œuvre, laquelle atteint rapidement une audience internationale et est couronnée du prix Nobel en 1976.
Medlemmar
Diskussioner
One Book One Chicago Fall 2011 i Chicagoans (augusti 2011)
The Adventures of Augie March - eromsted i Review Discussions (december 2009)
Recensioner
Herzog (Penguin Classics) av Saul Bellow
I cannot believe I finally finished this book. I really, really hated the first third, loved the middle third, and was ok with the last. Major slog, though I suppose I get that Bellow is someone to look at again. Someday. In the distant future. When I've recovered.
Reason read: my TBR takedown selection for October 2023. I generally like Bellows. This was a so so book for me. A story of a man who fails at everything and gets used and abused by all; his father, his wife, and acquaintances. Phrases from my copy;“raging soul that mirrors the color, sound, and fury of Saul Bellow’s big-city fictional universe.” It is more a story of a man who fails at his dreams, wants to get rich easy, meets up with the end of all man.
This is Bellow's second novel, so a very early work for him. Asa Leventhal is alone for the summer, his wife having gone to help her mother move. Walking through the neighborhood one evening, Asa is accosted by an old acquaintance, Kirby Albee, who is drunk. Kirby accuses Asa of having caused him to be fired from his job several years previously. Over the next six weeks or so Kirby becomes increasingly more aggressive in his attacks on Asa, many of which Asa interprets as anti-semitic.
While all this is going on, Asa must also help out with his absent brother's wife and her very ill son. He also is trying to figure out, contacting others from his past, whether he really had played any part in Kirby's being fired from his job.
In the introduction, the book is described as "a parable in the guise of a middle-European realist novel." At the time he was writing it, details of the Holocaust were just becoming known to the world. Bellow has said that the theme of the book is guilt and it is somewhat about anti-semitism. There is a definite play about the ambiguity over who is the victim--Asa or Kirby? In fact they victimize each other.
I found the style of writing very distancing from the characters. I could never work myself up to sympathize with any of the characters. The writing beautifully portrayed life in post-WW II New York City--the heat of the summer, the crowds, the grittiness, and I enjoyed reading about what life was like in the city then. But it was never a book that called to me because I was enjoying it so much or because I wanted to find out what was going to happen next. So, mildly recommended.
3 stars… (mer)
While all this is going on, Asa must also help out with his absent brother's wife and her very ill son. He also is trying to figure out, contacting others from his past, whether he really had played any part in Kirby's being fired from his job.
In the introduction, the book is described as "a parable in the guise of a middle-European realist novel." At the time he was writing it, details of the Holocaust were just becoming known to the world. Bellow has said that the theme of the book is guilt and it is somewhat about anti-semitism. There is a definite play about the ambiguity over who is the victim--Asa or Kirby? In fact they victimize each other.
I found the style of writing very distancing from the characters. I could never work myself up to sympathize with any of the characters. The writing beautifully portrayed life in post-WW II New York City--the heat of the summer, the crowds, the grittiness, and I enjoyed reading about what life was like in the city then. But it was never a book that called to me because I was enjoying it so much or because I wanted to find out what was going to happen next. So, mildly recommended.
3 stars… (mer)
I have tried several times to read Augie March and just can’t. So I thought it was time to try something different. Although I don’t think Bellow is my cup of tea—the book is a comedy of sorts about a rich American who has a mid-life crisis in a remote corner of Africa—I have to hand it to Bellow. He manages to keep one’s interest and make some serious observations in the context of what is largely a very funny book. That said, it was written in 1959 and seems surprisingly (to me, anyway) dated for such a major work.… (mer)
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- Verk
- 132
- Även av
- 47
- Medlemmar
- 30,393
- Popularitet
- #653
- Betyg
- 3.7
- Recensioner
- 385
- ISBN
- 883
- Språk
- 26
- Favoritmärkt
- 126
