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Saul Bellow dead at 89

Posted on 04/05/2005 4:02:46 PM PDT by Lizavetta

Just heard it on the radio...........


TOPICS: Culture/Society
KEYWORDS: bellow; literature; obituary; saulbellow; solomonbellows
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To: MisterRepublican

Books by Saul Bellow


Dangling man. NY: Vanguard P, 1944. PS3503.E4488 D3
The Victim. NY: Vanguard P, 1947. PS3503.E4488 .V5

The Adventures of Augie March, 1953.

Seize the Day, 1956.

Henderson, the rain king; a novel. NY: Viking P, 1959. PS3503.E4488 .H4

Herzog, 1964.

The last analysis. NY: Viking P, 1965. PS3503.E4488 L3

The Arts & the public. Essays by Saul Bellow and others. Edited by James E. Miller, Jr. and Paul D. Herring. Chicago: U of Chicago P, 1967 PS688 .A7

Mosby's memoirs and other stories. NY: Viking P, 1968. PS3503.E4488 M6

Mr. Sammler's planet. NY: Viking P, 1970. PS3503.E4488 .M4

Technology and the frontiers of knowledge. Foreword: Daniel J. Boorstin. Contributors Saul Bellow and others. The Frank Nelson Doubleday lectures; 1972 73. T185 T38

Humboldt's gift. NY: Viking P, 1975. PS3503.E4488 H8

To Jerusalem and back: a personal account. NY: Viking P, 1976. DS107.4 B37

The dean's December: a novel. NY: Harper & Row, 1982. PS3503.E4488 D4

Him with his foot in his mouth and other stories. NY: Harper & Row, 1984. PS3503 .E4488 H56

More die of heartbreak. NY: Morrow, 1987. PS3503 .E4488 M5

A theft: a novella. NY: Penguin Books, 1989. PS 3503 .E4488 T4

The bellarosa connection. NY: Penguin, 1989. PS3503 .E4488 B45

Something to Remember Me By, 1991.

It all adds up: from the dim past to the uncertain future: a nonfiction collection. NY: Viking, 1994. PS3503 .E4488 O23

The actual. NY: Viking, 1997. PS3503 .E4488 A63


21 posted on 04/05/2005 4:32:41 PM PDT by AmericanMade1776
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To: MisterRepublican

"And Saul Bellow is...?"

One of the greatest writers of the 20th century.

RIP


22 posted on 04/05/2005 4:33:45 PM PDT by Marguerite
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To: Lizavetta

Read SEIZE THE DAY...Carpe diem....!


23 posted on 04/05/2005 4:34:00 PM PDT by AmericanMade1776
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To: AmericanMade1776

bump


24 posted on 04/05/2005 4:35:51 PM PDT by Lizavetta
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To: passionfruit

i dpnt doo preevue, as you can tel...


25 posted on 04/05/2005 4:36:38 PM PDT by clintonh8r (Heteronormative and PROUD!!)
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To: stop_fascism
He's the epitome of the struggle of American writers to aspire to the Intellectual European Novelist tradition. It says something that his only idea of how to get there was to write a novel (Herzog) about a man writing letters to these great figures of the past.
26 posted on 04/05/2005 4:38:05 PM PDT by Borges
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To: AmericanMade1776
Read SEIZE THE DAY...Carpe diem....!

bump

27 posted on 04/05/2005 4:38:55 PM PDT by nicmarlo
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To: Marguerite
"Saul Bellow's status in the post-WW II period of American literature can only be compared to that of Hemingway or Faulkner in the earlier part of the century. Nobel Laureate (1976) and winner of numerous awards, Bellow has commanded serious critical attention for more than 45 years. By now, he is undoubtedly one of the most written-about fiction writers of the contemporary American period. Since the 1950 scholars have produced over 30 published volumes and over 1,500 scholarly essays attest to his importance. Such interest hinges largely on the fact that no other post-WW II American writer has analyzed so completely and so humanely the effects of American cultural anxiety with the age of technology and rationalism, existentialism, and the legacy of high modernism. Scorning absurdism, nihilism, alienation ethics, and belief in Deus Abscondus, refuting historicist pessimism, preaching against the void, and defending the embattled masculine self of Western metaphysics, Bellow has affirmed Judeo-Christian religious and social values more strongly perhaps than any other twentieth-century writer. From within this space he has tried to restore the integrity of feeling, the meaning of ordinary existence, and the primacy of social contract to a society in which he perceives these things to be in eclipse. Likewise, few writers have explored so thoroughly and humorously the high comedy of heterosexual relations in our age, or the multiple, defeating "masculinities" to which the American male is heir. That he has failed to deal adequately with "femininity" and people of color is a commonplace of recent Bellow criticism and cannot be ignored. However, it is the complexity of this failure which he shares with so many other male writers that should interest us. "

Dr. Gloria L. Cronin Brigham Young University

28 posted on 04/05/2005 4:39:28 PM PDT by AmericanMade1776
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To: Lizavetta

SAUL BELLOW (1915-2005)

Primary Works:

Dangling man

The Victim

Seize the Day

Henderson, the rain king

Herzog

Mosby's memoirs

Mr. Sammler's planet

Humboldt's Gift

To Jerusalem and back

The dean's December

Him with his foot in his mouth

More die of heartbreak

(I read all of them. Great books)




29 posted on 04/05/2005 4:41:16 PM PDT by Marguerite
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To: Borges

I think you're right. That's one of the things I hold against him. That and his complete disdain of craft.


30 posted on 04/05/2005 4:46:15 PM PDT by stop_fascism
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To: Lizavetta

yeah, if you could tell us who these supposedly important people are in your original post, that would be great.

Thanks.


31 posted on 04/05/2005 4:46:15 PM PDT by rwfromkansas (http://www.xanga.com/home.aspx?user=rwfromkansas)
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To: Borges

Never heard of the guy.


32 posted on 04/05/2005 4:48:35 PM PDT by rwfromkansas (http://www.xanga.com/home.aspx?user=rwfromkansas)
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To: Borges

lol..that's good


33 posted on 04/05/2005 4:49:32 PM PDT by rwfromkansas (http://www.xanga.com/home.aspx?user=rwfromkansas)
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To: Lizavetta

Who is he?


34 posted on 04/05/2005 4:51:48 PM PDT by nmh (Intelligent people recognize Intelligent Design (God).)
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To: nmh

American novelist and Nobel Prize winner. I'm a Chicago guy so I hold a special place in my heart for the guy.


35 posted on 04/05/2005 4:53:24 PM PDT by Borges
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To: Borges
The quote he gets credit (or blame) for is "Where's the Zulu Tolstoy? I'll be glad to read him."

Was that Bellow? Never saw that quote attributed to anyone.

I read Bellow years ago; maybe now's the time to go back and reread a few of his novels. Probably everything I ever thought about New York City, before going there and seeing for myself, I learned about by reading Bellow.

RIP

36 posted on 04/05/2005 4:53:34 PM PDT by radiohead
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To: calcowgirl

Now I remember him - author of "The Closing of the American Mind."


37 posted on 04/05/2005 4:55:43 PM PDT by nmh (Intelligent people recognize Intelligent Design (God).)
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To: Borges

When I saw this, a bell went off -

author of "The Closing of the American Mind."

Guess I'm getting senile.


38 posted on 04/05/2005 4:56:32 PM PDT by nmh (Intelligent people recognize Intelligent Design (God).)
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To: nmh

That was Alan Bloom! A friend of Bellow's.


39 posted on 04/05/2005 4:56:55 PM PDT by Borges
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To: radiohead

He was Chicago based and wrote about Chicago primarily.


40 posted on 04/05/2005 4:57:33 PM PDT by Borges
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