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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: Borges
"The quote he gets credit (or blame) for is "Where's the Zulu Tolstoy? I'll be glad to read him."

OUCH! cried Je$$e, Al,et al..............

41 posted on 04/05/2005 4:57:56 PM PDT by litehaus
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To: MisterRepublican
And Saul Bellow is...?

www.google.com

42 posted on 04/05/2005 5:02:21 PM PDT by judgeandjury
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To: MisterRepublican
"And Saul Bellow is...?"

Disheartening to see this on FR....Reminds me that during the 2000 election I wrote a Kerry supporter, brilliant computer type guy, and mentioned that he'd appreciate Ol' Noam...He wrote back saying he had " looked him up" and thought he was great.

I just wrote it off to youth and lack of reading anything outside his field of expertise.

43 posted on 04/05/2005 5:02:55 PM PDT by litehaus
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To: stop_fascism
I haven't read much of his work but I think you might be a trifle harsh. "Seize the Day" was a very good book, IMHO
44 posted on 04/05/2005 5:03:32 PM PDT by muir_redwoods (Free Sirhan Sirhan, after all, the bastard who killed Mary Jo Kopeckne is walking around free)
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To: muir_redwoods

It's the only book of his that was adapted to film. The 1986 film had Robin Williams and was a huge flop.


45 posted on 04/05/2005 5:04:24 PM PDT by Borges
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To: calcowgirl
"The backbone of 20th-century American literature has been provided by two novelists — William Faulkner and Saul Bellow," Philip Roth said Tuesday. "Together they are the Melville, Hawthorne, and Twain of the 20th century."

Well, here's to hyperbole. Give me a break.
46 posted on 04/05/2005 5:07:16 PM PDT by Ghost of Philip Marlowe (Liberals are blind. They are the dupes of Leftists who know exactly what they're doing.)
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To: Ghost of Philip Marlowe

He's half right. Faulkner is certainly right there with anyone. It's a toss up who number 2 is.


47 posted on 04/05/2005 5:11:10 PM PDT by Borges
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To: litehaus

Yes, it probably has to do with youth. I've never heard of this guy either and none of his books sound familiar. But now I can go catch up some. After all I didn't know who Ayn Rand was until I got on FR either.


48 posted on 04/05/2005 5:18:22 PM PDT by TXBubba ( Democrats: If they don't abort you then they will tax you to death.)
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To: Borges
Yes, I agree. I just didn't appreciate what appeared to be Roth's cronyism (trying to attach superlatives to a member of a group he is identified with by way of one who does deserve some superlatives).

Such statements about the arts are absurd anyway. "If Wagner were alive today he'd be composing heavy metal. If Shakespeare were alive today he'd be writing sitcoms."

Writers, especially novelists, are admired principally on matters of style (which is the content and how it is put forth). To try to rank them or compare them with predecessors speaks more about the ranker than the rankee.
49 posted on 04/05/2005 5:29:25 PM PDT by Ghost of Philip Marlowe (Liberals are blind. They are the dupes of Leftists who know exactly what they're doing.)
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To: RadioAstronomer; RightWingAtheist; Xenalyte; Tax-chick; MississippiMalcontent; tarzantheapeman

Bibliopath ping.

50 posted on 04/05/2005 5:32:39 PM PDT by Physicist
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To: MisterRepublican

Google is your friend....


51 posted on 04/05/2005 5:33:52 PM PDT by rudy45
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To: Borges

As I recall it was far to internal a book to easily work as a movie. Far to much internal dialogue


52 posted on 04/05/2005 5:34:25 PM PDT by muir_redwoods (Free Sirhan Sirhan, after all, the bastard who killed Mary Jo Kopeckne is walking around free)
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To: Physicist
In December 1999, Bellow's fifth wife, Janis Freedman, gave birth to their daughter, Naomi. Bellow, 84 at the time,

Dang! Beat out Anthony Quinn to be the "Procreator of Judea," didn't he?

I confess I haven't read anything of Saul Bellow's that I recall ... library list.

53 posted on 04/05/2005 5:35:42 PM PDT by Tax-chick (Do not fear the words of a sinner, for his splendor will turn into dung and worms.)
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To: Ghost of Philip Marlowe

If Shakespeare was alive today...interesting concept.


54 posted on 04/05/2005 5:41:30 PM PDT by AmericanMade1776
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To: calcowgirl
RIP Saul Bellow. Fathering a daughter at 84 is the ultimate rejection of the "culture of death," and a vote for the future.
55 posted on 04/05/2005 5:46:15 PM PDT by Malesherbes
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To: Ghost of Philip Marlowe
Writers, especially novelists, are admired principally on matters of style (which is the content and how it is put forth). To try to rank them or compare them with predecessors speaks more about the ranker than the rankee.

Recommended reading: Human Accomplishment by Charles Murray. Murray makes a game attempt at quantifying the "eminence" of creative geniuses in a time-independent and culture-normed way. I started out hostile to his theses, but he managed to convince me of almost all of them. Whether or not he succeeds in is a matter of opinion, but even as a failure it's extremely instructive.

56 posted on 04/05/2005 5:49:25 PM PDT by Physicist
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To: calcowgirl
the tight-lipped machismo of Ernest Hemingway.

They say that like it's a bad thing.

RIP Saul Bellow

57 posted on 04/05/2005 5:53:30 PM PDT by socal_parrot (Made you look)
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To: Malesherbes
Fathering a daughter at 84 is the ultimate rejection of the "culture of death," and a vote for the future.

Interesting. How do you feel about rock musicians and basketball stars who sire dozens of children with their groupies?

Granted that Bellow married his daughter's mother, but he set up that daughter to be just as fatherless as if he hadn't.

OTOH, I expect I'll probably see it differently when I'm 84.

58 posted on 04/05/2005 5:58:00 PM PDT by Physicist
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To: calcowgirl
at age 84, a daughter

Holy moly! I didn't think that was possible. I wonder what the oldest on record is.

59 posted on 04/05/2005 5:58:08 PM PDT by Sandy
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To: Physicist
Thanks for the ping. Bellow will be deeply missed.

Incidentally, how many others here first learned of Bellow when he was mentioned by Krusty's father on The Simpsons?

60 posted on 04/05/2005 5:58:17 PM PDT by RightWingAtheist (Creationism is not conservative!)
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