The Adventures of Augie March (Magill Book Reviews)
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- Author: Saul Bellow
- First Published: 1953
- Type of Work: Novel
- Genres: Long fiction, Picaresque fiction
- Subjects: Values, Crime or criminals, 1940’s, Antiheroes, 1920’s, 1930’s, Chicago, Jews or Jewish life, Theft, Wealth, Materialism
- Locales: Mexico, Paris, France, Chicago, IL, Buffalo, NY
Like Mark Twain’s Huckleberry Finn, Augie March is a picaresque hero, a restless wanderer who refuses to be civilized, a permanent outsider. He pursues innocence while renouncing possibilities for power, success, and commitment.
Augie’s adventures take him throughout Chicago and its environs, to Mexico, to the North Atlantic during World War II, and to exile in Paris after the war. He works at an endless series of jobs, including doing research for an eccentric millionaire, who is writing a history of happiness. Drifting from one level of society to another, Augie has no idea...
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