It All Adds Up (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: Saul Bellow
- First Published: 1994
- Type of Work: Essays
- Time of Work: The late 1940’s to the 1990’s
- Setting: Paris, Illinois, Vermont, Spain, Israel, and Italy
- Genres: Nonfiction, Essays
- Subjects: Child rearing or parenting, Self-discovery, Memory, Traveling or travelers, France or French people, Midwest, Human race, Italy or Italians, Eastern Europe or eastern Europeans, Israel or Israelis
- Locales: Spain, Paris, France, Italy, Illinois, Israel, Vermont
Nearing his eightieth year, Saul Bellow can look back at his fifteen or so novels with a deep sense of a job well done. No other American writer of the later twentieth century will leave behind a more distinguished and inspiring oeuvre. To make such claims for Bellow in the mid-1990’s may strike contemporary readers as somewhat exaggerated. Later novellas such as A Theft (1989) and The Bellarosa Connection (1989) struck many readers as representative of a decline in inventiveness that was already apparent in More Die of Heartbreak, Bellow’s last true novel,...
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