Bellow, Saul (Vol. 2) - Bellow, Saul 1915–
Bellow, Saul 1915–
Canadian-born American novelist, Bellow, with his witty and intellectual works, has won critical encomiums and worldwide readership. He is the author of Herzog and Mr. Sammler's Planet. (See also Contemporary Authors, Vols. 5-8, rev. ed.)
It is perhaps because Mr. Bellow subconsciously sensed Augie's inadequacy as a character [in The Adventures of Augie March] that he sought through his style to impose upon his material an almost fearsome significance, a disguise of acute profundity, allusion, and paradox, suggesting that behind or above the people of the novel there hangs a thick cloud of metaphysical, philosophical, and historical truth in relation to which their thoughts and actions have meanings more sublime than any that may appear on the surface. One can in fact say that it is the style alone that preserves the novel from the purely naturalistic stereotype, that keeps it from being simply a...
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