The Dean’s December (Cyclopedia of Literary Characters)
At a glance:
- Author: Saul Bellow
- First Published: 1982
- Type of Work: Novel
- Type of Plot: Comic realism
- Time of Work: The 1970’s
- Setting: Bucharest, Chicago, and California
- Genres: Long fiction, Problem novel
- Subjects: Teaching or teachers, 1970’s, North America or North Americans, United States or Americans, Journalism or journalists, Communism or communists, Chicago, California, West, U.S., Death or dying, Eastern Europe or eastern Europeans
- Locales: California, Chicago, IL, Bucharest, Romania
Characters Discussed
Albert Corde, a journalism professor and dean at a university in Chicago. Caught between his intellectual, idealistic belief in morality and the pragmatic, relativistic demands of the modern world, Albert seeks balance in his life. In the past, he abandoned journalism for the relative seclusion of the academy, but two events draw him back into direct consideration of the world beyond the university: Rick Lester’s murder and the death of Albert’s mother-in-law in Romania. Rick Lester’s death leads Albert into an examination of the morally corrupt and...
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