The Dean’s December | The Dean’s December

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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

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...

The Dean’s December | The Dean’s December

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