The Gonzaga Manuscripts (Masterplots II: Short Story Series, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Saul Bellow
- First Published: 1954
- Type of Plot: Realism
- Time of Work: About 1950
- Setting: Madrid
- Principal Characters: Clarence Feiler, Faith Ungar, Guzman del Nido
- Genres: Psychological fiction, Short fiction
- Subjects: Maturation or coming of age, Self-discovery, Traveling or travelers, Prejudices or antipathies, Poetry or poets, Spain or Spanish people
- Locales: Madrid, Spain
The Story
For the purposes of this story, Saul Bellow invents a famous modern Spanish poet, Manuel Gonzaga, whose elusive manuscripts set the plot in motion. Clarence Feiler is a naïve young man from California who hears from a Spanish Republican refugee that there are more than one hundred poems by Gonzaga somewhere in Madrid. Feiler wrote his graduate thesis on Gonzaga's Los Huesos Secos, an experience that, he felt, put him “in touch with a poet who could show me how to go on, and what attitude to take toward life.” Feiler has been leading an aimless fife; he realizes...
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