Herzog | Literary Precedents
The literary work most often mentioned in connection with Herzog is James Joyce's Ulysses (1922). It is tempting to see Leopold Bloom, the intelligent and moral Jew wandering in a hostile environment, as a precursor of Moses Herzog. But Bellow himself has complained that "the Joyce thing is purely a coincidence." On the other hand, Bellow has characterized Ulysses as "the modern masterpiece of confusion .... There the mind is unable to resist experience." Herzog, in contrast, has a stronger, more purposeful mind than Bloom and imposes a certain order on the disintegrating...
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