Herzog | Social Concerns/Themes
Herzog grapples with basic questions. How should one live? Are traditional moral and religious values viable in a materialistic society? Can value itself be reconciled with fact? These issues apparently struck home to large numbers of Americans, for Herzog became Bellow's biggest best seller.
The concerns are dramatized in the predicament of Moses Elkanah Herzog. He himself states that "the question of ordinary human experience is the principal question of these modern centuries." Cuckolded/ twice divorced, unemployed, desperate, he struggles to survive. He sees large...
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