Herzog (Cyclopedia of Literary Places)
At a glance:
- Author: Saul Bellow
- First Published: 1964
- Type of Work: Novel
- Type of Plot: Psychological realism
- Time of Work: 1960’s
- Genres: Long fiction, Psychological fiction
- Subjects: 1960’s, New York, North America or North Americans, Northeast, U.S., United States or Americans, Philosophy or philosophers, New York City, Marriage, Chicago, Mental illness, Adultery, Letter writing, Divorce, Amputation, amputees, or prosthetics
- Locales: New York, NY, Chicago, IL, Berkshires, MA
Places Discussed
*Chicago. Gritty midwestern city in which the Canadian- born Saul Bellow grew up. Chicago figures prominently in his writings; indeed, Bellow’s great strength is his portrayal of the density and fabric of modern urban life in America. The city is associated with the Jewish American social and cultural experience to which Bellow is drawn. Such major urban centers as Chicago, with its grinding poverty, street crime, youth gangs, and widespread racism—all the ills of modern society—are also focal points of cultural and intellectual life and thus are treated...
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