Herzog (Masterplots, Revised Second Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Saul Bellow
- First Published: 1964
- Type of Work: Novel
- Type of Plot: Psychological realism
- Time of Work: 1960’s
- Setting: New York City, Chicago, Ludeyville, the Berkshires
- Principal Characters: Moses Elkanah Herzog, Madeleine Pontritter Herzog, June, Valentine Gersbach, Ramona Donsell, William Herzog, Lucas Asphalter
- 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
The Story:
Herzog went through a difficult time. While living in New York City, in June, he spent most of his time writing letters. Sometimes he wrote them on paper, sometimes only in his mind. He wrote to people he knew, people he had never met, and people who had died long before he was born. He wrote to Dwight David Eisenhower, thirty-fourth president of the United States; Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, who died in 1900; his dead mother; some of his intellectual rivals; even God. In the letters, he argued about intellectual things the people had said or written; sometimes he...
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