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Author: Saul Bellow
First Published: 1964
Type of Work: Novel
Type of Plot: Psychological realism
Time of Work: The early 1960’s
Setting: New York City, Chicago, Ludeyville, and the Berkshires
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

Moses Elkanah Herzog, an unemployed American professor and intellectual whose major interest is the history of ideas. He is forty-seven years old, with a lined face and graying hair. Descended from Russian Jewish immigrants who were notably unsuccessful in the United States, he has lost his direction in life and spends his time writing letters—which he does not intend to mail—to friends, acquaintances, celebrities, and leaders, past and present. These letters combine his thoughts on a wide variety of subjects including science, philosophy, psychology,...

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