Herzog | Moving Outwards: Consciousness, Discourse and Attention in Saul Bellow's Fiction
In the following essay excerpt, Corner analyzes how, in the character of Herzog, Bellow dramatizes “the overcoming of the pathology of discursive consciousness through memory and acts of attention.”
A Contrast
Consider the following passages from the first chapter of Saul Bellow's Herzog. Moses Herzog is riding in a cab through the streets of New York on his way to catch the train to Vineyard Haven:
They made a sweeping turn into Park Avenue and Herzog clutched the broken window handle. It wouldn't open. But if it opened dust would pour in. They were demolishing and raising buildings. The Avenue was filled with concretemixing trucks, smells of wet sand and powdery gray cement. Crashing, stamping pile-driving below, and, higher, structural...
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