Humboldt’s Gift (Cyclopedia of Literary Characters)
At a glance:
- Author: Saul Bellow
- First Published: 1975
- Type of Work: Novel
- Type of Plot: Psychological realism
- Time of Work: The early 1970’s
- Setting: Chicago, New York City, Corpus Christi, Houston, Madrid, and Paris
- Genres: Long fiction, Psychological fiction
- Subjects: 1970’s, New York, North America or North Americans, Northeast, U.S., United States or Americans, Authors or writers, New York City, Poetry or poets, Paris, Chicago, West, U.S., Kidnapping, Films, movies, or motion pictures, Eccentrics or eccentricities, Texas, Debtors or creditors, Madrid
- Locales: New York, NY, Paris, France, Chicago, IL, Madrid, Spain, Houston, TX, Corpus Christi, TX
Characters Discussed
Charles Citrine, a successful and acclaimed American author in his mid-fifties, living in Chicago. He has won the Pulitzer Prize and has been awarded the Legion of Honor, yet his career has become stale and he is reassessing his potential and his human relationships, past and present. He combines a subtle intellect and a strong sense of comic incongruity with a tolerant, mellow personality. Basically good-humored, he is attracted to eccentric and flashy characters, some of whom exist only in his capacious memory. Highly cultured and interested in...
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