Humboldt’s Gift (Cyclopedia of Literary Places)
At a glance:
- Author: Saul Bellow
- First Published: 1975
- Type of Work: Novel
- Type of Plot: Psychological realism
- Time of Work: 1970’s
- 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
Places Discussed
*Chicago. Midwestern city where Charlie grew up and still lives. Chicago is also the home of his mistress, Renata, and his ex-wife, who calls Chicago a deadly, ugly, vulgar, and dangerous place. In American culture, Chicago is indelibly associated with gangsters, and Charlie has adventures involving a gangster, Rinaldo Cantabile, who has Charlie’s beautiful Mercedes bashed repeatedly with a baseball bat and who takes Charlie up to a girder high on an unfinished skyscraper, where he throws down money Charlie lost to him in a poker game. To escape from Chicago...
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