More Die of Heartbreak | Characters
To explore the spectrum of the happiness, frustration, grief, and trauma generated by the search for love, Bellow offers a whole gallery of characters, each of whom illuminates a section of that broad range of experiences and emotions. The narrator, Kenneth Trachtenberg (this name may be Bellow's joke; Stanley Trachtenberg is a leading critic of the novelist's works), is a professor of Russian literature. Raised in Paris, he has returned to America, perhaps out of a masochistic desire to see his dreams of culture and a decent life shattered for good, perhaps to be near his uncle, Benn...
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