Mosby’s Memoirs (Masterplots II: Short Story Series, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Saul Bellow
- First Published: 1968
- Type of Plot: Psychological
- Time of Work: About 1962
- Setting: South-central Mexico
- Principal Characters: Willis Mosby, Hyman Lustgarten, Trudy Lustgarten, Alfred Ruskin, Klonsky
- Genres: Psychological fiction, Short fiction
- Subjects: History, 1960’s, Memory, Intellectuals, Communism or communists, France or French people, Twentieth century, Authors or writers, World War II, Paris, Historians, Mexico or Mexicans, Nazism or Nazis, Presidents
- Locales: Mexico
The Story
Dr. Willis Mosby is in Oaxaca, Mexico, on a grant from the Guggenheim Foundation, writing his memoirs. Mosby's memoirs depict him as one of the brightest, most observant people in the twentieth century. He is “erudite, maybe even profound; [had] thought much, accomplished much—had made some of the most interesting mistakes a man could make in the twentieth century.”
Mosby thinks that he must now put some humor into his memoirs. He has told about his early life: shaking hands with Generalissimo Francisco Franco during the Spanish Revolution; having...
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