Bellow, Saul
Bellow, Saul( 1915–2005),born in Canada of parents recently emigrated from Russia, was reared in Chicago and educated at the University of Chicago and at Northwestern (B.S., 1937). He has taught at Minnesota, Princeton, New York University, and elsewhere, but his career is that of a writer. His first two novels, presenting a Kafka-like atmosphere, are Dangling Man (1944), a psychological study of a man waiting to be inducted into the army and living in limbo between civilian and military life, and The Victim (1947), about the agonizing, equivocal relations of Jew and Gentile. His next novel, The Adventures of Augie March (1953), which won a National Book Award, is naturalistic in treating the picaresque adventures of a young Chicago Jew. Seize the Day (1956) includes a novella, stories, and a one-act play. Henderson the Rain King (1959) opens with a realistic depiction of an intense middle-age Connecticut millionaire whose...
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