Seize the Day | Saul Bellow's Broadway
In the following excerpt, Cynthia Ozick explores Bellow's Seize the Day as a link to higher consciousness.
When Seize the Day first appeared, the old system was rally at work. Ah! How to describe it? Hunger, public hunger; and then excitement, argument, and, among writers, the wildly admiring disturbances of envy. A new book by Bellow! You lived by it, you absorbed it, you took it into your system....
There was ... another element in Bellow's prose—in the coloration of his mind—that could not be immediately detected, because it contradicted a taken-for-granted sentiment about human character: that the physical body is simply a shell for the nature hidden within, that what I...
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