Bellow's People: How Saul Bellow Made Life into Art - Couverture rigide

Mikics, David

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0393246876 ISBN 13 : 9780393246872

Editeur : WW Norton & Co, 2016

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur :

David Mikics has been hailed by Harold Bloom as one of our finest literary critics. In this fresh and revealing book, he examines Saul Bellow's work through the real-life relationships and friendships that Bellow transmuted into the genius of his art. The book is divided into eight chapters on some of the extraordinary people who mattered most to Bellow-family members like his irascible brother Morrie; friends like the novelists and critics Ralph Ellison, Delmore Schwartz, and Allan Bloom; and wives and lovers. Bellow's People is a perfect introduction to Bellow's life and work, and an incisive study of the art of literature. As Mikics argues, "Bellow is our novelist of personality in all its wrinkles, its glories and shortcomings. Only through personality, he tells us, can we know the world."

Revue de presse :

"...a breezy, highly readable and often entertaining study of some important figures in the author's life..." --Jay Parini, Literary Review

"Mikics...[goes] some way to prove that what Bellow achieved was to get down into the real soul of people and shed light into the complexities of their personality. The book also makes one want to rediscover Bellow's characters in all their Dickensian, tragi-comic brilliance, and read again his sentences, which shine with a rare intensity." --The National

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: WW Norton & Co
• Date d'édition: 2016
• ISBN 10: 0393246876
• ISBN 13: 9780393246872
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 270