Synopsis
This biography of the Nobel-Prize-winning writer Saul Bellow explores how the child of poor Russian Jewish imigrants became a world-famous author. It demonstrates how Bellow's work thrived on contradiction and adversity, and his belief in the unfettered human spirit.
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James Atlas is a long-time contributor to the New Yorker and was an editor at the New York Times Magazine for many years. His work has appeared in the New York Times Book Review, New York Review of Books, London Review of Books, Atlantic Monthly, Partisan Review and many other journals. He is the author of Delmore Schwartz: The Life of an American Poet, which was nominated for a National Book Award.
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Bellow, a Biography
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London, Faber And Faber , 2000, 2000
ISBN 10 : 0571143563
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Bellow : a biography / James Atlas
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London : Faber, 2000
ISBN 10 : 0571143563
ISBN 13 : 9780571143566
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First UK edition. Near fine cloth copy in a near-fine, very slightly edge-nicked dust-wrapper. Remains particularly and surprisingly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description; xiv, 686 pages, [32] pages of plates : ill. ; 24 cm. Notes; Includes index. Includes bibliographical references and index. Summary; This biography of the Nobel-Prize-winning writer Saul Bellow explores how the child of poor Russian Jewish imigrants became a world-famous author. It demonstrates how Bellow's work thrived on contradiction and adversity, and his belief in the unfettered human spirit. Review: Atlas's biography of Saul Bellow, surely America's greatest living novelist, has been ten years in the writing and has been awaited for a long time. Like many writers, Bellow has always been suspicious of biographers; but Atlas has always seemed particularly suited for the task. He knows Chicago and the complex Russian-immigrant Jewish culture, first in Montreal, then in the Second City, in which Bellow grew up, and which provided him with most of his essential fictional material. He is a serious critic of modern American writing, and the biographer of Delmore Schwartz, who was the Humboldt of Bellow's Humboldt's Gift. This is a fully detailed biography, a dense work of research, excellent on the cultural scene, the postwar emergence of American writing, and the social flavour of the times. Yet it also portrays a Bellow of many flaws: a compulsive womanizer, a competitive and jealous rival to other writers, a man of sharp reactions and bitter opinions. At times it is hard to remember that the biographer's subject is also the author of some of the greatest, wisest, soberingly analytical and philosophical of modern novels. What this book - which is splendidly written - does clearly show is the intensely autobiographical nature of all Bellow's large output of fiction, based as it is on brilliant cultural memory, an amazing gift for portraiture, and a loving desire to detail his own universe and its social and political textures, as well as a great moral and intellectual force. Now in his mid-80s, Bellow emerges from this colourful life as a grainy and remarkable figure, as well as the source of some of our finest works of fiction. Review by MALCOM BRADBURY (Kirkus UK). Subjects; Bellow, Saul Biography. Bellow, Saul 1915-2005. Novelists, American 20th century Biography. Novels, other prose & writers. Literary studies: from c 1900 -. French. BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / General. LITERARY CRITICISM / General. LITERARY CRITICISM / European / French. Genre; Biography. Illustrated. 3 Kg. N° de réf. du vendeur 239810
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Bellow : a biography / James Atlas
Edité par
London : Faber, 2000
ISBN 10 : 0571143563
ISBN 13 : 9780571143566
Ancien ou d'occasion
Couverture rigide
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First UK edition. Near fine cloth copy in a near-fine, very slightly edge-nicked dust-wrapper. Remains particularly and surprisingly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description; xiv, 686 pages, [32] pages of plates : ill. ; 24 cm. Notes; Includes index. Includes bibliographical references and index. Summary; This biography of the Nobel-Prize-winning writer Saul Bellow explores how the child of poor Russian Jewish imigrants became a world-famous author. It demonstrates how Bellow's work thrived on contradiction and adversity, and his belief in the unfettered human spirit. Review: Atlas's biography of Saul Bellow, surely America's greatest living novelist, has been ten years in the writing and has been awaited for a long time. Like many writers, Bellow has always been suspicious of biographers; but Atlas has always seemed particularly suited for the task. He knows Chicago and the complex Russian-immigrant Jewish culture, first in Montreal, then in the Second City, in which Bellow grew up, and which provided him with most of his essential fictional material. He is a serious critic of modern American writing, and the biographer of Delmore Schwartz, who was the Humboldt of Bellow's Humboldt's Gift. This is a fully detailed biography, a dense work of research, excellent on the cultural scene, the postwar emergence of American writing, and the social flavour of the times. Yet it also portrays a Bellow of many flaws: a compulsive womanizer, a competitive and jealous rival to other writers, a man of sharp reactions and bitter opinions. At times it is hard to remember that the biographer's subject is also the author of some of the greatest, wisest, soberingly analytical and philosophical of modern novels. What this book - which is splendidly written - does clearly show is the intensely autobiographical nature of all Bellow's large output of fiction, based as it is on brilliant cultural memory, an amazing gift for portraiture, and a loving desire to detail his own universe and its social and political textures, as well as a great moral and intellectual force. Now in his mid-80s, Bellow emerges from this colourful life as a grainy and remarkable figure, as well as the source of some of our finest works of fiction. Review by MALCOM BRADBURY (Kirkus UK). Subjects; Bellow, Saul Biography. Bellow, Saul 1915-2005. Novelists, American 20th century Biography. Novels, other prose & writers. Literary studies: from c 1900 -. French. BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / General. LITERARY CRITICISM / General. LITERARY CRITICISM / European / French. Genre; Biography. Illustrated. 1 Kg. N° de réf. du vendeur 239810
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Saul Bellow
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