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Novels by Saul Bellow (Study Guide): Ravelstein, the Adventures of Augie March, Herzog, the Victim, More Die of Heartbreak
Paperback. Books LLC 2010-09-14.
ISBN 9781155236711
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This is nonfiction commentary. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Ravelstein, the Adventures of Augie March, Herzog, the Victim, More Die of Heartbreak, Henderson the Rain King, Humboldt's Gift, Seize the Day, a Theft, Dangling Man, the Bellarosa Connection, the Dean's December, the Actual, Mr. Sammler's Planet. Source: Wikipedia. Free updates online. Not illustrated. Excerpt: Ravelstein is Saul Bellow's final novel. Published in 2000, when Bellow was eighty-five years old, it received widespread critical acclaim. It tells the tale of a friendship between two university professors and the complications that animate their erotic and intellectual attachments in the face of impending death. The novel is a roman à clef, written in memoir-form. The narrator is in Paris with Abe Ravelstein, a renowned professor, and Nikki, his lover. Ravelstein asks him to write a memoir about him after he dies, because he has AIDS. After his death, the narrator and his wife go on holiday to the Caribbean. The narrator catches a tropical disease and flies back to the United States in convalescence. Eventually, on recuperation, he decides to write the memoir. The title character, Ravelstein, is based on the philosopher Allan Bloom, who taught alongside Bellow at the University of Chicago's Committee on Social Thought. Remembering Bloom in an interview, Bellow said, "Allan inhaled books and ideas the way the rest of us breathe air... People only want the factual truth. Well, the truth is that Allan was a very superior person, great-souled. When critics proclaim the death of the novel, I sometimes think they are really saying that there are no significant people to write about." But "Allan was certainly one." The Death of Socrates by DavidDescribing the novel in his autobiography, Martin Amis wrote: "Ravelstein is a full-length novel. It ...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=1531357
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