Книга: Saul Bellow «Saul Bellow»
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Saul Bellow
Infobox Writer
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birthname = Solomon Bellows
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nationality = American
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Saul Bellow, born Solomon Bellows (
Bellow is best known for writing novels that investigate isolation, spiritual dissociation, and the possibilities of human awakening. Bellow drew inspiration from
Biography
Early life
He was born Solomon Bellows (nicknamed 'Sollie') in
Education and early career
Bellow attended the
In the 1930s, Bellow was part of the Chicago branch of the WPA Writer's Project, which included such future Chicago literary luminaries as Richard Wright and
In 1941 Bellow became a naturalized American citizen. [cite book
last = Slater
first = Elinor
coauthors = Robert Slater
title = Great Jewish Men
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chapter = SAUL BELLOW: Winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature
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During World War II, Bellow joined the merchant marine and during his service he completed his first novel, "
From 1946 through 1948 Bellow taught at the University of Minnesota, living on Commonwealth Avenue, in St. Paul, Minnesota. [http://www.saulbellow.org/NavigationBar/LifeandWorks.html]
In 1948, Bellow was awarded a
Returns to Chicago
Bellow lived in New York for a number of years, but he returned to Chicago in 1962 as a professor at the Committee on Social Thought at the University of Chicago. The committee's goal was to have professors work closely with talented graduate students on a multi-disciplinary approach to learning. Bellow taught on the committee for more than 30 years.
There were also other reasons for Bellow's return to his home turf of Chicago, where he moved into the Hyde Park neighborhood with his third wife, Susan Glassman. Bellow found Chicago to be vulgar but vital, and more representative of America than New York. [The New York Times Book Review, December 13, 1981] He was able to stay in contact with old high school friends and a broad cross-section of society. In a 1982 magazine profile, Bellow's neighborhood was described as a high-crime area in the city's center, and Bellow maintained he had to live in such a place as a writer and "stick to his guns." [Vogue, March 1982]
Bellow hit the bestseller list in 1964 with his novel "Herzog". Bellow was surprised at the commercial success of this cerebral novel about a middle-aged and troubled college professor who writes letters to friends, scholars and the dead, but never sends them. Bellow returned to his exploration of mental instability, and its relationship to genius, in his 1975 novel "
Wins Nobel Prize
Propelled by the success of "Humboldt's Gift", Bellow won the
Bellow traveled widely throughout his life, mainly to Europe, which he sometimes visited twice a year. [Atlas, James. "Bellow." New York: Random House, 2000] As a young man, Bellow went to
His many friends included the journalist
While sales of Bellow's first few novels were modest, that turned around with "Herzog" and he eventually was in a position not needing to teach for a living. But Bellow continued teaching well into his old age, enjoying its human interaction and exchange of ideas. He taught at the
Bellow was married five times, with all but his last marriage ending in divorce. His son by his second marriage, Adam, published a nonfiction work titled "In Praise of Nepotism" in 2003. In order, Bellow's wives were Anita Goshkin, Alexandra Tsachacbasov, Susan Glassman, Alexandra Ionescu Tulcea and Janis Freedman. In 1999, at the age of 84, Bellow and his fifth wife, Janis, had a daughter (his fourth child).
While he read voluminously, Bellow also had less bookish pursuits; including playing the violin and following sports. Work was a constant for him, but he at times toiled at a plodding pace on his novels, frustrating the publishing company. [Atlas, James. "Bellow." New York: Random House, 2000]
His early works earned him the reputation as one of the foremost novelists of the 20th century, and by his death he was regarded by some as the greatest living novelist in English. He was the first novelist to win the
Themes and style
The author's works speak to the disorienting nature of modern civilization, and the countervailing ability of humans to overcome their frailty and achieve greatness (or at least awareness). Bellow saw many flaws in modern civilization, and its ability to foster madness, materialism and misleading knowledge. [Malin, Irving. "Saul Bellow's Fiction." Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 1969] Principal characters in Bellow's fiction have heroic potential, and many times they stand in contrast to the negative forces of society. Often these characters are Jewish and have a sense of alienation or otherness.
Jewish life and identity is a major theme in Bellow's work, although he bristled at being called a "Jewish writer." Bellow's work also shows a great appreciation of America, and a fascination with the uniqueness and vibrancy of the American experience.
Stylistically, Bellow crammed his works with references and quotes from the likes of Marcel Proust and Henry James, but he offset these high-culture references with jokes of the kind comedian Henny Youngman might tell. [The New York Times, April 6, 2005] Bellow interspersed autobiographical elements into his fiction, and many of his principal characters were said to bear stark resemblance to their author.
Criticism and controversy
Bellow's detractors considered his work conventional and old-fashioned, as if the author was trying to revive the 19th century European novel.
Wrote Sam Tanenhaus:
Although Tanenhaus goes on to write:
Bellow's account of his own 1975 trip to Israel, "To Jerusalem and Back: A Personal Account", was criticized by
Although never beholden to any single political school of thought, Bellow gravitated away from leftist politics and became identified with neoconservatives. [Atlas, James. "Bellow." New York: Random House, 2000] His opponents included feminists, campus revolutionaries and postmodernists, and he thrust himself into the often contentious realm of Jewish and African-American relations. In "
In an interview in the March 7, 1988 "New Yorker", Bellow sparked a controversy when he asked, concerning
Despite his identification with Chicago, he kept aloof from some of that city's more conventional writers.
Quotations
" [There is] an immense, painful longing for a broader, more flexible, fuller, more coherent, more comprehensive account of what we human beings are, who we are and what this life is for." [Saul Bellow's [http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1976/bellow-lecture.html Nobel Lecture] , December 12, 1976.]
"I feel that art has something to do with the achievement of stillness in the midst of chaos. A stillness which characterizes prayer, too, and the eye of the storm. I think that art has something to do with an arrest of attention in the midst of distraction." [Alfred Kazin and George Plimpton (eds.), "Writers at Work: The Paris review interviews, Volume 3". New York, NY: Viking Press, 1967. ISBN 0-67079-096-6.]
"A great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need for illusion is deep." [Saul Bellow, "To Jerusalem and Back: A personal account", p. 127. Penguin Classics, 1976. ISBN 0-14118-075-7.]
"People can lose their lives in libraries. They ought to be warned." [Quoted in Steven Gilbar, "The Reader's Quotation Book: A literary companion". Wainscott, NY: Pushcart Press, 1990. ISBN 0-91636-664-2.]
Bibliography
Fiction
* "
* "The Victim" (1947)
* "
* "Seize the Day" (1956)
* "
* "Herzog" (1964)
* "Mosby's Memoirs" (short stories also available in "Collected Stories") (1968)
* "
* "
* "
* "Him with His Foot in His Mouth" (short stories also available in "Collected Stories") (1984)
* "
* "
* "
* "Something to Remember Me By: Three Tales" (collecting the eponymous short story, "A Theft" and "The Bellarosa Connection") (1991)
* "The Actual" (1997)
* "
* "Collected Stories" (2001)
Essays
* "To Jerusalem and Back" (1976)
* "It All Adds Up" (1994)
Editorialship
* "
* "Editors" ( [http://www.tobypress.com/books/editors.htm Publisher's information] )
* "ANON"
* "The Noble Savage"
On Bellow
* "Saul Bellow", Tony Tanner (1965) (see also his "City of Words" [1971] )
* "Saul Bellow",
* "Saul Bellow: Modern Critical Views",
* "Handsome Is: Adventures with Saul Bellow", Harriet Wasserman (1997)
* "Saul Bellow and the Decline of Humanism", Michael K Glenday (1990)
* "Bellow: A Biography",
* "Even Later" and "The American Eagle" in
* 'Saul Bellow's comic style': James Wood in "The Irresponsible Self: On Laughter and the Novel", 2004. ISBN 0224064509. ( [http://www.tnr.com/111300/wood111300.html Online extract] )
* "The Hero in Contemporary American Fiction: The Works of Saul Bellow and Don DeLillo ", Stephanie Halldorson (forthcoming December 2007)
Published as
* "Novels 1944-1953: Dangling Man, The Victim, The Adventures of Augie March" (James Wood, ed.) (
* "Novels 1956-1964: Seize the Day, Henderson the Rain King, Herzog" (
ee also
*
References
External links
* [http://city-journal.org/2008/18_2_urb-sammler.html Mr. Sammler's City, "City Journal," Spring 2008]
* [http://nobelprize.org/literature/laureates/1976/index.html Nobel site with two speeches (one of which is an audio recording) & longer biography]
* [http://saulbellow.org/NavigationBar/titlepage.html Annotated Bibliography of Criticism] by the Saul Bellow Society
* [http://www.hwwilson.com/Print/10bellowsa.html Bellow's 1955 autobiographical statement for reference book]
* [http://www.nybooks.com/articles/17110 JM Coetzee on the early novels]
* [http://slate.com/id/2116446 "Slate"'s assortment of other writers' takes on Bellow,] mostly eulogistic
* [http://jco.usfca.edu/onbellow.html Joyce Carol Oates on Saul Bellow]
* [http://www.the-ledge.com/flash/ledge.php?prsn=65&lan=UK Saul Bellow 'Bookweb' on literary website The Ledge, with suggestions for further reading.]
* [http://www.languagehat.com/archives/001827.php Blogpost on Bellow's Russian family name–Belo or Belov?]
* [http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2092-1562185,00.html Saul Bellow, a neocon’s tale] by
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