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This Book is about a king who lives in a castle. He has a baker called Adrian.The King always eats eggs. Adrian makes the king chicken eggs,goose eggs,duck eggs.Then he shouts More More More! The Next day he read in hisNewspaper that a dodos egg was spotted on an island.So he told Adrian toprepare the boat.To get to The island. ... Read more

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This study of Saul Bellow, initially published in 1982, looks at this Nobel Prize-winning author as a leading figure in the development of contemporary fiction, one whose work has, however, been challenged by more experimental, ‘post-modern’ developments in the novel.

Bradbury draws attention to Bellow’s comedy, his sense of contemporary history and its stresses and anxieties, his attempt to sustain an adequate concept of the individual and the power of the imagination in an age of overwhelming concepts and notions of ‘death of the subject’. Above all, emphasis is placed on Bellow’s contemporaneity and significance, his role in the contemporary possibilities of the novel.

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The sad story of falling for the star
As an up-and- coming literary agent fresh out of university young Harriet Wasserman met the already distinguished and famous writer, Saul Bellow. He flirted with her, courted her, and made of her his devotee. She for many years thereafter was his loyal literary - agent until he dropped her for another.
Out of pain and disappointment she tells the tale of their relationship.
It is an interesting inside look at the world of the agent, the world of publishing. And it confirms a certain picture of Bellow given in James Atlas' monumental biography i.e. Bellow knew how to be very good to Bellow. And there were not a few women disappointed by his giving them his attention, and then moving on.
What would be sad , and I do not know if this is the case, is if this story is the main narrative of the author's life.
Wisdom, I would suggest , is never in building one's life and hope around such ' star characters'. They invariably disappoint.

No one defines "male" so clearly as Harriet Wasserman.
Saul Bellow may be famous, may be genius, may be alot of otherthings, but in the end, he is just another stunningly selfish jerk whoused a talented lady the way he used Kleenex.Never mind that withouther he would just be another has-been hack writer.Wasserman'srevenge is in letting the man reveal himself for who he truly is.You'llwant to give her a standing ovation. You'll also have fun readingabout how ordinary selfish jerks can win all sorts of prizes for writingand you'll end up hoping the Jackal who now represents Saul Bellowgets the kind of revenge HE deserves as well.Wasserman's writing styleis a bonus.......spare, subtle, witty.Her silent sword hits the spot! ... Read more

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This book discusses works by F. Scott Fitzgerald and Saul Bellow in terms of the conflicts between rhetorical people (actors replete with ever-changing roles, situations, and strategies, and therefore devoid of single roles) and serious people (actors who possess master situations or a referent reality to which they believe everyone can refer), players and doers, artifices and realities, words and the world, and multivocal and univocal interpretations. This book claims that Fitzgerald's and Bellow's treatment of the concepts of actors and acting in their novels provides insights into the dynamic potential of the trope as presented by recent critics and reveals how some literary theories need refinement and modification. ... Read more

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An introduction to post-war American novelist Saul Bellow's writing. The author considers all of Bellow's novels and most of his short stories, locating them within the context of the novelist's own life and the history of the period during which they were written. ... Read more

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This is a study revealing Saul Bellow's views on the decline of humanism. With chapters on each of Bellow's novels from "Dangling" to "More Die of Heartbreak", the author argues that Bellow's vision of modern American culture denies the possibility of humanist enlightenment for his heroes. Confronted by the materially-driven, spiritually impoverished reality of American life, they are increasingly forced into withdrawal and isolation from the fallen community around them. ... Read more

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Saul Bellow and American Transcendentalism explores Saul Bellow's moral and philosophical affinity with the writers of American transcendentalism, especially Emerson and Whitman. Its focus is on the "vintage" Bellow, or his "mature" novels, from Henderson the Rain King (1959) to The Dean's December (1982). In these novels, Bellow highlights a moral crisis, arising from humankind's despiritualization and dehumanization, which, he believes, is responsible for an ongoing dichotomy in the modern world. Bellow describes this as a dichotomy of the "Cleans" and the "Dirties," in the context of American culture. To rectify this dichotomy and redeem humankind from its current "death-ridden" state, Bellow and his protagonists advance a vision of life that corresponds to the transcendental vision of dialogue and "double consciousness," or coordination and balance. Like Emerson, they advocate, "The mid-world is best.... A man is a golden impossibility; the line he must walk is a hair's breadth." Comparable to Whitman, they urge the individual to "knit the knot of contrariety" and act as "an arbiter of the diverse." ... Read more