Saul Bellow

Charlie Citrine, suffering from steadily worsening troubles with women, career, and life, receives unexpected aid in the form of a belated bequest from his onetime friend and mentor, the poet Von Humboldt Fleisher.

Humboldt's Gift

Asa Leventhal, a Jewish magazine editor, is accused by an old acquaintance of ruining his life

A Novel

The Victim

Written in 1944, Dangling Man takes the form of the journal of a young man waiting to be drafted. He has received notice, but a series of mix-ups keeps him waiting for the official call to arms.

Dangling Man

Den 47-årige jødisk-amerikanske litteraturprofessor Moses Herzogs liv bryder sammen, da han opdager, at hans kone og hans bedste ven har en affære. I hovedet begynder han at skrive breve til venner, familie og forskellige berømtheder. Breve, han aldrig sender, men som alle udtrykker skuffelse med modtageren eller undskylder for den skuffelse, han selv har været for andre. "Herzog" regnes som et af Saul Bellows hovedværker. Romanen blev til som en slags hævn over Bellows anden kone og hans bedste ven, der bedrog ham. Den canadisk-amerikanske forfatter Saul Bellow (1915-2005) regnes blandt de største amerikanske forfattere efter 2. verdenskrig. Saul Bellow har været professor ved flere prominente amerikanske universiteter og har vundet mange prestigefulde priser for sine samfundskritiske romaner – heriblandt Nobelprisen i litteratur i 1976.

Herzog

Martin Amis

Modern Classics Humboldts Gift

Dean Corde is a man of position and authority at a Chicago university. He accompanies his wife to Bucharest where her mother, a celebrated figure, lies dying in a state hospital. As he tries to help her grapple with an unfeeling bureaucracy, news filters through to him of problems left behind in Chicago. A student has been murdered and Corde had directed that charges be pressed against two black youths, but controversy and pressure are mounting against the university administration. Further, a series of articles Corde had written has offended powerful and influential Chicagoans whom Corde had counted on as friends. Corde is troubled - at home the centre is not holding firm, in Eastern Europe authority is cruel and dehumanizing.

The Dean's December

This is the definitive collection of short stories by Saul Bellow. Abundant, precise, various, rich and exuberant, the stories display the stylistic and emotional brilliance which characterises this master of prose. Some stories recount the events of a single day, some are contained in a wider frame; each story is a characteristic combination of observation and a celebration of humanity. This volume contains a preface by his wife, Janis Bellow, and an introduction by James Wood. It is an essential collection.

Collected Stories

This dazzling collection of shorter fiction describes a series of self-awakenings -- a suburban divorcee deciding among lovers, a celebrity drawn into his cousin's life of crime, a father remembering bygone Chicago, an artist, and an academic awaiting extradition for some unnamed offense.

Him with His Foot in His Mouth and Other Stories

مغامرات أوجي مارتش

Neşe Olcaytu

Boşlukta sallanan adam

This collection of nonfiction work from the Nobel and Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Adventures of Augie March and Henderson the Rain King is arranged chronologically and includes his literary criticisms, interviews, speeches and insights and reflections.

Collected Nonfiction

There Is Simply Too Much to Think About

Benjamin Taylor

An extensive selection of previously unpublished correspondences by the late Nobel Prize- and three-time National Book Award-winning writer spans eight decades and includes letters written to such contemporaries as William Faulkner, Ralph Ellison and Cynthia Ozick.

Letters

She had lived by delays; she had meant to stop drinking; she had put off the time, and now she had smashed her car. At once harsh and tender, expansive and acutely funny, this is the story of an elderly and self-destructive dipsomaniac in a Western desert town, who finds herself faced with a final, impossible choice.

Leaving the Yellow House

Here you sit at dinner with charming people in a dining room like any other. Yet you know that your hostess has lost a son, that her sister lost children in the 1973 war - in the domestic ceremony of passed dishes and filled glasses the thoughts of a destructive enemy are hard to grasp. What you do know is that there is one fact of Jewish life left unchanged by the creation of a Jewish State - 'You cannot take your right to love for granted'.

A Personal Account

To Jerusalem and Back

Many years ago, Teddy gave Clara an emerald ring that she has cherished as a symbol of her passion for him. The ring is lost and after many years - eventually - discovered.

A Theft

Agarra o Dia

Mr. Sammler's Planet

O dilema de dois homens, cujos espíritos brilhantes não os salvam dos erros que todos nós conhecemos, é o pano de fundo para um dos grandes romances de Saul Bellow, Prémio Nobel da Literatura.
Por que será que as pessoas inteligentes e dotadas se encontram invariavelmente atoladas numa vida sentimental miserável? E por que será que os sobredotados, os intuitivos, os que são capazes de ler no livro dos mistérios da natureza são tão incautos e tolos?

Kenneth Trachtenberg, o narrador desta história, é um especialista em literatura russa, que deixa Paris rumo à América ao encontro do tio, Benn Crader, um botânico famoso. Benn, depois de um casamento falhado, sucessivas experiências e uma longa demanda erótica, acaba por assentar, casando-se com a belíssima Matilda Layamon - às escondidas do sobrinho. Matilda é filha de uma família abastada do Midwest, é muito ambiciosa, e tem metade da idade de Benn. E este casamento, ao invés das cândidas expectativas de Benn, vai trazer-lhe grandes dissabores e ainda maiores sofrimentos. As histórias amorosas de um e de outro, as muitas facetas da relação entre tio e sobrinho, as longas discussões que mantêm sobre os desígnios do amor e do desejo dão corpo a uma narrativa cheia de humor, inteligência e sabedoria.

Morrem Mais de Mágoa tem o humor ágil da farsa, mas são inseparáveis do seu enredo tragicómico as análises engenhosas do autor sobre a vida moderna e o dilema de dois homens cujos espíritos brilhantes não os salvam dos erros que todos nós conhecemos - e frequentemente cometemos.

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