Saul Bellow : Winner of the 1976 Nobel Prize in Literature
- Ivanka
- Apr 13, 2021
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Humboldt’s Gift
The main protagoinist of the story is Charlie Citrine, a a man with an passion for literature. As a young man, at his own request, he meets a famous writer Von Humboldt Fleisher. They become friends.
With the help of his friend Charlie’s career as a writer skyrocketed.
Charlie makes a lot of money through his writing, yet the success for which he yearned, and achieved, has turned to ashes.
When Fleisher dies, forgotten by everyone, Charlie remembers the moments they had spend together.
This is a novel of artistic friendship and rivalry. It explores the changes in their relationship.
"I got my revenge by succeeding."
Saul Bellow (born Solomon Bellows; 10 June 1915 – 5 April 2005) was a Canadian-American writer.
He was born in Lachine, Quebec, two years after his parents, emigrated from Saint Petersburg, Russia.
When Bellow was nine, his family moved to Chicago.
He attended the University of Chicago and received his Bachelor’s degree from Northwestern University in 1937.
Mr. Bellow’s first novel, Dangling Man, was published in 1944, and his second, The Victim, in 1947.
Bellow taught at Yale University, University of Minnesota, New York University, Princeton University, University of Puerto Rico, University of Chicago, Bard College and Boston University.
His best-known works include The Adventures of Augie March, Henderson the Rain King, Herzog, Mr. Sammler's Planet, Seize the Day, Humboldt's Gift and Ravelstein.
A playwright as well as a novelist, Saul Bellow is the author of The Last Analysis and of three short plays, collectively entitled Under the Weather, which were produced on Broadway in 1966.
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