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  • Saul Bellow dead at 89

    Nobel prize winning novelist Saul Bellow is dead.

    He was a great one of American letters, and was someone who through his art, transformed the experiences of American Jewish immigrants and children of immigrants into lessons on the universal human condition.


    Ive read Herzog, Humboldts Gift, More Die of Heartbreak (which i particularly liked) and several short stories/novellas (Him with his Foot in his Mouth, IIRC)
    "A person cannot approach the divine by reaching beyond the human. To become human, is what this individual person, has been created for.” Martin Buber

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    I've read 'Seize the Day' 'Dangling Man' and 'To Jerusalem and Back' and 'Mr. Sammler's Planet'.

    Although I thought he was a good writer, I didn't like his work that much- I prefer Roth or Richler, Parker and Perelman...
    Vive la liberte. Noor Inayat Khan, Dachau.

    ...patriotism is not enough. I must have no hatred or bitterness towards anyone. Edith Cavell, 1915

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      Originally posted by molly bloom
      I've read 'Seize the Day' 'Dangling Man' and 'To Jerusalem and Back' and 'Mr. Sammler's Planet'.

      Although I thought he was a good writer, I didn't like his work that much- I prefer Roth or Richler, Parker and Perelman...
      I started To Jerusalem and Back, and didnt make it very far - he was a better novelist than political writer, despite his interests in larger social and political issues, I think. Seize and Dangling Man were early efforts. Ive never read Mr. Sammlers Planet.

      I really recommend "More Die of Heartbreak" very highly - youve got Chicago politics, botany, pre-WW1 Russian neo-Hegelian thought, and two perverse love stories. All wound together in a novel with driving force and brilliant language.
      "A person cannot approach the divine by reaching beyond the human. To become human, is what this individual person, has been created for.” Martin Buber

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      • #4
        Originally posted by lord of the mark


        I really recommend "More Die of Heartbreak" very highly - youve got Chicago politics, botany, pre-WW1 Russian neo-Hegelian thought, and two perverse love stories. All wound together in a novel with driving force and brilliant language.

        I look forward to your screenplay for the Hallmark Movie of the Week version.... pity Michael Landon's dead and can't star in it.




        Anyway: Saul Bellow: respect.
        Vive la liberte. Noor Inayat Khan, Dachau.

        ...patriotism is not enough. I must have no hatred or bitterness towards anyone. Edith Cavell, 1915

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        • #5
          I read Seize the Day.
          Christianity: The belief that a cosmic Jewish Zombie who was his own father can make you live forever if you symbolically eat his flesh and telepathically tell him you accept him as your master, so he can remove an evil force from your soul that is present in humanity because a rib-woman was convinced by a talking snake to eat from a magical tree...

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