Saul Bellow

nullSaul Bellow Saul Bellow null ''for many years, Mozart was a kind of idol to me -- this rapturous singing for me that's always on the edge of sadness and melancholy and disappointment and heartbreak, but always ready for an outburst of the most delicious music.'' —by Saul Bellow ContentContentPersonal experience Works Achievements Characters Personal ExperiencePersonal Experience Saul Bellow (June 10, 1915 – April 5, 2005) was a Canadian-born American writer. He was born in Lachine, Quebec, a suburb of Montreal, and was raised in Chicago. He attended the University of Chicago, received his Bachelor's degree from Northwestern University in 1937, with honors in sociology and anthropology, did graduate work at the University of Wisconsin, and served in the Merchant Marine during World War II. Work ListWork ListDangling Man (1944) The Victim (1947) The Adventures of Augie March (1953) Seize the Day (1956) Henderson the Rain King (1959) (the one most like himself) Herzog (1964) Mosby's Memoirs (short stories also available in Collected Stories) (1968) Mr. Sammler's Planet (1970) Humboldt's Gift (1975), won the 1976 Pulitzer Prize The Dean's December (1982) Him with His Foot in His Mouth (short stories also available in Collected Stories) (1984) More Die of Heartbreak (1987) A Theft (1989) The Bellarosa Connection (1989) Something to Remember Me By: Three Tales (collecting the eponymous short story, A Theft and The Bellarosa Connection) (1991) The Actual (1997) Ravelstein (2000) Collected Stories (2001) nullLooking for Mr. Green Looking for Mr. Green The story is set in Chicago in the depressed 1930s. The third-person narrative follows George Grebe, a thirty-five-year-old lecturer of classical languages, in his new job of delivering relief checks to disabled people in the black district. Grebe comes from a poor family. His father sent him to study chemical engineering but when he died, Grebe changed for Latin. He has experienced bad luck in his life. The Depression reduced him to a series of odd jobs as a salesman and it took him long to find the job at the relief office through the assistance of a friend. His superior, the young Mr Raynor, has a diploma in law and all he gets is few dollars more for his wage than Grebe. The lives of both have been negatively affected by the crisis. Henderson the Rain KingHenderson the Rain King The novel examines the midlife crisis of Eugene Henderson, an unhappy millionaire. The story concerns Henderson's search for meaning. A larger-than-life 55-year-old who has accumulated money, position, and a large family, he nonetheless feels unfulfilled. He makes a spiritual journey to Africa, where he draws emotional sustenance from experiences with African tribes. Deciding that his true destiny is as a healer, Henderson returns home, planning to enter medical school. a kind of wildly delirious dream made real by the force of Bellow’s rollicking prose and the offbeat inventiveness of his language " Chicago Tribune a Bellow ‘s aura of fable is constantly washed over by humor, impulsive creation, and actual, turbulent detail "AchievementsAchievements Pulitzer Prize for Fiction( 1976 ) Humboldt's Gift National Medal of Arts( 1988) Herzog and Mr. Sammler's Planet National Book Award (1954, 1965, 1971) The Adventures of Augie March Nobel Prize in Literature (1976) the mixture of rich picaresque novel and subtle analysis of our culture, of entertaining adventure, drastic and tragic episodes in quick succession interspersed with philosophic conversation, all developed by a commentator with a witty tongue and penetrating insight into the outer and inner complications that drive us to act, or prevent us from acting, and that can be called the dilemma of our agenullIn 1965 Mr. Bellow was awarded International Literary Prize for Herzog, becoming the first American to receive the prize In January 1968 the Republic of France awarded him the Croix de Chevalier des Arts et Letters , the highest literary distinction awarded by that nation to non-citizens In March 1968 he received the B'nai B'rith Jewish Heritage Award for "excellence in Jewish literature“ In November 1976 he was awarded the America's Democratic Legacy Award of the Anti-Defamation League of B'nai B'rith, the first time this award has been made to a literary personage. CharactersCharacters His characters are humorous, charming, a bit disillusioned, and slightly neurotic He echo the ideas of isolation, spiritual dissociation, and the importance of the human awakening He is a potent mix of intellectual dreamers and street-smart confidence men The author's works speak to the disorienting nature of modern civilization, and the countervailing ability of humans to overcome their frailty and achieve greatnessnull And his own writing embraced the exuberant and the depressive, the rapturous and the dispiriting. — Michiko Kakutani ''to close the gap between Thomas Mann and Damon Runyon.'' — Philip Roth (he captured a huge slice of American life )Highlights from the ArchivesHighlights from the ArchivesA Writer Captivated By the Chaos Of New York ——By JOSEPH BERGER Saul Bellow, America's Poet Of Urbanity——By A.O. SCOTT A Ten-Volume Look at Jewish Culture——By PATRICIA COHEN ‘Barney’s Version’ With Paul Giamatti – Review——By A. O. 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