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Following the pursuits of a lifelong dreamer, this National Book Award winner written on a grand scale is a heroic comedy that celebrates life, both fantastic and realistic. (NOTE: All Blackstone titles have library packaging.)

Mr. Sammler lasted through decades of the best and worst of human life. As he moves through the dangerous streets of New York, attentive to everything and appalled by nothing, he ponders the future of life on this planet.

Mr. Sammler lasted through decades of the best and worst of human life. As he moves through the dangerous streets of New York, attentive to everything and appalled by nothing, he ponders the future of life on this planet.

Saul Bellow's dazzling career has been marked with numerous literary prizes, including the 1976 Nobel Prize, and the Gold Medal for the Novel. His work includes Herzog, More Die of Heartbreak, Mosby's Memoirs and Other Stories, Mr Sammler's Planet, Seize The Day and the essay To Jerusalem and Back. He died in 2005.

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Pubblicato nel 1953, "Le avventure di Augie March" rappresenta una delle vette della produzione romanzesca di Bellow, la sua prima opera importante: un romanzo di formazione dalla forte componente autobiografica, popolato da una miriade di personaggi pittoreschi colti nel loro incessante movimento, in cui rivivono echi della tipica narrazione americana, soprattutto il tema twainiano della fuga, delle peripezie e dell'iniziazione dell'eterno ad...

Saul Bellow was born in 1915 to Russian ¿gr¿arents. He published his first novel, The Dangling Man, in 1944, this was followed, in 1947, by The Victim. In 1948 a Guggenheim Fellowship enabled Bellow to travel to Paris, where he wrote The Adventures of Augie March, published in 1953. Henderson The Rain King (1959) brought Bellow worldwide fame, and in 1964, his best-known novel, Herzog, was published and immediately lauded as a masterpiece, 'a ...

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»Komisch, lebendig, ironisch, spöttisch und klug, ein absolut wunderbarer Roman.« San Francisco Examiner Wie vergänglich der Ruhm in einer sensationslüsternen und geldorientierten Welt ist,   erfahren die Schriftsteller Von Humboldt Fleisher und Charlie Citrine auf tragikomische Weise. In seinem vielschichtigen Roman erzählt Saul Bellow von ihrem Leben und Schreiben, von Liebe und Leid. »>Humboldts Vermächtnis< ist die frechste von Bellows K...

Die Abenteuer des Augie March. Herzog. Humboldts Vermächtnis.Aus dem amerik. Engl. von Henning Ahrens, Walter Hasenclever und Eike Schönfeld.Alle drei Romane sind in ihrer Zeit verankert, spiegeln Teile der amerikanischen Gesellschaft wider, etwa während der Depression, der Eisenhower-Ära, der Kennedy-Zeit. Ob es nun um die alten jüdischen Frauen von der Southside Chicagos wie Oma Lausch mit ihrem stinkenden Pudel Winnie geht, um Gersbach mit ...

»Ein herrlicher Roman: düster-sarkastisch, komisch, ausschweifend und doch wunderbar konstruiert, sinnlich und äußerst intelligent.« Sunday Times Moses Elkanah Herzog steckt in einer tiefen Lebenskrise. Seine Ehe ist gescheitert, er hat seinen Universitätsjob verloren, er liegt mit sich und der Welt im Streit. Unter oft lächerlichen Umständen versucht er in einer Auseinandersetzung mit der eigenen Geschichte und den geistigen Strömungen seine...

»>Die Abenteuer des Augie March< ist der große amerikanische Roman.« Martin Amis Aus dem jüdischen Viertel Chicagos, wo er während der Depression in armseligen Verhältnissen aufwächst, bricht Augie March voller Neugier und Lebenslust auf in die Welt. Seine irrwitzigen Abenteuer, bei denen er eine Vielzahl schillernder Charaktere kennenlernt, führen ihn nach Mexiko, New York und schließlich nach Paris. »Ein Wunder an unbändiger, unerschütterl...

National Book Award winner, Herzog traces five days in the life of a man whose wife has recently left him for his best friend. Through the device of letter writing, Herzog movingly portrays both his own life and the complexity of modern life.

Saul Bellow's dazzling career as a novelist was celebrated during his lifetime with an unprecedented array of literary prizes and awards, including the Pulitzer Prize, three National Book Awards, and the Gold Medal for the Novel. In 1976 he was awarded a Nobel Prize 'for the human understanding and subtle analysis of contemporary culture that are combined in his work'. Bellow's death in 2005 was met with tribute from writers and critics around...

What Henry James did for the geographically disoriented, Bellow does for the culturally traumatized in the six stories gathered in this collection. Truly, Bellow is one of God's spies." -Los Angeles TimesA Penguin ClassicIn six darkly comic tales, Saul Bellow presents the human experience in all its preposterousness, poignancy, and pathos. In the title story, a professor well-known for his wit struggles to animate his memoirs as he teeters on ...

Saul Bellow's fiction, honored by a Nobel Prize and a Pulitzer, among other awards, has made him a literary giant. Now the man himself and a lifetime of his insightful views on a range of topics spring off the page in this, his first nonfiction collection, which encompasses articles, lectures, essays, travel pieces, and an "Autobiography of Ideas." It All Adds Up is a fascinating journey through literary America over the last forty years, guid...