Saul Bellow's Heart: A Son's Memoir - Brossura

Bellow, Greg

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ISBN 10: 1608199975 ISBN 13: 9781608199976

Casa editrice: Bloomsbury USA, 2014

Riassunto

In this warm, affectionate, yet strikingly honest memoir, Greg Bellow offers a unique look inside the life of his father, one of America's greatest twentieth-century writers. Saul Bellow, the famous but fiercely private Nobel Prize winner, was known to be quick to anger and prone to argument, but he shared a tender bond with Greg, his firstborn.

In Saul Bellow's Heart, Greg gives voice to a side of Saul unknown to most, the "young Saul"-emotionally accessible, often soft, with a set of egalitarian social values and the ability to laugh at the world's folly and at himself. Saul's accessibility and lightheartedness waned as he aged, and his social views hardened. This is the "old Saul" most well known to the world, and these changes taxed the relationship between Bellow and his son, now an adult, so sorely that Greg often worried that it wouldn't survive. But theirs were differences of mind, not of the heart.

Interweaving memories, personal stories, and autobiographical references in Saul's books on which he can shed a unique light, Greg Bellow reveals himself to be a fine prose stylist and never shies away from the truth about his father.

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Saul Bellow's Heart is a fascinating personal document written with much sympathy, yet an admirable candor, by Bellow's eldest son Gregory, a psychotherapist. It is a portrait of the artist at close quarters, and at a little distance; a confirmation of the deep autobiographical roots of Bellow's fiction; and a revelation of what it means to be a child, in this case one of three sons, of the most lavishly acclaimed American writer of the second half of the 20th century. (Joyce Carol Oates)

[A] richly personal portrait.Replete with compelling inside-literature tales, this is a loving and exacting remembrance of a 'literary lion.' (Booklist)

Saul Bellow was an incandescent being, and also incandescently difficult. Greg Bellow has written a wrenchingly candid account of being his son - a real son, not a literary son: there is no self-invention here, there is only self-discovery. I was deeply moved by Greg Bellow's memoir of his passage from pain to acceptance. Amid the brutalities of love he has found its blessing. (Leon Wieseltier)

Bellow scholars will be arguing about Saul Bellow's Heart for three hundred years. (Gloria Cronin, Editor, Saul Bellow Journal)

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"A fascinating personal document written with much sympathy, yet an admirable candor." -Joyce Carol Oates

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• Editore: Bloomsbury USA
• Data di pubblicazione: 2014
• ISBN 10: 1608199975
• ISBN 13: 9781608199976
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 240