Word: bellovian
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Dangling Man and The Victim, the strange allegorical novel that followed, were fine apprentice novels. But it wasn't until Augie, his big and vigorous coming-of-age novel, that Bellow discovered his voice, a voice so distinctive that it would earn its own adjective: Bellovian. It combined the rhetoric of a precocious University of Chicago student with the exuberant syncopations of Chicago street talk--high...
...compare Bolton and the Nobel prizewinner may seem farfetched, but the woman behind Gal uses language with a Bellovian zest. She even has something of Bellow's broad moral overview. Gal is not about racism, feminism or victimization. The book enters the darkness of a "no-love family" without self-pity or bitterness and moves steadily toward the light. The sense of authentic experience eagerly seized is sharp on every page...
...injury for yourself. A devouring man devours all there is."), porcine Maxie of the sexual deviations ("if he should every be elected to office, he wouldn't put his hand on a Bible to take the oath, he'd put it on his cock")--we can see the classic Bellovian scenario shaping up: The world conspiring against the thinker with the twist this time of family acting the parts of conspirators...
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