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...Saul Bellow choose to fictionalize the life of his dear friend, the late Allan Bloom? Perhaps it is because the facts of Bloom's life require a hermeneutic to frame a relatively coherent picture...
...Bellow is the narrator of Ravelstein. He assumes the character of "Chick," long a friend to Ravelstein, an intensely intellectual professor at an elite Midwest university...
...Roth's new look meant to impress the Swedish Academy? Who knows, but who could blame him? Roth has already won every major book award, and literary-conspiracy theorists could point out that a wider world view may have helped Saul Bellow win a Nobel Prize in 1976. Like Bellow's Mr. Sammler's Planet and The Dean's December, The Human Stain makes a good case for the decline of humanism, civility and common sense. Roth also gives us a bleak look beneath the surface of the nation's current self-satisfaction. Silk's off-campus troubles include...
Some critics admire the novel's ability to focus on both Bloom and Bellow. Chick, the narrator in Ravelstien, can be viewed as a lose sketch of Bellow...
...Bellow has published novels, novellas and short stories. He was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in 1975 for his novel Humboldt's Gift, and received the Noble Prize in Literature the next year...