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...SAMMLER'S PLANET by Saul Bellow. 313 pages. Viking...
There is nothing of the charlatan in Saul Bellow, and perhaps it is time to admit that he is a seer. The author of The Adventures of Angle March, Henderson the Rain King and Herzog observes his age with no excessive charity. Chaos? Yes. Senselessness? Yes. Disintegration and despair? Be the author's guest. The dour view itself is not remarkable. Well-wrought chaos and subtly evoked senselessness have never been in such abundant literary supply. A reader thinks, with varying respect, of Mailer, Heller, Vonnegut, Cheever, Barth...
...really offer them some hope. Wrote Columnist Pete Hamill, whose prose sometimes savors of Killarney chicken fat: "The hopes he aroused will be lying around our streets for more than a few seasons, wormy with betrayal, like the carcasses of abandoned dogs." As for Brody, he explained in a bellow to TIME'S Len Levitt: "I'll never be happy as long as there are wars, starving children. I'm just a big put-on. The world...
...Herzog, Saul Bellow, 1964 10. The First Circle, Alexander Solzhenitsyn...
...Muffled Bellow. By contrast, Europe is far ahead of the U.S. in noise abatement. Two years ago, Baron imported a muffled air compressor from Germany. With a well-honed sense of the dramatic, he demonstrated it beside the Metropolitan Opera House at Lincoln Center. Though the machine did not operate sotto voce, neither did it bellow. One U.S. manufacturer, Ingersoll-Rand, was sufficiently impressed to start producing a similar line of quiet compressors (from $30 to $4,500 more expensive than the unmuffled varieties...