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Long before the Swedish Academy chose him as the seventh* American to receive the Nobel Prize for Literature, Saul Bellow was in a fine position to judge-and make light of-official literary honors. He had won most of them already: honorary degrees, citations from governments and academies, three National Book Awards (a record), and, last May, a Pulitzer Prize for Humboldt 's Gift. At a brief press conference after the Nobel announcement, Bellow remarked characteristically, "I'm glad to get it. I could live without it." His fellow countrymen appeared more pleased. Not only had the Nobel...
Constant Questions. Yet Bellow's progress as a literary figure has in some ways been circuitous. Readers who like the raging energy and fantasy of Henderson the Rain King (1959) do not always thrill to the hothouse introspection of Herzog (1964). Those who can get along with the serious, well-mannered author of Dangling Man (1944) and The Victim (1947) are likely to gasp at the wisecracking Borscht Belt comic who hoofs onstage during parts of Humboldt's Gift. The picaresque hero of The Adventures of Augie March (1953) is a brash New World kid, while a wise...
Beneath the extraordinary range of Bellow's fiction, unifying his stretch from New World quest to Old World criticisms, from Rousseau to reason, lie several constant questions. How can a man lead a good life? What use is the new age's vaunted individuality if it turns society into a jungle and leaves human beings cut off from each other and the past? When he is advised to be himself, young Augie March replies: "I have always tried to become what I am. But what if what I am by nature isn't good enough?" Mr. Sammler...
Here and there were a leering face and a defiant bellow, but for the most part the convention was a scene of restrained certitude, the firm jaw-set of people who run things and have things. Ken Baker used to be a teacher, but the vision of affluence and independence beat strong in him, and in 1972 he started his now burgeoning business. The fear that brought him to Kansas City was that the Government, in its ineptitude, would rob him of his chance and his dreams...
...Bellow said that the MDC and the CCC hired experts to determine how to prevent any damage to the trees. She added that the studies resulted in 32 "very strict specifications" which guarantee that the trees will not be injured...