Word: herzog
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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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...
Augie was a lucky book, as Bellow admits: he has said that his method of writing it was to stand ready with buckets waiting to catch what came. Augie's wistful, cheerful, aimless adventuring won Bellow his first National Book Award (the second came for Herzog...
...Dining with Foreign Minister Abba Eban, he asked ex-General Chaim Herzog, former chief of military intelligence, when the Arab-Israeli conflict would end. When Eban tried to say something, Brown snapped: "I am not talking to you." Herzog, who is Eban's brother-in-law, said it would take a long time, then jokingly observed: "In any event, politicians like yourself will not hasten the process...
...Herzog: If we are going to listen to your advice, others will grin in a more unpleasant manner...
...Herzog: Silly questions get silly answers...