Word: sauls
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...this sense of the simple, Kelman at times is reminiscent of Saul Bellow. Like Bellow, his characters speak in complexities; also like Bellow, the best of them penetrate to the simple yet hard truths. At one point in Herzog, Moses Herzog, who traffics in complexities, recalls how his two older brothers pleaded with him not to cry at his father's funeral. And yet Herzog rejects these Reality Instructors, these practitioners of cool detachment, and sobs away unashamed, unabashedly uncertain of his role in a frightful world yet willing to come to some sort of terms with...
...Saul Bellow's introductory sketch of Berryman adds a great deal to the novel. It's a rare piece, full of quaint anecdotes of their shared careers at Princeton and the University of Minnesota. Bellow knew the writer as a man first--as the man whose gruff arrogance was only a cover up for the frail alcoholic who was unable to manage his life and finally had to take refuge in hospitals. Bellow's sensitivity reaches even deeper. For he knew John Berryman the poet as well: the "Huffy Henry...wicked and away" of the Dream Songs, the narcissistic writer...
...replaced altogether as principal spokesman. That would mean more exposure -and heat - for Deputy Press Secretary Gerald Warren, 42, a genial sort who seems to have won the season's most dubious assignment. "This White House," says Victor Gold, formerly Spiro Agnew's press secretary, "could make Saul of Tarsus look like an idiot in two days, with the things they give their spokesmen...
Although such perceptions can dazzle, the poles of this novel are fuzzily drawn. Yet whatever Recovery is not, it remains a compelling, scarcely disguised self-portrait of a resplendent mind. It is worthwhile alone for its insights into the alcoholic and suicidal character. As Berryman's friend Saul Bellow observes in an astutely touching foreword to the book, what the poet "needed for his art ... he drew out of his vital organs, out of his very skin. At last there was no more. Reinforcements failed to arrive." *Jane Howard
Marriage Revealed. Ann Fleischer Kissinger, 46, former wife of Diplomat Henry A. Kissinger (they were divorced in 1964) and mother of his two children; and Saul G. Cohen, 57, professor of chemistry at Brandeis University, a widower and father of two; on June...