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HERZOG, by Saul Bellow. This long-awaited novel will not quite establish Bellow in his long-reserved place in the U.S. literary pantheon. Though the writing and the characterizations are often brilliant, and each single page is a delight. Anti-Hero Herzog is too passive and maudlin to carry a plot to a wholly satisfactory conclusion...
HERZOG by Saul Bellow. 341 pages. Viking...
...that Saul Bellow is just too nice a guy. He obviously wishes the world well; he wants the world to be pleased with him; and this benevolence, or "potato love," as Bellow calls it, may have damaged the work of a writer who has long been on the threshold of the U.S. literary pantheon but has never quite managed the "big" novel that would put him there permanently...
...London hall last week a group of angry investors bitterly chanted Handel's "Dead March" from Saul, and an accountant rose to read solemnly from a 75-page report. It was the Doomsday Book of Rolls Razor Ltd., the base of John Bloom's washing-machine empire -and it contained some shockers. Britons knew that Bloom had fallen badly, but no one had guessed quite how badly. Citing examples of incredibly slovenly bookkeeping, the report revealed that Rolls Razor, whose assets in bankruptcy are only $2,100,000, is in the hole to creditors for $11 million...
...Novelist Saul Bellow's first play, The Last Analysis, is about a top comedian (Sam Levene) who is slipping past prime time. Ruth Gordon has written A Very Rich Woman for herself to star in and Husband Garson Kanin to direct. Luv is about what it sounds, and stars Anne Jackson, Eli Wallach and Alan Arkin. A typist and a taxi driver, played by Betty Garrett and Pat Hingle, have a hectic courtship in Don Appell's A Girl Could Get Lucky. The Owl and the Pussycat marks a milestone of sorts by casting Negro Actress Diana Sands...