Word: sorella
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...with and preceded by Balanchine’s groundbreaking “Serenade.” With its simple elegance and timeless plot, “Serenade” was, of the two pieces, the true gem, outshining “La Sylphide” in its choreography (by Sorella Englund after August Bournonville) and performance...
Retired and a widower, he tries to recollect the odd story of Harry Fonstein, the nephew of his father's second wife. He has not seen Harry and his wife Sorella for 30 years, but he finds them disturbingly memorable. Harry had reached the U.S. through bizarre circumstances. Barely escaping his native Poland ahead of the Nazis, he finally fetched up in Rome, only to be arrested by Mussolini's police. Soon, he was approached by an Italian man and given instructions on how to walk out of jail, go to Genoa and get on a ship bound for freedom...
Harry, newly arrived in the U.S. and married to the American-born Sorella, would like to thank his benefactor. But Rose, a glutton for publicity in all other aspects, will not see Harry or acknowledge his letters. And how does the narrator know all this? Through the confidences of Sorella, immensely fat ("She was biologically dramatized in waves and scrolls of tissue") and enormously dedicated ("a tiger wife") to the well-being of her husband. Harry eventually gives up hope of thanking Rose, but his spouse does...
Bellow's spokesman happens to be on the scene, at the King David Hotel in Jerusalem in 1959, when Sorella manages to arrange a showdown with her husband's savior. She tells all, of course. Her description of the crucial encounter, both poignant and hilarious, settles nothing except the certainty that Broadway Billy Rose will do anything to avoid receiving an expression of gratitude by Polish immigrant Harry Fonstein...
...Step, "La Sorella...