Saul Bellow: Letters by Saul Bellow (PDF)

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A never-before-published collection of letters – an intimate self-portrait as well as the portrait of a century. Saul Bellow was a dedicated correspondent until a couple of years before his death, and his letters, spanning eight decades, show us a twentieth-century life in all its richness and complexity. Friends, lovers, wives, colleagues, and fans all cross these pages. Some of the finest letters are to Bellow’s fellow writers-William Faulkner, John Cheever, Philip Roth, Martin Amis, Ralph Ellison, Cynthia Ozick, and Wright Morris. Intimate, ironical, richly observant, and funny, these letters reveal the influcences at work in the man, and illuminate his enduring legacy-the novels that earned him a Nobel Prize and the admiration of the world over. Saul Bellow: Letters is a major literary event and an important edition to Bellow’s incomparable body of work.

User’s Reviews

Reviews from Amazon users which were colected at the time this book was published on the website:

⭐Do you like letters? Get this book. Do you like Saul Bellow? Get this book.I am writing this from the perspective of someone who knew nothing about Saul Bellow or his writing. In fact, i do not read much at all. I am writing this as someone who loves writing letters. I love writing letters, as they give me the chance to let everything go and meditate on exactly one dear friend.I will reiterate – if you like letters, get this book.These are not all beautiful, well structured letters. Many are quite short notes saying “i’m working on my book” “i haven’t had a chance to read the article you sent me” or “ive moved to a new apartment”. Some are long meditations on his relationship with the recipient. They are all excellent. Very excellent.The only thing holding this back from perfection is more context. Some letters have a couple of sentences explaining why the letter was written but as someone who doesn’t know a thing about Saul Bellow (not even knowing what books he wrote or when) some sort of timeline and context would have made it a more rich reading experience.

⭐I read this after reading the letters of Elia Kazan because I’m doing some research trying to find a link between a novel by Bellow and one by Kazan that are strikingly similar in plot and characters, even though both novels are strongly autobiographical. Bellow has always been one of my favorite authors, but I was surprised to find that I liked him a lot less than Kazan. I can’t tell if the letters, which apparently represent only a small portion of Bellows’s output, misrepresent him, or whether I came to the reading biased by having read his son’s memoir and Kazan’s letters first, but Bellow comes across as pathetically self-pitying, seeing himself as the victim of women he once courted and loved. He is also very reactionary, politically. It’s really interesting to read the two letter collections side-by-side, though. These two men, both of whom were communist sympathizers in their youth, both of whom wrote plays and novels, and both of whom were such relentless womanizers, come off as very different. The only link I can find between them so far is Arthur Miller (and Marilyn Monroe).

⭐I purchased this book for my Father’s 75th birthday, and he absolutely loved it. He is an enormous fan of Bellow’s work, and will readily tell anyone that “Henderson the Rain King” is his favorite novel. This is no small thing considering the fact that he is an avid reader.He thoroughly enjoyed reading Bellow’s day to day writing in the form of his letters and found them no less enchanting than the author’s more formal works.While I did not read the book, I would highly recommend it as a gift to those who appreciate and enjoy Bellow’s work.

⭐I ordered http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B004Y6MUM2/ref=cm_cr_rev_prod_title Saul Bellow: Letters as a gift for my husband. NO WHERE in the description of the book was the note that it was a remaindered copy with the tell tale black mark across the pages on the bottom of the outside. While he certainly cares about the content of the material, just that one marker line devalues the book itself. Certainly it would have been simple to include that note on what was purported to be a new book. That meant I bought it assuming it was in pristine condition. Tsk, tsk.

⭐self enjoyment/book was used but I don’t think ever opened

⭐My book arrived in good time and in great condition. So far, it’s a great read. I’m pleased all around.

⭐One of the best collections of letters by a writer. Excellent read.

⭐Very interesting

⭐For me, an excellent book…..an absorbing account.

⭐Excellent book of letters–fascinating, funny. profound and highly readable.

⭐I am a fan of saul bellow and I read the novels with great interest and I read these letters with equal interest. IN the future in this day of the telephone one wonders whether there will be any future books of letters written by famous authors. That is a shame. This anthology of letters presents us with bellow the American jew as he tries seriously to become an American novelist and make survival money to his relations with his ex-wives and children. One also reads a little bit about the religious bellow how he first discovered jesus as a boy in the hospital awaiting operations how he read the new testament a book his parents didn’t want him to read and his own orthodox jew interpretation of jesus and this informs us of his views of the Christian world. He didn’t really like the anti jewish anti American stance of gore vidal or graham greene despite the fact he may have enjoyed their novels.But the book presents us with the criticism an American jew has of his surroundings and the world at large and how that American jew gave up on Marxism and socialism and discovered another path to live out his life on. What that pattern of life is is what youll discover if you read these letters as we uncover the real bellow behind the family problems he had in relationships and the problems he had with his wives and the great jewish idea of family he had in trying to bring up his sons.Bellow always remained a jew in everything he did and thought even his way of making himself present in the novel. This he preserves in these letters we get to uncover bellow’s way of being jewish as much as we may one day hope to uncover Philip roth’s ways of being jewish if the great writer should also release his letters if he has any. I’m a fan of both bellow and roth and their letters would make a great addition to any bookshelf if roth should ever release his letters. I enjoyed this book.

⭐作家の書簡集は、様々な事実の宝庫であり、当該作家の意外な素顔もほの見える情報が満載でもある。作家間の交流では、思いがけずベローのナマのコメントを傍聴することになり、興味は尽きない。

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