Saul Bellow
Canadian-American novelist who won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1976. His novels brilliantly fuse Jewish-American intellectual life with the city and with big questions of meaning. Herzog and Humboldt's Gift are among the great American novels of the twentieth century.
Works
- The Adventures of Augie MarchPicaresque novel following a young man's adventures and search for meaning and love
- HerzogNovel of a man's intellectual crisis, failed relationships, and existential despair in America
- Henderson the Rain KingComic novel of an American millionaire seeking spiritual meaning in Africa and beyond
- Humboldt's GiftNovel about a man's affair and entanglement with a deceased friend's intellectual legacy
- Mr. Sammler's PlanetNovel of an elderly Jewish intellectual observing modern urban life with detached melancholy
- Seize the DayNovella about a divorced man's emotional crisis and encounter with his estranged son