Saul Bellow

Mr. Sammler's Planet

Novel of an elderly Jewish intellectual observing modern urban life with detached melancholy

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Saul Bellow
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.

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