The Life of Saul Bellow, Volume 2: Love and Strife, 1965-2005, Leader Zachary

Автор: Leader Zachary
Название: The Life of Saul Bellow: Love and Strife, 1965-2005
ISBN: 110187516X ISBN-13(EAN): 9781101875162
Издательство: Random House (USA)
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Описание: When this second volume of The Life of Saul Bellow opens, Bellow, at forty-nine, is at the pinnacle of American letters - rich, famous, critically acclaimed. The expected trajectory is one of decline: volume 1, rise; volume 2, fall. Bellow never fell, producing some of his greatest fiction (Mr Sammler's Planet, Humboldt's Gift, all his best stories), winning two more National Book Awards, a Pulitzer Prize, and the Nobel Prize.

At eighty, he wrote his last story; at eighty-five, he wrote Ravelstein. In this volume, his life away from the desk, including his love life, is if anything more dramatic than in volume 1. In the public sphere, he is embroiled in controversy over foreign affairs, race, religion, education, social policy, the state of culture, the fate of the novel.

Bellow's relations with women were often fraught.

In the 1960s he was compulsively promiscuous (even as he inveighed against sexual liberation). The women he pursued, the ones he married and those with whom he had affairs, were intelligent, attractive and strong-willed. At eighty-five he fathered his fourth child, a daughter, with his fifth wife.

His three sons, whom he loved, could be as volatile as he was, and their relations with their father were often troubled.

Although an early and engaged supporter of civil rights, in the second half of his life Bellow was angered by the excesses of Black Power. An opponent of cultural relativism, he exercised great influence in literary and intellectual circles, advising a host of institutes and foundations, helping those he approved of, hindering those of whom he disapproved. In making his case, he could be cutting and rude; he could also be charming, loyal, and funny.

Bellow's heroic energy and will are clear to the very end of his life. His immense achievement and its cost, to himself and others, are also clear.

Автор: Leader, Zachary
Название: The Life of Saul Bellow
ISBN: 0099598159 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780099598152
Издательство: Random House - Penguin
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Описание: Since its debut in 1990, the internet has seen over a billion web pages-but it wasn`t always sleek interfaces. In this visual tour through history, trace the very earliest examples of what we today take for granted, from the first website to use surround sound to the first `upload-your-face` function and YouTube-like page. Complete with year-by-...

Автор: Leader, Zachary
Название: Life of Kingsley Amis
ISBN: 0224062271 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780224062275
Издательство: Random House - Penguin
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Описание: Argues that Kingsley Amis was not only the finest comic novelist of his generation, but a dominant figure in post-war British writing, as novelist, poet, critic and polemicist. This biography gives a picture of his childhood, school days, life as a teacher, critic, political and cultural commentator, professional author, husband, father and lover.