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by Saul Bellow, Bellow
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AC
AC rated it 11 years ago
Astonishing... by FAR Bellow's most accomplished book. Tender, intelligent, passionate, death-haunted...of course, it is Bellow! -- perfectly constructed, far richer in both plot and character than one usually expects from Bellow... coherent...even the intellectual moments are so much more throughly...
Bettie's Books
Bettie's Books rated it 13 years ago
Opening - CORDE, WHO LED THE LIFE of an executive in America - wasn't a college dean a kind of executive? - found himself six or seven thousand miles from his base, in Bucharest, in winter, shut up in an old-fashioned apartment.I have been assiduously sipping some of this after meals as a strong sto...
The Library of Babel
The Library of Babel rated it 22 years ago
This is my favourite novel by Bellow.I've read it while I was at the university instead of studying to pass brilliantly one of the fundamental exams on semiotic we had.I think I've done a good choice.Bellow abandons Chicago and the US for a while in The Dean's December making a vivid and powerful po...
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