Herzog

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• King Saul

  Saul Bellow is the most rewarding of living American novelists. Even when he is only clever, he has a kind of spirited intellectual vanity that enables him to take on all the facts and theories about the pathetic and comically exposed condition of ci ... (read full critics)

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  Herzog by Saul Bellow (2003)

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  'Herzog', published 1964, has a real sixties flavour - and that's a good thing. The anti-hero Herzog, is simultaneously child-like in his naivete and geriatric in his restless mentation, redrafting the insights and ripostes he'll clearly never send to his diverse correspondents.

  As a result t ... (continue)

  'Herzog', published 1964, has a real sixties flavour - and that's a good thing. The anti-hero Herzog, is simultaneously child-like in his naivete and geriatric in his restless mentation, redrafting the insights and ripostes he'll clearly never send to his diverse correspondents.

  As a result the book wouldn't work if set in the economics driven world of the 80s or 90s. As it is it's funny, smart and wise but filtered through the cracked sensibility of a failed Professor of Romantic Philosophy gracefully surrendering to mid-life crises.

  Well worth reading (again).

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• English Books
• Paperback 352 Pages
• Edition: Reprint
• ISBN-10: 0140189432
• ISBN-13: 9780140189438
• Publisher: Penguin Classics
• Pub date: Oct 01, 1996
• Dimensions: 1290 mm x 839 mm x 129 mm Just how big is that?
• Also available as: Hardcover and Audio Cassette
• In other languages: other languages Livres Français, Deutsche Bücher, Libros en Español, Livros em Português, Libri Italiani

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