Saul Bellow RIP

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― j blount (papa la bas), Tuesday, 5 April 2005 21:55 (twenty years ago)

definitely in my top five american novelists evah

― j blount (papa la bas), Tuesday, 5 April 2005 21:56 (twenty years ago)

yup

― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Tuesday, 5 April 2005 22:24 (twenty years ago)

I've only ever managed to finish "The Victim" but i do (and shall) keep on trying. A Huge Loss. R.I.P.

― jed_ (jed), Tuesday, 5 April 2005 22:36 (twenty years ago)

and shockingly he didnt dip in qaulity after the nobel--ravelstein was an amazing tour de force.

― anthony, Tuesday, 5 April 2005 22:45 (twenty years ago)

Also the only man ever to win the Pulitzer and Nobel in the same year.

― Girolamo Savonarola, Tuesday, 5 April 2005 22:47 (twenty years ago)

definitely one of my faves. top 5? yeah, i think so. living writers anyway. or, er, until now. he had a good run. a long interesting life. actually, janet frame died last year. she was in my top 5 too. my god, they are dropping like flies! i will say a prayer for muriel spark, lorrie moore, and alice munro.

― scott seward (scott seward), Tuesday, 5 April 2005 23:37 (twenty years ago)

top 5 is certainly pushing it for me. but i liked him. i liked the allusions to schopenhauer in Mr. Sammler's Planet. RIP

― ryan (ryan), Tuesday, 5 April 2005 23:37 (twenty years ago)

A bit of a personal pope for me. But great writers don't die, they just enter the canon.

― Momus (Momus), Wednesday, 6 April 2005 00:17 (twenty years ago)

i love ravelstein.

:(:(:(:(

― s1ocki (slutsky), Wednesday, 6 April 2005 00:20 (twenty years ago)

i miss mid-20th-century american jewishness

― s1ocki (slutsky), Wednesday, 6 April 2005 00:20 (twenty years ago)

i was so happy when i found out he was born in montreal

― s1ocki (slutsky), Wednesday, 6 April 2005 00:22 (twenty years ago)

nice writeup momus

― j blount (papa la bas), Wednesday, 6 April 2005 00:26 (twenty years ago)

yes, what blount said.

― s1ocki (slutsky), Wednesday, 6 April 2005 00:30 (twenty years ago)

I only discovered Bellow a few years ago - first through Augie March, then Ravelstein, and most recently - just earlier this year, in fact - Herzog. After the first chapter of Augie I had no doubt he was a major talent. By the end of Herzog I was convinced he was indeed one of the finest writers of his time. This is obviously a great loss for literature, though there is the consolation of his considerable body of work, which remains for me still mostly unexplored.

― o. nate (onate), Wednesday, 6 April 2005 00:34 (twenty years ago)

he made allan bloom seem downright worshipful, for gods sake. what an accomplishment. i could only hope to have a friend like saul bellow. rest in peace.

― j.s., Wednesday, 6 April 2005 02:01 (twenty years ago)

I'm always amazed at how many people I meet who love Saul Bellow. When I discovered him in my freshman year of college, I hadn't yet changed my major to English and I didn't have any friends who knew who he was. I sort of stumbled onto The Actual by accident, which I didn't even enjoy that much, and it was only when I read Seize the Day that I became hooked, still having no idea that he was so widely read and revered. Dave Eggers cites him as a major influence, for crying out loud (not that one would know it from reading his books).

― Hurting (Hurting), Wednesday, 6 April 2005 02:12 (twenty years ago)

I had no idea he was born in Mtl either. It's sad that it took his death for me to find out.

― Huk-L, Wednesday, 6 April 2005 15:04 (twenty years ago)

it's sad when writers die.

RIP.

― cozen (Cozen), Wednesday, 6 April 2005 16:50 (twenty years ago)

Here's a blog post about Bellow's time at the University of Minnesota. He's my all-time favorite writer.

http://babelogue.citypages.com:8080/ctg/

― dylan (dylan), Friday, 8 April 2005 01:31 (twenty years ago)

eleven months pass...

Penguin Classics Proudly Presents: The Choose Your Own Adventures of Augie March

Page 1:

"I am an American, Chicago born--Chicago, that somber city--and go at things as I have taught myself, free-style, and will make record in my own way: first to knock, first admitted; sometimes an innocent knock, sometimes a not so innocent. But a man's character is his fate, says Heraclitus, and in the end there isn't any way to disguise the nature of the knocks by acoustical work on the door or gloving the knuckles."

How will you go about things?

To go about things as you have taught yourself, free-style, first to knock first admitted; sometimes an innocent knock, sometimes a not so innocent, turn to page 2.

To go about things full of bullshit, disguising the nature of the knocks by acoustical work on the door or gloving the knucles, turn to page 325.

(from http://dnasty.blogspot.com/2003_11_01_dnasty_archive.html#106927578050421310)

― o. nate (onate), Thursday, 30 March 2006 18:44 (nineteen years ago)

harf

― s1ocki (slutsky), Thursday, 30 March 2006 18:46 (nineteen years ago)

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