Bøger af Saul Bellow

Bellow evokes all the rich colour and exotic customs of a highly imaginary Africa in this comic novel about a middle-aged American millionaire who, seeking a new, more rewarding life, descends upon an African tribe. Henderson's awesome feats of strength and his unbridled passion for life earns him the admiration of the tribe - but it is his gift for making rain that turns him from mere hero into messiah. A hilarious, often ribald story, HENDERSON THE RAIN KING is also a profound look at the forces that drive a man through life.

'I think it A Work of genius, I think it The Work of a Genius' John CheeverFor many years, the great poet Von Humboldt Fleisher and Charlie Citrine, a young man inflamed with a love for literature, were the best of friends. At the time of his death, however, Humboldt is a failure, and Charlie's life has reached a low point: his career is at a standstill, and he's enmeshed in an acrimonious divorce, infatuated with a highly unsuitable young woman and involved with a neurotic mafioso. And then Humboldt acts from beyond the grave, bestowing upon Charlie an unexpected legacy that may just help him turn his life around.

"I hungrily read the book through in three nights, as though I'd stumbled upon a lost Bellow masterpiece only recently unearthed." -Philip RothA literary milestone in its own right, this selection of correspondence connects us as never before to one of the greatest writers of our time. Saul Bellow was winner of the Pulitzer Prize, three National Book Awards, and the Nobel Prize in Literature. He also wrote marvelously acute, unsparing, tender, ferocious, hilarious, and wise letters throughout his long life (1915-2005). Including letters to William Faulkner, John Cheever, Ralph Ellison, Cynthia Ozick, Martin Amis, and many others, this vast self-portrait-shows the influences at work in a seminal literary mind.

"The Adventures of Augie March" set the stage for Bellow's Nobel Prize Award in 1976 and established him as a crucial voice that demanded to be heard. Fifty years later, it remains the best loved of Bellow's works as new readers discover this vital, truly American masterpiece.

I Saul Bellows prisbelønnede roman "En ung amerikaners eventyr" fra 1953 følger vi Augie March, der vokser op i et af Chicagos fattige kvarterer under Depressionen. Familien Marchs logerende, bedstemor Lausch, sætter tidligt Augie og hans bror Simon i gang med forskellige småjobs, der kan øge familiens indtjening, og Augie lærer hurtigt at omgås reglerne til sin egen fordel. Det skal vise sig at blive definerende for hans senere så brogede og begivenhedsrige liv, der bringer ham vidt omkring og i kontakt med både høj og lav.Den canadisk-amerikanske forfatter Saul Bellow (1915-2005) regnes blandt de største amerikanske forfattere efter 2. verdenskrig. Saul Bellow har været professor ved flere prominente amerikanske universiteter og har vundet mange prestigefulde priser for sine samfundskritiske romaner – heriblandt Nobelprisen i litteratur i 1976."… En romanforfatter, som fortjener at sammenlignes med de bedste …" – The Saturday Review"… Lystig, forvirrende, forbløffende … en bog, hvori der er liv, fantasi og styrke – den placerer Bellow blandt de bedste amerikanske romanskribenter …" – Hermann Kogan, Chicago Sun-Times

I 1975 besøgte den jødisk-amerikanske forfatter Saul Bellow Israel, og det udmøntede sig i bogen "Jerusalem tur-retur", hvori han fortæller om sine indtryk og oplevelser på rejsen – både på et personligt og på et politisk-religiøst plan.Den canadisk-amerikanske forfatter Saul Bellow (1915-2005) regnes blandt de største amerikanske forfattere efter 2. verdenskrig. Saul Bellow har været professor ved flere prominente amerikanske universiteter og har vundet mange prestigefulde priser for sine samfundskritiske romaner – heriblandt Nobelprisen i litteratur i 1976.

Den midaldrende, mislykkede skuespiller Tommy Wilhelm er i krise. Allerede i ungdommen lod han sig lokke af den amerikanske drøm, og han har stræbt efter at opnå succes. Da han bliver ældre indser han, at idealet er en tom skal, men da er han fanget ind og kan ikke slippe ud igen. Vi følger Tommy Wilhelm gennem en enkelt dag, hvor han tvinges til at gøre op med sin fortid og acceptere livet, som det er.Den canadisk-amerikanske forfatter Saul Bellow (1915-2005) regnes blandt de største amerikanske forfattere efter 2. verdenskrig. Saul Bellow har været professor ved flere prominente amerikanske universiteter og har vundet mange prestigefulde priser for sine samfundskritiske romaner – heriblandt Nobelprisen i litteratur i 1976.

Holocaustoverlever Artur Sammler observerer med erfarne øjne amerikanerne leve overfladiske liv i en tid og en verden, hvor alt øjensynligt er muligt, men hvor den luksus, de stræber efter, kun fører til mere elendighed og utilfredshed. "Mr. Sammlers planet" præsenterer 1960‘ernes USA gennem en alvorlig og intellektuel observator, som stadig plages af det europæiske traume efter 2. verdenskrig.

På trods af rigdom og status er Eugene Henderson en plaget mand. En indre stemme driver den amerikanske millionær til Afrika i jagten på noget, han ikke selv er klar over, hvad er. I sin søgen ender han hos Kong Dahfus stamme, hvor han ophøjes til regnkonge. Han fører flere filosofiske diskussioner med kongen, som har studeret medicin og psykologi i vesten, men da kongen erklærer Henderson som fortræffeligt emne til et videnskabeligt eksperiment, der blandt andet indbefatter en løve, bliver tingene mere og mere komplicerede.Den canadisk-amerikanske forfatter Saul Bellow (1915-2005) regnes blandt de største amerikanske forfattere efter 2. verdenskrig. Saul Bellow har været professor ved flere prominente amerikanske universiteter og har vundet mange prestigefulde priser for sine samfundskritiske romaner – heriblandt Nobelprisen i litteratur i 1976.

Der bliver vendt op og ned på Asa Leventhals liv, da den forsumpede Kirby Albee dukker op ud af det blå og beskylder ham for at have fået ham fyret fra en god stilling for mange år siden. Albee sporer hele sin dårligdom tilbage til fyringen og bebrejder den uforstående Leventhal for alt, hvad der sidenhen er gået galt i hans liv. Leventhal benægter beskyldningen, men Albee er ikke sådan at slippe af med. Han indleder en modbydelig forfølgelse af Leventhal, der kulminerer, da han simpelthen flytter ind i Leventhals lejlighed for at udøve sin psykologiske terror indefra. Lidt efter lidt begynder Leventhal selv at tvivle på sin uskyld.Den canadisk-amerikanske forfatter Saul Bellows (1915-2005) regnes blandt de største amerikanske forfattere efter 2. verdenskrig. Saul Bellows har været professor ved flere prominente amerikanske universiteter og har vundet mange prestigiøse priser for sine samfundskritiske romaner. "Saul Bellows stil ejer en selvfølgelig intensitet, der gør alt klart og indlysende. Alt bliver konkret, kommer næsten ubehageligt tæt ind på livet af en… Bellow opnår en ganske særlig virkning ved at indføre et skjult komisk element i den psykologiske krigsføring mellem de to mænd, og hele hans realistiske menneskeopfattelse kan glimtvis virke grotesk som en Chaplinfilm… en robust og sund bog, som samtidig på en overraskende måde blotter de skjulte tråde, der på godt og ondt knytter mennesker til hinanden." – Information

Den 47-årige jødisk-amerikanske litteraturprofessor Moses Herzogs liv bryder sammen, da han opdager, at hans kone og hans bedste ven har en affære. I hovedet begynder han at skrive breve til venner, familie og forskellige berømtheder. Breve, han aldrig sender, men som alle udtrykker skuffelse med modtageren eller undskylder for den skuffelse, han selv har været for andre."Herzog" regnes som et af Saul Bellows hovedværker. Romanen blev til som en slags hævn over Bellows anden kone og hans bedste ven, der bedrog ham.Den canadisk-amerikanske forfatter Saul Bellow (1915-2005) regnes blandt de største amerikanske forfattere efter 2. verdenskrig. Saul Bellow har været professor ved flere prominente amerikanske universiteter og har vundet mange prestigefulde priser for sine samfundskritiske romaner – heriblandt Nobelprisen i litteratur i 1976.

"What makes all of this so remarkable is not merely Bellow's eye and ear for vital detail. Nor is it his talent for exposing the innards of character in a paragraph, a sentence, a phrase. It is Bellow's vision, his uncanny ability to seize the moment and to see beyond it." -Chicago Sun-TimesA Penguin Classic Fading charmer Tommy Wilhelm has reached his day of reckoning and is scared. In his forties, he still retains a boyish impetuousness that has brought him to the brink of chaos: He is separated from his wife and children, at odds with his vain, successful father, failed in his acting career (a Hollywood agent once cast him as the "type that loses the girl"), and in a financial mess. In the course of one climactic day he reviews his past mistakes and spiritual malaise, until a mysterious philosophizing con man grants him a glorious, illuminating moment of truth and understanding, and offers him one last hope…. This Penguin Classics edition contains an introduction by Cynthia Ozick.For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.

In these collection of nonfiction essays Bellow demonstrated his vigilance of and loyalty to his country over a span of 45 years.

Fading charmer, Tommy Wilhelm has reached his day of reckoning and is scared. In his forties, he still retains a boyish impetuousness that has brought him to the brink of chaos: he is separated from his wife and children, at odds with his vain, successful father, failed in his acting career, and in a financial mess.

The story behind The Actual belongs to Harry Trellman, an aging, astute businessman who has never belonged anywhere.

"e;The best novel to come out of Americaor Englandfor a generation."e;V.S. Pritchett, The New York Review of Books A Penguin Classic In this unique noir masterpiece by the incomparable Saul Bellow, a young man is sucked into the mysterious, heat-filled vortex of New York City. Asa Leventhal, a temporary bachelor with his wife away on a visit to her mother, attempts to find relief from a Gotham heat wave, only to be accosted in the park by a down-at-the-heels stranger who accuses Leventhal of ruining his life. Unable to shake the stranger loose, Leventhal is led by his own self-doubts and suspicions into a nightmare of paranoia and fear. This Penguin Classics edition features an introduction by National Book Award winner Norman Rush.For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust theseries to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-datetranslations by award-winning translators.

Abe Ravelstein is a brilliant professor at a prominent midwestern university and a man who glories in training the movers and shakers of the political world. He has lived grandly and ferociously-and much beyond his means. His close friend Chick has suggested that he put forth a book of his convictions about the ideas which sustain humankind, or kill it, and much to Ravelstein's own surprise, he does and becomes a millionaire. Ravelstein suggests in turn that Chick write a memoir or a life of him, and during the course of a celebratory trip to Paris the two share thoughts on mortality, philosophy and history, loves and friends, old and new, and vaudeville routines from the remote past. The mood turns more somber once they have returned to the Midwest and Ravelstein succumbs to AIDS and Chick himself nearly dies.Deeply insightful and always moving, Saul Bellow's new novel is a journey through love and memory. It is brave, dark, and bleakly funny: an elegy to friendship and to lives well (or badly) lived.

';The work of a great master still locked in unequal combat with Eros and Time.' The New York Times Book ReviewA Penguin Classic In this dazzling work of fiction, Nobel Laureate Saul Bellow writes comically and wisely about the tenacious claims of first love. Harry Trellman, an aging, astute businessman, has never belonged anywhere and is as awkward in his human attachments as he is gifted in observing the people around him. But Harry's observational talents have not gone unnoticed by "e;trillionaire"e; Sigmund Adletsky, who retains Harry as his advisor. Soon the old man discovers Harry's intense forty-year passion for a twice-divorced interior designer, Amy Wustrin. At the exhumation and reburial of her husband, Harry is provided, thanks to Sigmund, perhaps the final means for disclosing feelings amassed over a lifetime. Written late in Bellow's career,The Actualis a maestro's dissection of the affairs of the heart. This Penguin Classics edition contains an introduction by Joseph O'Neill.For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust theseries to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-datetranslations by award-winning translators.

Saul Bellow's Herzog is part confessional, part exorcism, and a wholly unique achievement in postmodern fiction. Is Moses Herzog losing his mind? His formidable wife Madeleine has left him for his best friend, and Herzog is left alone with his whirling thoughts - yet he still sees himself as a survivor, raging against private disasters and the myriad catastrophes of the modern age. In a crumbling house which he shares with rats, his head buzzing with ideas, he writes frantic, unsent letters to friends and enemies, colleagues and famous people, the living and the dead, revealing the spectacular workings of his labyrinthine mind and the innermost secrets of his troubled heart.This Penguin Modern Classics edition includes an introduction by Malcolm Bradbury'Spectacular ... surely Bellow's greatest novel'Malcolm Bradbury'A masterpiece ... Herzog's voice, for all its wildness and strangeness and foolishness, is the voice of a civilization, our civilization'The New York Times Book Review

In the mid-1970s, Saul Bellow visited Israel and To Jerusalem and Back is his account of his time there. Immersing himself in its landscape and culture, he records the opinions, passions and dreams of Israelis of varying viewpoints from Prime Minister Rabin, novelist Amos Oz and the editor of an Arab-language newspaper to a kibbutznik escaped from the Warsaw ghetto and the barber at Bellow s hotel. Through meditations steeped in history and literature he adds his own reflections on being Jewish in the twentieth century. Bellow s exploration of a beautiful and troubled city is a powerful testament to the unique spirit and challenges of Israel, its history and its future.