Dangling Man
Autor Saul Bellowen Limba Engleză Paperback – oct 2006
An essential masterwork by Nobel laureate Saul Bellow— now with a new introduction
Expecting to be inducted into the army to fight in World War II, Joseph has given up his job and carefully prepared for his departure to the battlefront. When a series of mix-ups delays his induction, he finds himself facing a year of idleness. Saul Bellow's first novel documents Joseph's psychological reaction to his inactivity while war rages around him and his uneasy insights into the nature of freedom and choice. This edition features a new introduction by J. M. Coetzee.
Expecting to be inducted into the army to fight in World War II, Joseph has given up his job and carefully prepared for his departure to the battlefront. When a series of mix-ups delays his induction, he finds himself facing a year of idleness. Saul Bellow's first novel documents Joseph's psychological reaction to his inactivity while war rages around him and his uneasy insights into the nature of freedom and choice. This edition features a new introduction by J. M. Coetzee.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780143039877
ISBN-10: 0143039873
Pagini: 160
Dimensiuni: 128 x 199 x 10 mm
Greutate: 0.13 kg
Ediția:Revizuită
Editura: Penguin Publishing Group
ISBN-10: 0143039873
Pagini: 160
Dimensiuni: 128 x 199 x 10 mm
Greutate: 0.13 kg
Ediția:Revizuită
Editura: Penguin Publishing Group
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Descriere
Written in 1944, Dangling Man takes the form of the journal of a young man waiting to be drafted. He has received notice, but a series of mix-ups keeps him waiting for the official call to arms.
Notă biografică
Saul
Bellow
was
born
in
1915
to
Russian
émigré
parents.
As
a
young
child
in
Chicago,
Bellow
was
raised
on
books
-
the
Old
Testament,
Shakespeare,
Tolstoy
and
Chekhov
-
and
learned
Hebrew
and
Yiddish.
He
set
his
heart
on
becoming
a
writer
after
reading
Uncle
Tom's
Cabin,
contrary
to
his
mother's
hopes
that
he
would
become
a
rabbi
or
a
concert
violinist.
He
was
educated
at
the
University
of
Chicago
and
North-Western
University,
graduating
in
Anthropology
and
Sociology;
he
then
went
on
to
work
for
theEncyclopaedia
Britannica.
Bellow published his first novel,The Dangling Man, in 1944; this was followed, in 1947, byThe Victim. In 1948 a Guggenheim Fellowship enabled Bellow to travel to Paris, where he wroteThe Adventures of Augie March, published in 1953.Henderson The Rain King(1959) brought Bellow worldwide fame, and in 1964, his best-known novel,Herzog, was published and immediately lauded as a masterpiece, 'a well-nigh faultless novel' (New Yorker).
Saul Bellow's dazzling career as a novelist was celebrated during his lifetime with an unprecedented array of literary prizes and awards, including the Pulitzer Prize, three National Book Awards, and the Gold Medal for the Novel. In 1976 he was awarded a Nobel Prize 'for the human understanding and subtle analysis of contemporary culture that are combined in his work'.
Bellow's death in 2005 was met with tribute from writers and critics around the world, including James Wood, who praised 'the beauty of this writing, its music, its high lyricism, its firm but luxurious pleasure in language itself'.
Bellow published his first novel,The Dangling Man, in 1944; this was followed, in 1947, byThe Victim. In 1948 a Guggenheim Fellowship enabled Bellow to travel to Paris, where he wroteThe Adventures of Augie March, published in 1953.Henderson The Rain King(1959) brought Bellow worldwide fame, and in 1964, his best-known novel,Herzog, was published and immediately lauded as a masterpiece, 'a well-nigh faultless novel' (New Yorker).
Saul Bellow's dazzling career as a novelist was celebrated during his lifetime with an unprecedented array of literary prizes and awards, including the Pulitzer Prize, three National Book Awards, and the Gold Medal for the Novel. In 1976 he was awarded a Nobel Prize 'for the human understanding and subtle analysis of contemporary culture that are combined in his work'.
Bellow's death in 2005 was met with tribute from writers and critics around the world, including James Wood, who praised 'the beauty of this writing, its music, its high lyricism, its firm but luxurious pleasure in language itself'.