A masterful twist on the epistolary novel, Saul
Bellow's ''Herzog'' is part confessional, part exorcism,
and a wholly unique achievement in postmodern fiction.
This ''Penguin Classics'' edition includes an
introduction by Malcolm Bradbury in ''Penguin Modern
Classics''. 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. Saul Bellow (1[zasłonięte]915-20) was a Canadian -
born American writer who enjoyed a dazzling career as a
novelist, marked with numerous literary prizes,
including the Pulitzer Prize and the Nobel Prize for
Literature. His books include ''The Adventures of Augie
March'', ''Herzog'', ''More Die of Heartbreak'',
''Mosby's Memoirs and Other Stories'', ''Mr.Sammler's
Planet'', ''Seize The Day'' and ''The Victim''. If you
enjoyed ''Herzog'', you might like Bellow's ''Seize the
Day'', also available in ''Penguin Modern Classics''.
''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''). |
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