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  1. Apr 27, 2015 · Although he taught literature throughout his adult life, Bellow was always and increasingly suspicious of the universities — long before ideological jumpiness had turned them into what he privately...

  2. Jun 6, 2016 · Bellow was among the few American thinkers who recognized the changed circumstances of Western intellectuals and their new social-cultural roles that combined influence, with an imaginary marginality, and a professed alienation with occupational security and high standards of living.

    • Paul Hollander
    • society@wellesley.edu
    • 2016
  3. Sep 30, 2016 · ‘WHO IS THE TOLSTOY OF THE ZULUS? The Proust of the Papuans? I’d be glad to read him.’ 1 What Saul Bellow said in 1988 during an interview with the New York Times Magazine has damaged his reputation. His views on race, and culture more broadly, don’t make him a fashionable writer.

  4. Sep 30, 2016 · The unstable ironic distance between author and character is not an artistic failure so much as an inevitable result of the intense spontaneity which for Bellow connects the writing on the page with the authentic voice within.

    • Vidyan Ravinthiran
    • 2016
  5. Aug 12, 2024 · Implicit in the direction of his style is a desire to encompass a world larger, richer, more disorderly and untrammeled than that of any other writer of his generation; it is this which impels...

  6. Feb 14, 2008 · In 1976, Vivian Gornick wrote an essay on the brilliance (literary) and the failings (cultural) of male Jewish American writers — among them Saul Bellow, Norman Mailer, and Philip Roth. “Why Do These Men Hate Women?” came at a time when Second Wave feminism was beginning to clash with the sensibilities of older writers, all men, she said, who playfully (or viciously) denigrated the Other ...

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  8. May 1, 2015 · Some of the reasons for that are straightforwardly political. Though he didn’t wholly conform to the neoconservative pattern of moving from youthful Trotskyism to the fire-breathing right, the...

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