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The Cambridge companion to Saul Bellow
\"Demonstrates the complexity of this formative writer by emphasizing the ways in which Bellow's works speak to the changing conditions of American identity and culture from the post-war period to the turn of the 21st century\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Kazin, Bellow and Trilling: A Triptych
Alfred Kazin was a gifted verbal portraitist, his subjects other writers past and present. In portraying them, he portrayed himself as well. A short essay (an excerpt from New York Jew) on Saul Bellow and Lionel Trilling turns into a triptych of all three—illuminating them as writers, Americans and Jews. The Bellow of the essay is of a time when he had published short stories, but before he had published a single novel. Kazin reflects on Bellow’s power of observation and immense confidence in his destiny as artist.
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Four Discourses and Sinthomatique Writing in Saul Bellow’s Herzog: A Lacanian Approach
This paper studies sinthomatique writing in Saul Bellow’s Herzog in the form of letter-writing. Referring to Lacanian theory, the Sinthome is discussed in the study as a system of signification that exploits the unconscious digging for jouissance. Connected to jouissance in writing unconscious, the Sinthome is the fourth ring in the Borromean knot that protects a subject against psychosis by intersecting the Imaginary, the Symbolic, and the Real orders. This study further develops the idea of the Sinthome in relation to the Four Lacanian Discourses. In respect to Discourses of the Master, University, Hysteric, and Analyst, the following procedure is introduced for a subject excluded spatially and socially: foreclosure of master signifier, rejection of desire, reception of jouissance, and communication of the unconscious. The subject in above-mentioned moves needs a sinthome to protect his/her subjectivity against disintegration. Regarding Jacques Lacan’s example about James Joyce in using specific styles and epiphany, letter-writing is introduced as the Sinthome in Herzog that helps Herzog deliver his subjectivity from dissolution. Herzog is a character on the verge of breakdown and madness after his second divorce. He reconfigures his subjectivity when he forecloses AMERICA as master signifier, no longer enjoys knowledge, receives contradictions and truth, and ultimately jots down his unconscious. Finally, the role of the Sinthome is explored in the production of art. The Sinthome is considered as a kind of unique discourse through which a psychotic artist is enabled to originate new artistic productions.
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Spiritual Journey of Protagonists in Saul Bellow’s Fictions: Search-Escape-Regeneration
Saul Bellow, the author of Herzog, became first American Jewish writer who won the Nobel literature prize in 1976. His works changed the dominant American literature led by Hemingway and Faulkner and opened up another new era of American literature. There are many discussions among critics in the literary world, and the conclusions reached were not all the same. Some critics started with his writing techniques and believed that his novel inherits and integrates the two traditions of modernism and realism and want to classify it as a category of Western Marxism. Some apply to ethical literary criticism and make an analysis of human-nature and human-self relationship in his works. Even some critics believe that this novel distorts the image of women from the feminist point of view. This paper aims to analyze three of Saul Bellow’s famous fictions, Herzog, Henderson the Rain King, More die of heartbreak from the perspectives of the spiritual evolution of the protagonists. David Galloway (1996) suggested that Bellow had only written one book from six different points of view which convey the common psychological journey of the protagonists in his works. (P138)
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Jewish Poetics in Saul Bellow's Henderson the Rain King (1959)
Of all the novels in Saul Bellow's oeuvre, Henderson the Rain King (1959) seems to be the only one that is unrelated to Jewish life. Its plot revolves around an Anglo-Saxon millionaire, Eugene Henderson, who travels to Africa in search of answers to his existential crisis. This article shows that the novel is actually replete with Jewish themes and it positions the book alongside other postwar texts that disguised Jewish modes of expression within seemingly universal narratives. Henderson is framed in Yiddish and biblical rhetoric and reflects the ideas that Bellow developed in response to the Holocaust. It is also full of contradictions and ambiguities characteristic of this postwar genre; for instance, Henderson is exaggeratedly goyish at the same time he features many quintessential Jewish traits. By bringing attention to these aspects of the novel, this reading engages with critical and theoretical debates around how to demarcate the parameters that define Jewish American literature. It encourages the reader to reconsider those postwar texts that have been misinterpreted as diverging from Jewishness. And it directs them beyond the obvious hallmarks of Jewishness toward subtler cues that account for the ambivalences of postwar Jewish American identification.
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Saul Bellow’s Spain
Saul Bellow loved Spain and Spanish culture and mined his experience there in three pieces: \"Spanish Letter,\" a nonfiction account; \"The Gonzaga Manuscripts,\" a short story; and a section in Humboldt’s Gift in which Charlie Citrine goes to Madrid. In his fiction Bellow uses Spain as a place where his idealistic and somewhat foolish heroes go on a typical Bellovian journey, a personal and spiritual quest in which they undergo humiliation and self-mortification—a comedic quest that in this context can only be called quixotic.
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Arno Motulsky
Motulsky built the new department knowing that medical genetics touched on many different sciences: “No one can be an expert in everything, and we needed colleagues in biochemistry and statistics and later in molecular biology and genomics to carry out the research that would be useful to our patients. “When we become discouraged about whether identifying the gene for a trait will ever lead to a medical intervention, we should remind ourselves that this one did”, Motulsky said. Goldstein called Motulsky “a hurricane of energy, enthusiasm, exhilaration, and excitement”, who “gave me the confidence, support, and resources to design and carry out a large study on lipid levels in survivors of heart attacks—at a time when I was an unknown 28-year-old”.
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'Everything Was Happing Simultaneously': Sartre, Heidegger, and Jung in Philip Roth'S Patrimony
In his memoir Patrimony, might Philip Roth have aligned a Jungian, universal unconscious with Heideggerian resoluteness but evaded cognitive demise via the Sartrian flight of the For-itself inherent in writing? I argue that such concerns pervade the narrative and stand related to what Roth elsewhere calls \"the struggle not only to infuse fiction with mind but to make mentalness itself central to the hero's dilemma—to think … about the problem of thinking.\" In Patrimony, such thinking spans synchronistic occurrences across time.
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