Saul Bellow
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Leaving the Yellow House
She had lived by delays; she had meant to stop drinking; she had put off the time, and now she had smashed her car.
At once harsh and tender, expansive and acutely funny, this is the story of an elderly and self-destructive dipsomaniac in a Western desert town, who finds herself faced with a final, impossible choice.
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Herzog
In time for the centennial of his birth, one of the Nobel Prize winner s finest achievements
This is the story of Moses Herzog a great sufferer, joker, mourner, charmer, serial writer of unsent letters, and a survivor, both of his private disasters and those of the age. Winner of the National Book Award when it was first published in 1964, the novel was hailed as a masterpiece ("The New York Times Book Review").
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Ravelstein
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.
The Dean's December
Dean Corde is a man of position and authority at a Chicago university. He accompanies his wife to Bucharest where her mother, a celebrated figure, lies dying in a state hospital. As he tries to help her grapple with an unfeeling bureaucracy, news filters through to him of mounting problems left behind in Chicago.Corde is troubled: at home the centre is not holding firm, in Eastern Europe authority is cruel and dehumanizing.
To Jerusalem and Back - A Personal Account
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.
The Actual
The story behind The Actual belongs to Harry Trellman, an aging, astute businessman who has never belonged anywhere.
Mr Sammler's Planet
Mr. Artur Sammler, Holocaust survivor, intellectual, and occasional lecturer at Columbia University in 1960s New York City, is a "registrar of madness," a refined and civilized being caught among people crazy with the promises of the future (moon landings, endless possibilities). His Cyclopean gaze reflects on the degradations of city life while looking deep into the sufferings of the human soul. "Sorry for all and sore at heart," he observes how greater luxury and leisure have only led to more human suffering. To Mr. Sammler-who by the end of this ferociously unsentimental novel has found the compassionate consciousness necessary to bridge the gap between himself and his fellow beings-a good life is one in which a person does what is "required of him." To know and to meet the "terms of the contract" was as true a life as one could live.
Collected Stories
This is the definitive collection of short stories by Saul Bellow. Abundant, precise, various, rich and exuberant, the stories display the stylistic and emotional brilliance which characterizes this master of prose. Some stories recount the events of a single day, some are contained in a wider frame; each story is a characteristic combination of observation and a celebration of humanity.
Dangling Man
Expecting to be inducted into the army, 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. Dangling Man is his journal, a wonderful account of his restless wanderings through Chicago's streets, his musings on the past, his psychological reaction to his inactivity while war rages around him, and his uneasy insights into the nature of freedom and choice.
More Die of Heartbreak
Kenneth Trachtenberg has left his native Paris for the Midwest. He has come to be near his beloved uncle, the world-renowned botanist Benn Crader, self-described 'plant visionary.' While his studies take him around the world, Benn, a restless spirit, has not been able to satisfy his longings after his first marriage and lives from affair to affair and from 'bliss to breakdown.' Imagining that a settled existence will end his anguish, Benn ties the knot again, opening the door to a flood of new torments.
Sammler bolygója
Artur Sammler szó szerint a sírból jött vissza. Fél szemét kiverték, feleségét megölték, méltóságától megfosztották. Amerikában élő rokonai fedezték fel nevét a túlélők listáján, majd New Yorkba költöztetik, segítik és támogatják. Mindannyian szeretik az intelligens, sziporkázó humorú, mindig mindenkire odafigyelő öregurat, azonban Sammler nemigen tud mihez kezdeni se velük, se a világgal, amelyben élnek.
Egytől egyig eszelősnek tartja őket. Nem tudja eldönteni, melyikük a nagyobb bolond: a guberáló Shula-Slawa, aki a virágokkal beszélget; az "agyonbaszott" szemű Angela; a munkahelyén kizárólag keresztrejtvényt fejtő Wallace; az illegális abortuszokért a maffiától kapott pénzt a zsámolyba rejtő Elya vagy a zenekritikus Bruch, aki mocskolódó leveleket írkál a muzsikusoknak. Ám egy szép tavaszi napon Sammlert két váratlan esemény zökkenti ki szokásos elmélkedéseiből életről és halálról, na meg a holdra szállásról. Rajtakap a buszon egy fekete zsebtolvajt, megmentője, Elya Gruner pedig kórházba kerül...
Saul Bellow az egyetlen olyan amerikai író, aki háromszor kapta meg a Nemzeti Könyv Díjat (Augie March kalandjai, Herzog, Sammler bolygója). 1975-ben a Humboldt's Gift (Humboldt ajándéka) elnyerte a Pulitzer-díjat, 1976-ban pedig "a kortárs kultúra emberi megértése és mélyreható elemzése" miatt ő kapta az irodalmi Nobel-díjat.
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Henderson, az esőkirály
A regény az ötvenes éveiben járó, élethabzsoló, harsány és nagydarab balekról, a milliomos Hendersonról szól, akit mély lelki válság gyötör. A szívében egy hang egyfolytában azt mondogatja: "akarom, akarom", de Henderson képtelen rájönni, mit akarhat
a szíve. A férfi nem találja a helyét, és semmiben nem lel megnyugvást, ezért végül elhatározza, hogy frissen házasodott barátját elkíséri az afrikai nászútjára, hátha az idegen földön majd rájön, mit is szeretne valójában...
Oběti zlomeného srdce
Desátý román nositele Nobelovy ceny je vyprávěním mladého vysokoškolského pedagoga, odborníka na ruskou literaturu, Kennetha Trachtenberga. Ten se z Paríže přestěhuje na americký středozápad, aby byl nablízku svému strýci, proslulému a úspešnému botanikovi Bennu Craderovi, ve kterém se zhlédl. Strýček se teší velké oblibě u žen a bohatě toho využívá, ale přelétavý život mu neposkytuje naplnění, jaké by si představoval. Domnívá se, že svatba jeho problémy vyřeší, ale opak se ukáže být pravdou. Problémy ve vztahu zažívá i jeho synovec Ken a oba muži se snaží přijít na kloub tomu, proč se inteligentní a vzdělaní lidé potýkají v osobním životě s tak nepřekonatelnými nesnázemi.
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Desátý román nositele Nobelovy ceny je vyprávěním mladého vysokoškolského pedagoga, odborníka na ruskou literaturu, Kennetha Trachtenberga. Ten se z Paríže přestěhuje na americký středozápad, aby byl nablízku svému strýci, proslulému a úspešnému botanikovi Bennu Craderovi, ve kterém se zhlédl. Strýček se teší velké oblibě u žen a bohatě toho využívá, ale přelétavý život mu neposkytuje naplnění, jaké by si představoval. Domnívá se, že svatba jeho problémy vyřeší, ale opak se ukáže být pravdou. Problémy ve vztahu zažívá i jeho synovec Ken a oba muži se snaží přijít na kloub tomu, proč se inteligentní a vzdělaní lidé potýkají v osobním životě s tak nepřekonatelnými nesnázemi.
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Henderson the Rain King
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.
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Dobrodružství Augieho Marche
Chicagský rodák Augie prochází po vzoru hrdinů pikareskního a výchovného románu sérií epizod a životních dobrodružství, které ho z USA zavedou také do Mexika, Itálie či Francie. Na cestě potkává lidi z nejrůznějších vrstev od chudáků přes hazardní hráče a podvodné obchodníky až po společenskou smetánku a milionáře. Augie se však nepřestává řídit svými vnitřními hodnotami, jimiž jsou pravda, láska, mír, štědrost, užitečnost a harmonie.
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