Chapter 5. “Here I Am!” – Hineni Partial and Partisan Translations: Saul Bellow

2009 ◽  
pp. 100-126
Keyword(s):  
Saul Bellow

‘Webbed with Golden Lines’: Saul Bellow's Romanticism

Romanticism ◽  
2008 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
pp. 57-67
Author(s):  
Mark Sandy
Keyword(s):  
Culturally Diverse ◽  
Jewish American ◽  
British Romanticism ◽  
Saul Bellow ◽  
American School ◽  
Dominant Design ◽  
Post War ◽  
The Web

Attaining prominence in the post-war era, Saul Bellow is one of the most widely read and intellectually eclectic novelists of the Jewish American School.1 Bellow's frequent references to Romanticism form a dominant design within his culturally diverse fiction.2 Taken from Bellow's Herzog, my title indicates the two levels on which Bellow's Romantic allusions operate. At one level, this ‘webbed’ pattern of ‘golden lines’ suggests how Bellow interlaces his own prose with the poetry and philosophy of British Romanticism to govern readers' responses to his portrayal of epiphanies. On another, Herzog's moment of inter-connected vision signals Bellow's investment in a Coleridgean and Wordsworthian imagination that reveals the all-pervasive spirit of the ‘[o]ne Life within us and abroad’3. This metaphysical dimension to Bellow's web of ‘golden lines’ finds a further affinity with Shelley's later notion of the ‘web of being’.4

Dissimilarities Between Illusion And Reality In Herzog By Saul Bellow

Think India ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 22 (2) ◽  
pp. 512-514
Author(s):  
K. SUVARNA LAKSHMI ◽  
M. RAVICHAND ◽  
V. B. CHITHRA
Keyword(s):  
Life Time ◽  
Nobel Laureate ◽  
Saul Bellow ◽  
Middle Aged ◽  
Happy Life ◽  
One Stage ◽  
Middle Aged Person ◽  
Aged Person ◽  
Unpublished Letter ◽  
The Dead

Mosses Herzog is a disappointed middle-aged person. He always led his life in illusion. He is expecting more from his life and wants to lead a happy life with family.  But the things come to pass in his life are entirety fluctuate from his expectations. He spends the majority of his life time in illusion only. He has two wives and he predictable more affection and love from them, he disillusioned when he not get his expectations from them. At one stage he planned to murder his former wife. The protagonist, Professor Mosses Herzog has a tendency to write letters that will never be sent to the famous, the dead, his friends, and his family. A prolific Nobel Laureate Saul Bellow inspected the Moses mind with his unpublished letter. The writer exhibits the dissimilarity linking the expectations and reality of the protagonist life with his notable work Herzog.

Freedom and Virtue in Politics: Some Aspects of Character, Circumstances and Utility from Helvétius to J. S. Mill

Utilitas ◽  
1989 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 112-134 ◽  
Author(s):  
G. W. Smith
Keyword(s):  
Early Stage ◽  
Immigrant Parents ◽  
Saul Bellow ◽  
American Mind ◽  
Civilized World

Writing in the foreword to Allan Bloom's The Closing of the American Mind and speaking of his upbringing in Chicago between the wars Saul Bellow attests that…as a Midwesterner, the son of immigrant parents, I recognized at an early stage that I was called upon to decide for myself to what extent my Jewish origins, my surroundings [‘the accidental circumstances of Chicago’], my schooling, were to be allowed to determine the course of my life. I did not intend to be wholly dependent upon history and culture. Full dependency must mean that I was done for. The commonest teaching of the civilized world in our time can be stated simply: ‘Tell me where you come from and I'll tell you what you are’.

Saul Bellow: His Works and His Critics: An Annotated International Bibliography

1980 ◽  
Vol 75 (2) ◽  
pp. 388
Author(s):  
Max F. Schulz ◽  
Marianne Nault ◽  
Alfred F. Rosa ◽  
Paul A. Eschholz
Keyword(s):  
Saul Bellow

L’inquiétude individualiste. Narcisse ou le self américain

2011 ◽  
Vol 32 (2) ◽  
pp. 125-144
Author(s):  
Alain Ehrenberg
Keyword(s):  
Saul Bellow

America, under the jurisdiction of the Archais, or Spirit of Personality, produced autonomous modern individuals with all the giddiness and despair of the free, and infected with hundred diseases unknown during the long peasants epochs. Saul Bellow, Humboldt’s Gift, Penguin Books, 1996 [1975], p.292.

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