HerzogBellow, Saul
9780436039508
Humboldt's Gift
Saul Bellow
ISBN 10: 0436039508 / 0-436-03950-8
ISBN 13: 9780436039508
Publisher: Secker and Warburg
Publication Date: 1975
ISBN 13: 9780436039508
Publisher: Secker and Warburg
Publication Date: 1975
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Editorial Reviews:
Review:"What Bellow is trying to do with the novel form is, of course, immensely ambitious and very difficult. In HERZOG, he brought it off by the letter device and the fine madness of the hero. Charlie Citrine is an interesting study in the competing urges of the flesh and the spirit, money-making and truth-seeking, but he is over-indulged by his creator. The novel would have been vastly improved by ruthless cutting; as it stands it is chiefly memorable for its many comic moments, superb descriptive snapshots of Chicago and brilliant mimicry of lawyers, businessmen and crooks. And that, it must be said, is a lot to be grateful for."
David Lodge, Times Literary Supplement, 10/10/75
Review:"...HUMBOLDT'S GIFT by Saul Bellow is a very funny novel--a kind of Felix Krull in reverse, with society as the confidence man; a fierce energetic comedy about postwar Jewish intellectuals trying to come to terms with American popular culture....Richard Gilman, in these pages, found the book guilty of lacking an 'ineluctable vision.'....Anatole Broyard in the daily Times seemed to feel that Bellow had insulted the late Delmore Schwartz (the von Humboldt Fleisher of the title)..., had turned his back on high culture, and had mindlessly succumbed to the 'anthroposophical' meditations of his narrator....Vivian Gornick in The Village Voice saw little in the novel but male chauvinist piggishness....Somehow, some way, the outsider has got to be elected, if not captain of the American team, then at least head cheerleader. This passion has never been so hilariously rendered....Everybody who is anybody, including a few grumpy friends of mine, has a walk-on part and a pratfall in HUMBOLDT'S GIFT."
John Leonard, New York Times Book Review, 9/7/75
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Book Description: NY, The Viking Press, 1975., 1975. Third Printing. 8vo., 487pp., quarter ocher cloth over yellow paper covered boards. Light soil to spine, else fine in lightly soiled, lightly edgeworn jacket with tanned spine. ISBN: 0670386553. Bookseller Inventory # 04880 Bookseller & Payment Information | More Books from this Seller | Ask Bookseller a Question |
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Book Description: Secker & Warburg, London, 1975. Hardcover. Book Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. In mildly edgeworn/tanned DJ; Black hardback binding. 487 pp; Small 8vo; 487 pages. Bookseller Inventory # 34886 Bookseller & Payment Information | More Books from this Seller | Ask Bookseller a Question |
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Book Description: Secker & Warburg, 1975. Hard Cover. Book Condition: Good Plus. Dust Jacket Condition: Good Plus. First Edition. Octavo. Green cloht with gilt spine titling, three dents on the front board where something heavyish has rested. Jacket is black and cream with bold front titling and a portrait of Bellow on the back, the indents on the boards are reflected also on the jacket, slight rubs top of spine and 2 closed tiny splits, white areas yellowing. The dents from the boards also affect the first few pages of the book. Has been a library book, no stamps but remains of accession sheet on the rear endpaper and an Library sticker on the endpaper. 487 pages. Bookseller Inventory # 005911 Bookseller & Payment Information | More Books from this Seller | Ask Bookseller a Question |
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