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This anthology is particularly designed to meet the growing requirement for critical materials on Bellow’s fiction in Asia. The essays have been carefully selected and categorically divided to facilitate a clear understanding of Bellow’s life and work. What emerges is an interesting account of how Bellow’s experience as man coalesces with his ideas as a writer. The book would be equally helpful to both the beginners and the senior scholars for the enrichment of their critical interest in Bellow’s work. · The Editors.
Saul Bellow: The Man and His Work contains 34 pieces on and by the Nobel Prize winning novelist, one of which was previously published in American Studies International. As the editors note in their introduction, Bellow studies became a “minor industry” in India beginning in the 1970s. The earliest essays in this book are by Bellow himself, “Distractions of a Fiction Writer” (1957) and “Where Do We Go from Here: The Future of Fiction” (1962). Other pieces familiar to Bellow scholars by Alfred Kazin and Richard Stern are included, but the bulk of the articles are from Indian and American scholars that were previously available only in the Saul Bellow Journal, The Indian Journal of American Studies, and Studies in American Jewish Literature. This anthology makes them more accessible. · Bernard Mergen, George Washington University, in American Studies International |
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