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Täysin palkein käsixi Bellowiin
ellauri052.html on line 33: Malamud Bellow ja Roth oli am. kirjallisuuden Hart Schaffner ja Marx, chicagolainen univormutehdas ja miestenvaatehtimo joka kuoli 2009. Halvat ja mauttomat Marxin veljexet. Bellow suhtautui suopeasti 2v vanhempaan Malamudiin, ison Paulin ikätveriin. Se oli vielä maalaisempi, kotosin Oregonista. Samanlaisia kujakatteja kaikki 3, nahattomia ja karvattomia kullikissoja. PST Bellowin maneeri on laittaa rinnastuxia ilman välimerkkejä niinkuin tän kappaleen alussa. Isaac Bashevis Singer ei kuulunut tähän poppooseen, se oli 1. sukupolven maahanmuuttaja.
ellauri052.html on line 37: Belov tarkoittaa valkoista. Bellows on palkeet. Tuluxet on tinderbox. Sale oli kuopus pieni ruipelo, sillä oli 2 ruumiikkaampaa porhoveljeä joiden mielestä se oli vaan "some schmuck with a pen", ja sen isä oli ryssämamu monitoimiroisto hitlerwiixissä. Mamu Belov tuli perheineen Pietarista Kanadaan ja hipsi Chicagoon pakoon razupoliiseja Salen ollessa 9v. Sale oli äiskän hemmokki. Osas juutalaisten raamatun melkein ulkoa. Äiti kuoli kun Sale oli 17. Sale kaipas isän hyväxyntää. Isä kuoli '55, Sale oli sen silmissä epäonnistunut tyhjäntoimittaja. Tie menestyxeen aukes vasta kexi-ikäisenä isän kuoltua.
ellauri052.html on line 58: Henderson the Rain King is a 1959 novel by Saul Bellow. The book's blend of philosophical discourse and comic adventure has helped make it one of his more popular works. It is said to be Bellow's favorite among his books. It was ranked number 21 on Modern Library's list of the 100 Best Novels in the English language.
ellauri052.html on line 64: A week before the novel appeared in book stores, Saul Bellow published an article in the New York Times titled “The Search for Symbols, a Writer Warns, Misses All the Fun and Fact of the Story.” Here, Bellow warns readers against looking too deeply for symbols in his piece of shit. This has led to much discussion among critics as to why Bellow warned his readers against searching for symbolism just before the symbol-packed Rain King hit the shelves. Because there ain't any, its just Solomon's idea of fun and fact. The ongoing philosophical discussions and ramblings between Henderson and the natives, and inside Henderson's own head, prefigure elements of Bellow's next novel Herzog, which includes many such inquiries into life and meaning. And which is an even worse piece of narcissisim than this one.
ellauri052.html on line 66: As in all Bellow's novels, death figures prominently in Henderson the Rain King. Also, the novel manifests a few common character types that run through Bellow's literary works. One type is the Bellovian Hero, often described as a schlemiel. Eugene Henderson, in company with most of Bellow's main characters, can be given this description, in the opinion of some people, and Bellow was another one himself for sure. Another is what Bellow calls the "Reality-Instructor"; in Henderson the Rain King, King Dahfu fills this role. In Seize the Day, the instructor is played by Dr. Tamkin, while in Humboldt's Gift, Humboldt von Fleisher takes the part.
ellauri052.html on line 68: Scholars such as Bellow biographer James Atlas and others have shown that quite a few passages and ideas were lifted from a book titled The Cattle Complex in East Africa (1926) written by Bellow's anthropology professor Melville Herskovits who supervised his senior thesis at Northwestern University in 1937. What a schtekl, to steal from his own professor.
ellauri052.html on line 70: Vizikästä et vaikka muissa suhteissa Hendersonilla ja Eremiitalla ei ole paljon yhteistä, niin naisten polkemisessa ne kazoo toisiaan ihan eye to eye, kirppu ja sonni saman sikolätin aidalla. Plus toi spiritual void. Noita piisaa noita hengellisiä tyhjiöitä, jos on tyhjä pää ja vääränlainen isäsuhe lapsuudesta, ja pelkää naisia. Rothin miälestä Bellow oli verrattoman hyvä kuvaamaan sensitiivistä miestä pahojen naisten kourissa. Roth oli toinen samanlainen. Amerikkalaisia schmuckeja. Philip Teir hännänhuippuna. Ne on kuin Valittujen Palojen vizi: ukko menee ripille ja sanoo olen ollut neljän nuoren naisen kaa yhtä aikaa. Milloin kävitte viimexi ripillä? En koskaan olen juutalainen. No mixi tulette kertomaan tätä sitten minulle? Höh mähän kerron tätä kaikille!
ellauri052.html on line 74: Tää Henderson on hemmetinmoinen tylsimys. Bellowsin on täytynyt olla toinen samanmoinen. Herzogkin oli tylsimys. Citrine on tökerö. Amerikkalaisia moukkia koko roikka. Varmaan se Augiekin, ja se dekaani, joita en ole vielä lukenut.
ellauri052.html on line 81: Hannu Mäkelällä on yhtä monta vaimoa kuin Saul Bellowilla. Kalansilmä vastaan vinosuu. Joku joka on ollut Sale-fan, huomaa lopulta ettei sen kirjoissa ole kuin yxi persoona, eli minä Sale. Sama vika Hannulla.
ellauri052.html on line 83: In his survey of Bellow’s work, Philip Roth writes of Herzog, “In all of literature, I know of no more emotionally susceptible male, of no man who brings a greater focus or intensity to engagement with women than this Herzog,” a man “as lavish in describing the generous mistress as Renoir.” No siinä on pukki kaalimaan vartijana, Roth on mikäli mahdollista pahempi narsisti kuin Sale.
ellauri052.html on line 89: Harold Bloom is right to dismiss Bellow’s female characters of the later novels as “third-rate pipe dreams.” When a reader, holding Humboldt’s Gift in his hands, looks back at Augie March, the journey Saul Bellow has taken in his depiction of people is a very sad one. There is no way to compare the daring, principled Mimi Villars, Augie March’s one equal in oration, to the simple Ramona (Herzog), or to the comically shallow Renata (Humboldt’s Gift). Where is a woman equal to Augie’s Thea in these later books?
ellauri052.html on line 93: It seems that as Bellow re-focused his lens on thought, and a main character’s deliberations over it, the fictional world around that central character darkened and cheapened. As the narrator / protagonist’s internal action grows, around him warmth and depth shrinks, until, by Humboldt’s Gift, it is clear that on a mental level, Citrine is utterly alone.
ellauri052.html on line 95: This falling away of the world then renders the interplay of thought and reflection a sterile joke, as whatever the main character finally decides, there is no outside world for his deliberations to have meaning. Bellow has little choice, in the world of raging shadows he creates, other than to step away from the quest of thought at the climactic moment, and pretend he was only kidding.
ellauri052.html on line 97: The novels remain staggering for their invention, their comedy, their culture, and their mingling of riotous squalor with the precepts of a course in philosophy. Bellow writes with a genius that is hard to fathom. Readers may, however, feel troubled by the books’ frequent difficulty in forming a coherent whole.
ellauri052.html on line 104: Bellow’s most merciless and eviscerating tormenter was his third wife, Susan Glassman, who defeated him in a long, acrimonious and expensive divorce suit. In 1974, after he had fraudulently misrepresented his projected income, the court, hostile to a successful Jewish intellectual, “ordered him to pay Susan $2,500 a month in alimony, backdated to 1968, plus $600 a month child support, plus lawyers’ fees.” Ignoring his own lawyer’s sound advice to settle the case, he surrendered to a self-destructive impulse, continued to appeal and deliberately prolonged his agony.
ellauri052.html on line 108: I heard Bellow deliver the PEN speech on “American Writers and Their Public” to a packed hall in London on March 22, 1986. He had just suffered the death of his brothers and agonising break with Alexandra. Exhausted by jet-lag, stiff-gaited and parchment-skinned, he seemed terribly old and shattered. His talk ranged widely and wildly but, rambling and unfocused, he could not — like Ezra Pound in the Cantos — make it cohere.
ellauri052.html on line 112: Leader defines Bellow’s recurrent themes as “the relative claims of life and work, the intensity of childhood experience, sexual insecurity.” He could have added Jewish life and identity, the perils of matrimony and the defects of modern civilisation.
ellauri052.html on line 122: Bellow punctured the pretentious, unmasked the delusions and deflated the reputations of several intellectual phonies, blackballing LeRoi Jones, Edward Said and Susan Sontag for MacArthur fellowships. He was severely condemned for his provocative but hilarious challenge: “Who is the Tolstoy of the Zulus? The Proust of the Papuans?” But no one ever answered his attack on cultural relativism and he did not apologise.
ellauri052.html on line 124: Vittu mikä kusipää. Ja tämän pyllypään bändärin miälestä Saul Bellow "was the most coruscating stylist, the most brilliant intellect, the most compassionate and great-souled writer in modern American literature." Pahinta on eze voi olla totta, tosi paha todistus Amerikan henkisestä tilasta.
ellauri052.html on line 130: Saul Bellow on keltaisen kirjaston inhokkikirjailijoitani. Kyyninen, raskalla kädellä kirjoittava mastodontti. Hidas ja seisahtunut kuin samea sisäjärvi tuulettomana syyspäivänä. No en tunne Bellowia, tietenkään, mutta sellaiselta miehen kirjojen lukeminen nyt vain tuntuu!
ellauri052.html on line 132: Ja sitten on tämä elitismi. Ei nappaa yhtään. Bellowin piirit ovat suppeita ja suljettuja. Niissä liikkuvat akateemiset ja älykkäät ihmiset. Heillä on runsaasti tiedon ja kulttuurin sivistystä, mutta sydämen sivistystä sitäkin vähemmän.
ellauri052.html on line 133: Bellowin kirjan Löyhäsuinen mies ja muita kertomuksia kansi näyttää, mistä on kyse. Ärsyttävä jäärä suu teipattuna. Hän on vaimolleen, ystäville, rakastajattarilleen ja koko seurapiirilleen yksi pain in the ass.
ellauri052.html on line 135: Bellowin kertoja on useimmiten professori tai vähintäänkin korkeasti kouluttautunut - joka tapauksessa pääkopan sisältä täyttä timanttia. Älykuninkaiden arkkityyppi on Victor Wulpy, joka Millainen päivä sivulla oli -novellissa lennättää rakastajatartaan pikadeiteille lentojen välilaskeutumispaikoille. Victor on lännen älykapteeneita: hankkii elantonsa luennoilla 10 000 dollarin tuntitaksalla. Ja ylläpitää oppineiden nokkimisjärjestystä yli-ihmismäisellä tarmolla ja energialla.
ellauri052.html on line 141: Se on Bellowin mukaan sellaista juutalaishuumoria. No siitä minä en tiedä mitään!
ellauri052.html on line 142: Bellowin kirjat ovat täynnä Alvar Aallon näköisiä miehiä: paksujen kulmien ja veltostuneiden yläluomien alta tuijottaa intensiivinen ja vaativa katse. Kai se on sitä karismaa. Hahmot ovat äärimmäisen itsekeskeisiä, mikä tekee kertomuksista tylsää ja synkeää itsetilitystä.
ellauri052.html on line 144: Itseriitoisia herroja enemmän minua ärsyttävät naiset, jotka suostuvat lennähtämään lentokentälle viettääkseen muutaman tunnin maailmanluokan älyniekan seurassa. Joka tosiasiassa voi juuri ja juuri sietää naista seksipartnerina – ja sitäkin pitää analysoisa kantilta jos toiselta – ja ilmisseuralaisena ei lainkaan. Naiset tunnistavat ansionsa muilla elämän osa-alueilla, mutta eivät silti rohkene haastaa miehiään rohkeasti. Naisten kapina – sepä vasta tekisi Bellowille hyvää!
ellauri052.html on line 146: Bellow kirjoittaa myös juutalaisuudesta, juutalaisena miehenä elämisestä ja kasvamisesta Yhdysvalloissa. Oppineen elämän odotukset olivat varmastikin korkealla – lakimies, opettaja, professori, taitaiteilija tai muuta sen suuntaista – ja suvun paineet suuret. Bellowin kattaus sisältääkin aina kukkuroilleen juutalaista perhe- ja sukurakkautta ja sen analyysiä.
ellauri052.html on line 148: Bellowin kunniaksi täytyy sanoa, että kirjailijana hän on helposti tunnistettava. Arkiseen puheeseen sisältyy älyllistä filosofointia, melankoliaa ja komediaa, nokkeluuksia ja aforismeja. Varmaan siinä on itseironiaakin, mutta sepä jäi tällaiselta tosikkolukijalta huomaamatta.
ellauri052.html on line 150: Bellowin novelleissa haisee ja maistuu elämän ehtoopuoli. Jos Bellow jollekin kirjoittaa niin hieman iäkkäämmille ihmisille. Voi hyvin nähdä hänet lukemassa tekstejään amerikkalaisen huippuyliopiston senioreiden alumni-illassa. Ehkä sellaisessa osaisin itsekin arvostaa Bellowia aika lailla nykyistä enemmän.
ellauri052.html on line 162: Saul Bellowin juuri ilmestynyt uusi romaani Ravelstein kuohuttaa tunteita oikeistolaisissa piireissä Atlantin molemmin puolin. Romaanin päähenkilön Abe Ravelsteinin esikuvana on ollut Bellowin chicagolainen ystävä Allan Bloom, joka nousi maailmanmaineeseen kirjoittamalla populistisen hitin The Closing of the American Mind. Se julisti, että Woodstock-sukupolvi tuhosi kulttuurin suvaitsemalla liikaa ja unohtamalla Kreikan ja antiikin. Kirjan mainetta siivittivät muun muassa Margaret Thatcher ja Ronald Reagan. Bloom kuoli 62-vuotiaana 1992. Kuolinsyyksi ilmoitettiin maksasyöpä. Bellowin Ravelstein on kaappihomo, joka kuolee aidsiin. Tämä on suututtanut Bloomin ystävät.
ellauri052.html on line 164: Bellow, 84, sanoo New York Timesille aliarvioineensa tunteenomaisen suhtautumisen homoseksuaalisuuten ja aidsiin. "Se taitaa olla kovin kutiava aihe, ja ihmisillä on siihen enemmänkin keskiajalle luontuvat asenteet", hän sanoo ja katuu sanankäyttönsä holtittomuutta. Bellow pesee myös kielensä, hän korjailee toiseen painokseen muun muassa Ravelsteinin sukupuolisten mielihalujen kuvauksia.
ellauri052.html on line 171: The novel, which Bellow initially intended to be a short story, is a roman à clef about Bellow's friendship with the poet Delmore Schwartz. It explores the changing relationship of art and power in a materialist America. This theme is addressed through the contrasting careers of two writers, Von Humboldt Fleisher (to some degree a version of Schwartz) and his protégé Charlie Citrine (to some degree a version of Bellow himself).
ellauri052.html on line 286: Horace Tadpole eiku Walpole (24 September 1717 – 2 March 1797) oli aatelinen, talousliberaali, luultavasti äpärä ja todennäkösest ainakin kaappihomo. Suhteellisen turha julkkis jo omana aikanaankin. Se sipsutteli salongeissa rokokoomaisesti puettuna ja puuteroituna lakki kainalossa varpaisillaan. Sen typeristä lausahduxista siteeraa Bellow seuraavaa: it is natural for free men think about money. Why? Because money is freedom, thats why.
ellauri052.html on line 328: "Bellow is a deceptively handsome fellow.
ellauri052.html on line 329: ... I think Mr Bellow is still a good-looking man. Slim but solid, with big Oriental eyes and probably a thick dick.
ellauri052.html on line 478: Selviä narsistitouhoja koko konkkaronkka. Sale on mamu, jutku ja homo tässä järjestyxessä. Lisää aiheesta: A Room of His Own: In Search of the Feminine in the Novels of Saul Bellow. Tekijä Gloria L. Cronin.
ellauri052.html on line 599: Bellow kertoo kaskun Kafkasta ja Steinerista. Kafka innostui Rudin jutuista, sillä oli ollut samanlaisia aivosähkökatkoja. Mut kun ne tapas Prahassa Rudilla oli paha flunssa, se pyyhki räkää hihaan ja kaivoi koko ajan nenää sormella. Kafkaa ällötti. Siihen jäi siltä antroposofia.
ellauri052.html on line 849: Bellow on Chicagon kultahattu Humboldt Parkista.
ellauri052.html on line 851: Bellow’s great subject is his own subjectivity. “If I had as many mouths as Siva has arms and kept them going all the time,” says Joseph, the novel’s Bellow-like protagonist, sounding a little like Walt Whitman, “I still could not do myself justice.”
ellauri052.html on line 855: Well into his career, Bellow combined the confessional with a mid-century notion of alienation, which meant, for Bellow, man’s inability to get outside his own head. (I use the masculine advisedly; Bellow didn’t go deep enough into women’s heads to need to get out of them.)
ellauri052.html on line 856: Leader (Salen elämäkerturi) is statesmanlike, fair-minded. He acknowledges in the introduction that great artists are not necessarily family men and that Bellow helped himself to his friends’ and relatives’ life stories even when they would have preferred their privacy.
ellauri052.html on line 860: His friend and protege Philip Roth has said of him, "The backbone of 20th-century American literature has been provided by two novelists—William Faulkner and Saul Bellow. Together they are the Melville, Hawthorne, and Twain of the 20th century."LOL, runkku-Roth Melvillenä tietysti.
ellauri052.html on line 865: Leader (se elämäkerturi) defines Bellow’s recurrent themes as “the relative claims of life and work, the intensity of childhood experience, sexual insecurity.” He could have added Jewish life and identity, the perils of matrimony and the defects of modern civilisation. The highly disciplined fellow devoted almost every morning to the sacred writing hours from nine to one. Sale ostettiin loppupeleissä Chicagosta Bostoniin. Jasu ja Sale kehu izeään varmaan kilpaa BU:n kekkereissä.
ellauri052.html on line 869: Bellow punctured the pretentious, unmasked the delusions and deflated the reputations of several intellectual phonies, blackballing LeRoi Jones, Edward Said and Susan Sontag for MacArthur fellowships. He was severely condemned for his provocative but hilarious challenge: “Who is the Tolstoy of the Zulus? The Proust of the Papuans?” But no one ever answered his attack on cultural relativism and he did not apologise
ellauri052.html on line 873: Vittu mikä kusipää. Ja yhen pyllypään bändärin miälestä Saul Bellow "was the most coruscating stylist, the most brilliant intellect, the most compassionate and great-souled writer in modern American literature." Pahinta on eze voi olla totta, tosi paha todistus Amerikan henkisestä tilasta.
ellauri052.html on line 880: I heard Bellow deliver the PEN speech on “American Writers and Their Public” to a packed hall in London on March 22, 1986. He had just suffered the death of his brothers and agonising break with Alexandra. Exhausted by jet-lag, stiff-gaited and parchment-skinned, he seemed terribly old and shattered. His talk ranged widely and wildly but, rambling and unfocused, he could not — like Ezra Pound in the Cantos — make it cohere.
ellauri052.html on line 929: Kun Salen halvexima sen vanhin poika psykiatri sanoo suorat sanat paskamaisesta isästään, pörähtään sen kimppuun äkäinen lauma Salen kirjallisia häntäkärpäsiä.
The difficulty Greg Bellow has in grasping his father’s work is almost immediately apparent. His literary interpretations range from calling Humboldt’s Gift (1975) “a novel permeated by death consciousness” to writing that the protagonist of Henderson the Rain King (1959) “chooses a life path that brings him into contact with suffering and death.” (The very phrase “life path” would undoubtedly have made his father cringe.) Ehkäpä, just six että se on osuvaa.
ellauri052.html on line 930: Oddly, Greg expresses frustration with a father “whose deepest desire was to keep his thoughts and his feelings strictly to himself,” as if Bellow did not spend nearly 70 years sharing those thoughts and feelings with millions of readers.
ellauri052.html on line 934: Ultimately, much of the book revolves around a perceived opposition between “young Saul,” the politically radical, amorously multitasking free spirit who raised him, and “old Saul,” the reactionary, race-baiting friend of authority and Allan Bloom who occupied his father’s body for its final 40 years. Greg had a front-row seat for Bellow’s supposed conversion, after the rise of black power and the Six Day War, to the unfashionable conservatism that remains the unspoken reason his books aren’t read much in America today. He is thus well-placed to describe how that change—dramatically evident in Mr. Sammler’s Planet (1970), the neo-con novel par excellence, but also in Herzog—manifested itself in private.
ellauri052.html on line 942: It may be helpful to note here that Bellow’s fame, already growing after The Adventures of Augie March, exploded after the publication of Herzog in 1964—the same year Daniel, his youngest son, was born. By the time the newly rich writer, urged by his third wife, moved into a fancy co-op on Lake Michigan, Greg already possessed enough of what he thought were his own opinions to dislike the white plush carpets, the 11 rooms “filled with fancy furniture and modern art.” Reminding the reader he was “raised by a frugal mother and a father who had no steady income,” Greg says that he “found the trappings of wealth in their new apartment so repellent that I complained bitterly to Saul,” who replied that he didn’t care about the new shiny things so long as he could still write—which he could. “As I always had, I accepted what he said about art at face value,” Greg admits, but he stopped visiting the new place. After the marriage deteriorated and Saul moved out, 3-year-old Daniel, in the words of ex-child-therapist Greg, “took to expressing his distress” by peeing on the carpets. “I have to admit that the yellow stains on them greatly pleased me,” Greg writes—for once showing off the Bellovian touch.
ellauri052.html on line 944: Zachary Leader’s work, though superior to Atlas’s and better than his first volume, still has some serious flaws. He swallows Keith Botsford’s absurd claim that his subject “is a direct descendant of Machiavelli”. Leader constantly tries to connect every person and event in Bellow’s life to their fictional counterparts instead of emphasising his imaginative transformation of experience. Literary agent Andrew Wylie, well named “The Jackal,” poached Bellow from his longtime agent Harriet Wasserman. Varmaan lupas Salelle pyllynamia.
ellauri052.html on line 948: Only his last wife, Janis Freedman, who was 43 years younger, redeemed his marital failures and fulfilled his expectations. Plain and pliant, Canadian, Jewish and well-educated, she devoted her life to Bellow. She became his amanuensis, household major domo, surrogate parent, guardian of the flame and mother of his child when the biblical patriarch was 84. Hiljaiset ja halukkaat, ketterät ja kurvikkaat, sellaiset me haluaisimme. Jasu ja Jörkka yxissä kansissa.
ellauri052.html on line 951: Oppressed and heavy-hearted, Bellow resorted to subtle concealment of competing mistresses, moved around like a man on the run and needed bursts of frenetic activity, “even if it means constant trips to Japan, London, Yugoslavia or Israel to keep one jump ahead” of his emotional entanglements.
ellauri052.html on line 952: Bellow’s portrait of the Romantic author was self-reflective: “The artist is a spurned and misunderstood genius whose sensitivity separates him from and elevates him above the rest of philistine humanity.”
ellauri052.html on line 956: Bellow was accused of being a “lousy” sexual performer, but was more convincingly called a passionate and virile lover. He even had a fling with his black cleaning lady, “about twice as tall as he was, and well built.” No hemmetti, kysyttiinkö siivoojalta miten mini Sale pärjäsi. Tais heiluttaa patonkia porttikonkissa.
ellauri052.html on line 958: During an awkward sexual encounter with Harriet Wasserman, she remembered “asking him for permission, as if it were a museum objet d’art, ‘Can I touch this?’” Many of his mistresses remained in love and in touch with him. Scott Fitzgerald said that Hemingway “needed a new woman for each big book”; Bellow lost a woman with each big book. He spilled sperm as he spilled ink, and sex both interfered with and inspired his writing. Bellow created and lived on turbulence, thrived on chaos, courted conflict and was inspired by personal cataclysm. He reported that one lover (mies vai nainen?) “caused me grandes dificultades in England and in the south, but I finished Sammler just the same.” The bearers of erogenous zones (either sex) made him feel younger, “it was a way of avoiding the Angel of Death,” and he cherished their provocative bitchiness. Bellow’s emotional upheavals — his guilt and remorse, multitudinous failings and need for self-condemnation — made him beat his breast at his private Wailing Wall. Se oli kuin kunkku David jolle tuotiin neitosia pyllynlämmittimixi.
ellauri052.html on line 964: Bellow's wives were Anita Goshkin, Alexandra (Sondra) Tsachacbasov, Susan Glassman, Alexandra Ionescu Tulcea, and Janis Freedman. In 2000, when he was 84, Bellow had his fourth child and first daughter, with Freedman. Goshkin elätti sitä tunarointivuosina. Sen se dumppas kun alko tulla rahaa. Se oli kuin se Jasun ykkönen.
ellauri052.html on line 967: Bellow’s most merciless and eviscerating tormenter was his third wife, Susan Glassman, who defeated him in a long, acrimonious and expensive divorce suit. In 1974, after he had fraudulently misrepresented his projected income, the court, hostile to a successful Jewish intellectual, “ordered him to pay Susan $2,500 a month in alimony, backdated to 1968, plus $600 a month child support, plus lawyers’ fees.” Ignoring his own lawyer’s sound advice to settle the case, he surrendered to a self-destructive impulse, continued to appeal and deliberately prolonged his agony.
ellauri052.html on line 969: The rap against Bellow is that he maligned four of his five wives, especially in his fiction. This is true, and Leader is savvy enough not to take Bellow’s word about them. Wife No. 1, Anita, is shown as the underappreciated mainstay she obviously was. As for wife No. 2, Sondra Tschacbasov Bellow (Bellow called her Sasha), the model for the evil Madeleine, Leader has a scoop: an unpublished memoir shared with him after Bellow’s death. By her own account, Sasha was a vulnerable child-woman lacking basic life skills. From childhood and into her teens, she says, she was the victim of incest committed by her father. When Bellow took up with her, he was 37 and she was 21, a Bennington graduate and a secretary at the Partisan Review. His friends treated her with a sniggering sexism unfortunately unremarkable in the 1950s. At a party Bellow took her to, the critic R. W. B. Lewis, her former professor, drunkenly demanded to
ellauri052.html on line 970: know whether she was sleeping with Bellow yet; “they were all placing bets.” She started an affair with Bellow’s friend Jack Ludwig (the prototype for Gersbach in Herzog) only after she learned of her husband’s many infidelities.
ellauri052.html on line 977: The most important person in Bellow’s life—Maury, his oldest brother. As Leader shows, Maury was both the driving force in Bellow’s Americanization and a major presence in his work. Parents and wives came and went, but Maury remained: Simon in Augie March, Shura in Herzog, Julius in Humboldt’s Gift. As peremptory and violent as their father but more competent, Maury epitomized the cult of power and material success that both fascinated and repelled Bellow. “I recognized in him the day-to-day genius of the U.S.A.,” Bellow said in an interview with Philip Roth. In the same conversation, Roth observed that Maury’s reckless, angry spirit was “the household deity of Augie March.” By the time Maury finished law school, he had already started collecting graft for a corrupt Illinois state representative, skimming off the top for himself and his mother. A charismatic ladies’ man with an illegitimate son, Maury was “very proud of his extraordinary group of connections, his cynicism, his insiderhood,” Bellow told Roth. Maury was disdainful of his brother’s nonremunerative choice of profession, which he considered luftmenschlich—frivolous, impractical.
ellauri052.html on line 979: The rivalry between the brothers may have been even more extreme in life than it was in art. When Bellow won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1976, his brother refused to come to Stockholm for the ceremony. Maury’s grandson reconstructed his thinking as follows: “How dare Saul win the Nobel Prize when I’m really the smart one, I’m the one.”
ellauri053.html on line 76: Hemmetti toi kuolemattomuussikiö on vahva meemi! Sale Bellowilla oli sellainen, ja Söören Luutarhalla. Jos hemmo tosiaan ei haluu ize kuolla sillä on se. Sörkkä kuzui tätä sielua nimellä Personlighed. Vähemmän persoonalliset tyytyy jättää viestikapulan jälkeläisille. Joiltakuilta se putoo kalkkiviivoilla. D'oh!
ellauri053.html on line 785: Tampuurimajurilla on samanlaisia höpähdyxiä kuin Bellowin Salella: et kaikkeus on niinko mun sisällä, tai et mä kurkin sitä jostain oxanreijästä, ja et mä varmaan loppupeleissä pääsen johkin ihme autuuteen. Se on kyl jonkin sortin hulluutta.
ellauri055.html on line 957: Sekä Panu että Taata ize sanoo ezen kirjat perustuu sen omiin kokemuxiin. Niiet elämä ja teos malli sopii Sillinpäähän like a glove, yhtä hyvin kuin vaikka Bellowiin tai Philip Rothiin.
ellauri066.html on line 160: Varhaistuotannossa ennen vallankumousta itsetietoinen, ylpeä ja uhmakas "minä itte" on kokemuksen keskipiste, joka nousee ympäröivän maailman vastakohdaksi. 40-luvulla Aaro liukenee jonkinlaiseen panteismiin. Tää on elämässä menestyneillä narsisteilla aika tavallista, ks. esim Jööttiä tai Sale Bellowia.
ellauri067.html on line 505: ...the women in the class were furious at the books by men. My choices were quite ordinary—Kerouac, Ellison, Roth, Bellow, and Pynchon... “This Set of Holes, Pleasantly Framed”: Pynchon the Competent Pornographer.
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Mircea Eliade ja Saul Bellow
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Belov vaan ei Bellow
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ellauri106.html on line 97: In 2000 Saul Bellow proposed Philip Roth to the Swedish Academy for the Nobel Prize for Literature. The accusation that the academy deliberately overlooks Roth's achievements in selecting the Nobel Prize winner each year has been one of the truisms of international feuilletons since the 2000s. According to some critics, the accusation turned out to be justified in 2008, when the chairman of the jury responsible for the Nobel Prize for Literature made public general reservations about North American literature and denied it deserving of an award. Ulrich Greiner summed up Roth's rejection by the Nobel Prize Committee as follows: “The Swedes, however, love authors who help to improve the world. Philip Roth only adds something to their knowledge about what needs work."
ellauri106.html on line 106: That same year, rather than wait to be drafted, Roth enlisted in the army. Roth enlisted in the Army that year to avoid being drafted and assigned to unpleasant duty like the infantry. Fortunately he suffered a back injury during basic training and was given a medical discharge. Who knows. He returned to Chicago in 1956 to study for a PhD in literature but dropped out after one term. It was a yeasty environment for a young writer. Saul Bellow was a contemporary and with some what similar backgrounds and interests they could not avoid being rivals. During that year he met a lovely shiksa waitress Margaret Martinson, a single woman with a small child. He was smitten. An intense, but often troubled relationship ensued. At the end of the year he dropped out of the U of C and headed to the University of Iowa to teach in its creative writing program. None the less, whatever he may have said, Roth was not happy there, perhaps because the semi-rural Midwesterness of Ames was alien to him. After a while with Martinson in tow he moved on to a similar position at Princeton, another WASP bastion but one with even more prestige. Everyone who knew him recognized Roth as an early comer. He later continued his academic career at the University of Pennsylvania, where he taught comparative literature before retiring from teaching in 1991. Roth started teaching literature in the late 1960s at the University of Pennsylvania. The 1969 feature film adaptation of Goodbye, Columbus coincided with the publication of Portnoy’s Complaint, which soon became a best-seller amid controversy for its prurient content. (Those who've read it will likely not forget Portnoy's "love affair" with mom´s slab of liver in the fridge.)
ellauri106.html on line 175: Word has come that Philip Roth died on Tuesday in New York City at the age of 85. He was widely considered the last of the Great American Novelists of the late 20th Century the peer of heavy hitters John Updike and Saul Bellow. Roth himself believed that the novel, which had ruled for a century as the supreme and exalted American literary form, is doomed to becoming a cult niche in the Age of the Internet for a diminishing educated elite, “I think always people will be reading them but it will be a small group of people. Maybe more people than now read Latin poetry, but somewhere in that range…” Ever a realist, Roth was sanguine with the prospect.
ellauri106.html on line 617: Kuten mainittiin jo albumissa 55, Amerikan 45. presidentti Donald Trump pyrki ikuistamaan punakeltaisen naamansa lakota-intiaanien pyhän vuoren kylkeen. Parempi loppusijoituspaikka olis ollut 20. vuosisadan toxisen maskuliinisuuden Mount Rushmore: Saul Bellow, Norman Mailer, John Updike ja Philip Roth.
ellauri106.html on line 621: Mailer was hugely popular at his peak, but now he’s probably best known for that whole stabbing-his-second-wife awkwardness; Updike is regularly derided as “a misogynist”; and Bellow’s female characters are often, at best, thinly drawn, or full-on bitches and shrews. Now, inevitably, it’s Roth’s turn. Roth’s women were either “vicious and alluring” or “virtuous and boring”.
ellauri107.html on line 429: Groucho Malamud, Chico Bellow ja Harpo Roth olivat kuin Sam Gamgee, Frodo ja Bilbo Baggins, karvavarpaisia babitteja, alamittaisia homunculuxia. Keskiluokan hirviöitä. "Missä kirjoituskone on?" Hupaisaa että Tolkien-leffoissa poroporvarillisista hobiteista on tullut kansalaiskuntoisia rotariveljiä.
ellauri108.html on line 38: Käsitteiden "ikävä mulkero", "kusitolppa" ja "paskiainen" extensioiden objektiivisesta yhtäpitävyydestä todistaa mm. se, että paskiaiset puolustelee ikäviä mulkeroita ja kusitolppia sekä kääntäen. Esim. pikku piipunrassi Grels Teir osoittaa "ymmärtämystä" Ruozin Mengelelle Anders Tegnellille. Sale Bellow kiittelee Philip Rothia ja kääntäen. Öykkärimäinen Trump ja luihu Boris ovat samixia frisyyriä myöten. Etc. etc.
ellauri109.html on line 483: Romaanikirjailijan tehtävään kuuluu tehdä yxityisestä julkista. Onko niin? Linssiludekirjailijat kuten Phillu Wallu Miller Bellow Updike (ilmeisesti, en ole lukenut) ja Knasu ajattelee niin. Oikeammin kirjailija antaa toisen yxityisen kokea mitä se on ize kokenut tai kuvitellut jonkun kokeneen. Koko vitun "yleisö" on siinä ihan sivuasia. Hyvät romskut ovat kahdenkeskisiä. Mut tätähän ei kustantaja ole valmis nielemään. Se tarvii ostavan yleisön ja kohua. Jengiä joka keskustelee viimeisestä bestselleristä ja sen koukuttavasta lukuelämyxestä.
ellauri109.html on line 539: Roth mined his life for his characters from the beginning. He also found himself liberated, as the fifties wore on, by the example of two older Jewish-American writers. Saul Bellow’s “The Adventures of Augie March” helped “close the gap between Thomas Mann and Damon Runyon,” Roth recalled. Bernard Malamud’s “The Assistant” showed him that “you can write about the Jewish poor, you can write about the Jewish inarticulate, you can describe things near at hand.”
ellauri109.html on line 559: He told Bellow of his early work, “I kept being virtuous, and virtuous was destroying me. When I let the repellent in, I found that I was alive on my own terms.”
ellauri109.html on line 581: in 2000, James Atlas’s biography of Bellow appeared. It was a book that Roth had urged Atlas to write, but Bellow hated it, and so, in the end, did Roth. An acidic trickle of disenchantment, especially regarding Bellow’s inconstancy with women and family, runs through it. Oma vika pikku sika.
ellauri142.html on line 270: Humboldtin lahja oli Sale Bellowin suht laaduton romaani. Wilhelm sanoo kirjansa johdannossa: "The expansion of the intellectual life is the sole possession that the individual, to the extent that she participates at all, may regard as indestructible." Minnes Wilho sielu jäi? Aika pakanallista. No voi vaan toivoa että Bhagavadgita on lähempänä jumalaa. Translators note: von Humboldt is groping here to express the idea that language is a sociopsychological vehicle of communication. Sanaa "sosiopsykologinen" ei ollut vielä edes kexitty (onnexi, tekee mieli sanoa).
ellauri144.html on line 537: Iowassa kustantajaa vaihtanut ja muutenkin pullistunut Phillu alkaa tylsistyä Maggiin, toiset naiset on alkaneet kiinnostaa enemmän. Dylan Thomas oli distinguished guest Iowassa 60-luvun alussa. Phillu shtuppii nyt oppilastaan Karen Oakesia, Maggie järkyttyy, ottaa nappeja ja viskiä ja kertoo vessanpytyn ääressä neekerinpissajäynästä. Kurt Vonnegut, Norman Mailer ja Saul Bellow otti Phillun tapaan uudet hanit alle joka lukuvuosi. Se pitää kirjailijan pirteänä. Phillu groomas samaan aikaan ahkerasti Maggien 10-vuotiasta Holly-tyttöä. Maggie oli niin mustasukkainen että Phillu piilotti keittiöveizet auton vararenkaaseen.
ellauri183.html on line 72: Saul Bellow: "Let me add on my own behalf that the accent of hard-won and individual emotional truth is always heard in Malamud's words. He is a rich original of the first rank."
ellauri183.html on line 88: Roth contrasted Malamud’s protagonisz to the exuberant Jewish characters created by Saul Bellow, especially the picaresque Augie March, and his own hypersexual Alexander Portnoy. In effect, Roth said, Malamud had created Jews who were stereotypes, not fully realized human beings like him and Sal.
ellauri183.html on line 481: Venäjänjuutalainen Saul Bellow on kylmiö samaa kaliiperia. Vaan eipä ihme kun seuraa sen luovan kirjoittamisen kerhoa.
ellauri185.html on line 44: Saul Bellowin Einhorn on vielä 1 maailmankirjallisuuden saita luihu koukkunokka juutalainen. Ei savua ilman tulta, sanon hitlerwiixet wäpättäen.
ellauri185.html on line 50: Sale Bellow mainizee Horatio Alger-kirjansa "Augie Marchin seikkailut"1 alussa onnettomat äidit Eevan ja Hannan. Eevan onnettomuudet tiedetään (ne ize ansaitut), mut kuka hiivatti oli Hanna? Mulla on iso aukko raamattutiedossa deuteronomisten kirjojen kohdalla. Vaikka niissä on kosolti mehukkaita juttuja. (1"Kiemurat", kuinka typerää.)
ellauri185.html on line 256: 10.3.2022 klo 9.17 - Oma Profiili: Okei! Saul Bellowin isoäiti luki Anna Kareninan kerran vuodessa.
ellauri185.html on line 373: Everyone ought to regard everyone with respect, that's all. Rispektiä kehiin kuten Saul Bellowin isoäitl Lauschilla. Rakastamisesta ei mitään puhetta. Oliko Parfit juutalainen? Ei vaan pikemminkin Olavi Pylkkänen. He was born in Chengdu, western China, where his parents, Jessie (nee Browne) and Norman Parfit practised preventive medicine in Christian missionary hospitals. Life partner Janet Richards believes Parfit had Asperger syndrome. He pledged to donate at least 10% of his income to effective charities. No brittejä ei verot paljon paina. Ehkä se säästi charityrahat parturimenoista.
ellauri185.html on line 683: Jo näistä lausunnoista, joita eri suuntiin täydennetään ja laajennetaan m.m. kirjoituksessa "Voivatko sotilaatkin tulla autuaiksi" (kyllä hyvinkin!), missä esitetään sotaan nähden sama myönteinen kanta, edelleen lähestyskirjeessä kristilliselle aatelille (jota nuori Saul Bellow luki Einhornin tuhopoltossa kärzänneestä Harvard Classics niteestä) ynnä muissa kirjoituksissa, selvinnee Lutherin periaatteellinen kanta väkivallan käyttöön ja siihen nojautuvaan valtiojärjestykseen. Lutherin asenne meitä askarruttavaan kysymykseen on, kuten näkyy, jyrkästi Tolstoin asenteen vastainen. Lutherin mielestä ei vuorisaarna, niin kuin kristinoppi yleensäkään, kiellä meitä suojelemasta tarpeen tullen väkivoimin ihmiselämän pyhimpiä arvoja. Päinvastoin: kristittykin on sellaiseen suojelupalvelukseen velvoitettu.
ellauri185.html on line 855: In Leader's Bellow biography Vol 2, “Love and Strife,” the novel “Herzog” is published on the very first page and reaches No. 1 on the best-seller list, supplanting John le Carré’s ‘The Spy Who Came In From the Cold.’ Never again would Bellow, about to turn 50 years old, lack for wealth, power, awards or flunkies to stand by him, ready to take his coat and do his bidding. The temptation for someone in his position was to become an insufferable, spoiled monster. And Bellow quickly gave in to temptation.
ellauri185.html on line 857: Bellow’s bad temper in the late ’60s was by no means directed exclusively at would-be biographers, radical students and aggrieved wives. Bellow had so many targets to attack, whether insulting them face to face or in blistering letters or put-downs circulated through intermediaries. One of his favorite one-liners ran: “Let’s you and him fight.” The most salient recipients of Bellow’s bad temper in this biography were his three sons, each from a different mother — the oldest 21 when this volume starts, the youngest just 1 year old and about to be abandoned after yet another divorce.
ellauri185.html on line 861: Bellow didn’t just model some main characters on famous friends, but all characters were taken from life. He was in many ways a very thoughtful and kind person, but I think his need to be the top dog, the best, was very deep.
ellauri185.html on line 863: The irony in Bellow’s soul was that he craved love and experience, and learned to view people coldly and clinically. The writer Amos Oz recalled most vividly from his friendship with Bellow an exchange that they shared privately about death. “I said I was hoping to die in my sleep, but Saul responded by saying that, on the contrary, he would like to die wide awake and fully conscious, because his death is such a crucial experience he wouldn’t want to miss it.”
ellauri185.html on line 865: As previous biographers have discovered, it’s difficult to write an endearing biography of Bellow. “Was I a man or was I a jerk?” Bellow inquired on his deathbed. The answer should be obvious.
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ellauri192.html on line 351: The last American winner was Toni Morrison in 1993. No writer from South America has won since Gabriel Garcia Marquez in 1982. The previous North American winner was Canadian Saul Bellow, who won in 1976 and was a resident of the United States for much of his life. What the fuck he was a Chicago crook, as American as apple pie.
ellauri198.html on line 58: Näin siis nobelisti Bellow. Vapaus, löytämisen ja näkymisen ilo, toivo kaiken toivottomaksi tekevän uhalla ja keskellä, elämän äkkikäänteisyys, moninaisuus, varakkuus, rikkaus! Saul Bellowin Augie Marchin sikailut ei ole vain hauska veijariromaani. Se on myös paxu ja nenäviisas kirja velmusta juutalaisesta ajassamme.
ellauri210.html on line 361: Arthur Cravan, the Dadaist poet-boxer, was neither a good poet nor a good boxer, but he was a legendary provocateur. Hemingway, Mailer, and Scorsese: much great American art has been inspired by boxing. How bout Irving? No he was a wrestler. Between 1907 and 1909, Saul Bellow created three paintings—Club Night, Stag at Sharkey’s, Both Members of This Club—that captured boxing’s glories and indignities. The sport provided a powerfully visceral metaphor for the American experience of the twentieth century. Amerikan nyrkki on sittemmin kumauttanut päähän useampia kansoja kuin kehtaa muistella.
ellauri211.html on line 299: Katri Helena ja Panu Rajala olivat naimisissa vuodesta 1997 vuoteen 2004. Toissavuotisessa Katri Helena -musikaalissa Panu Rajala tuotiin kirjailijan mukaan esiin varsin kyseenalaisessa valossa. Panu Rajalaa ei musikaalissa kutsuttu hänen oikealla sukunimellään, vaan miehestä käytettiin leikkisää nimitystä Proffa. Musikaalissa Proffa liehitteli muita naisia eikä ollut vaimonsa tukena, mikä teki laulajan surulliseksi. Rakkaus rakoili nopeasti. Musikaalista kiukustuneena kirjoittamassaan paljastuskirjassa Rajala sanoo tuovansa kostoxi Katri Helenasta esiin arkisemman puolen. - Tässä tulee ehkä hieman inhimillisiä kosketuksia ja yksityiskohtia, jotka liittyvät tarinan kulkuun ja tähän draaman kaareen. Halusin tuoda joitakin inhimillisiä, arkisempia ja tavallisempia piirteitä tähän hyvin kiillotettuun tähtikuvaan. Koska hän on ollut suuren ihailun vallassa (sic) vuosikymmeniä, niin kyllä siihen liittyy vähän muutakin. Ajattelin, että teen palveluksen tuleville elämäkerran kirjoittajille antamalla tällaista läheltä nähtyä aineistoa, Rajala kertoi.
Lavalla nähtiin rajuja riitoja, joissa kummatkin käyttivät kovaa kieltä toisistaan. Katri syytti Proffaa julkisuudenkipeäksi ja kaksinaamaiseksi liehittelijäksi, Proffa puolestaan haukkui Katria henkien kanssa seurustelevaksi haahuilijaksi. Kaikki repliikit oli poimittu naistenlehdistä. Ranua esittänyt hemmo tuntee esittämänsä henkilön myös todellisuudessa, he ovat tehneet yhteistyötä. Toivon, että Panu Rajala suhtautuu tähän huumorilla, Katri sanoi. Ranu on tollanen Suomen Bellow, Roth tai Knasu, kaunainen narsisti. Panu Rajala harmistui syksyllä 2010 ensi-iltansa saaneesta Katri Helena -musikaalista, koska hänet esitettiin siinä epämieluisassa valossa. Rajala oli musikaalissa Proffa, joka esitettiin suorastaan pellenä, lukeneisuudellaan pröystäilevänä hienostelijana. Panu alkoi panna Marjaa Katrin selän takana. Panu Rajala ja Marja Norha vihittiin Sastamalan vanhassa kirkossa 2007. Panu Rajalan ei tarvitse piilotella sivistyneisyyttään nykyisen vaimovainajansa kanssa. Hän on opettaja! Tai siis oli, ei sekään kestänyt kovaa käyttöä.
ellauri220.html on line 580: Takas Löllöön kesken albumia 221. Wilt Whatman, Dos Passos, John Sinclair, Saul Bellow, Don deLillo, Foster Wallace, ketä vielä olis näitä Amerikan eepoxen väsääjiä? Pynchon olisi paizi että sateenkaarikirja kertoo Euroopasta. Mua ei vois vähempää kiinnostaa Lillon tyhmän pesäpallon kohtalot. Portugalilaissyntyiseltä Dos Passosilta olen muistaaxeni lukenut jonkun New York aiheisen buchleinin joka oli mielestäni silloin aika hyvä.
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Les Aventures de Saul Bellow
ellauri222.html on line 59: Saul Bellowin Einhorn on vielä 1 maailmankirjallisuuden saita luihu koukkunokka juutalainen. Ei savua ilman tulta, sanon hitlerwiixet wäpättäen.
ellauri222.html on line 68: In Leader's Bellow biography Vol 2, “Love and Strife,” the novel “Herzog” is published on the very first page and reaches No. 1 on the best-seller list, supplanting John le Carré’s ‘The Spy Who Came In From the Cold.’ Never again would Bellow, about to turn 50 years old, lack for wealth, power, awards or flunkies to stand by him, ready to take his coat and do his bidding. The temptation for someone in his position was to become an insufferable, spoiled monster. And Bellow quickly gave in to temptation.
ellauri222.html on line 70: Bellow’s bad temper in the late ’60s was by no means directed exclusively at would-be biographers, radical students and aggrieved wives. Bellow had so many targets to attack, whether insulting them face to face or in blistering letters or put-downs circulated through intermediaries. One of his favorite one-liners ran: “Let’s you and him fight.” The most salient recipients of Bellow’s bad temper in this biography were his three sons, each from a different mother — the oldest 21 when this volume starts, the youngest just 1 year old and about to be abandoned after yet another divorce.
ellauri222.html on line 74: Bellow didn’t just model some main characters on famous friends, but all characters were taken from life. He was in many ways a very thoughtful and kind person, but I think his need to be the top dog, the best, was very deep.
ellauri222.html on line 76: The irony in Bellow’s soul was that he craved love and experience, and learned to view people coldly and clinically. The writer Amos Oz recalled most vividly from his friendship with Bellow an exchange that they shared privately about death. “I said I was hoping to die in my sleep, but Saul responded by saying that, on the contrary, he would like to die wide awake and fully conscious, because his death is such a crucial experience he wouldn’t want to miss it.”
ellauri222.html on line 78: As previous biographers have discovered, it’s difficult to write an endearing biography of Bellow. “Was I a man or was I a jerk?” Bellow inquired on his deathbed. The answer should be obvious.
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New Yorker badmouthing Bellow 2015
ellauri222.html on line 83: “I am an American, Chicago born” begins the famous first sentence of “The Adventures of Augie March.” The author of that sentence was actually an illegal immigrant, Canada born, and the words were written in Paris. Bellow’s father, Abraham Belo, was born in a shtetl inside the Pale of Settlement. He began his career in St. Petersburg as a produce broker, specializing in Egyptian onions and Spanish fruit. The family seems to have been quite well off. Abraham had used a forged document to work in St. Petersburg, and, when this was discovered, he was arrested and convicted. He may have gone to prison. But he managed to escape and, in 1913, to get his family to Canada.
ellauri222.html on line 89: But Chicago was a city of immigrants. It also had a large Jewish population—by 1931, according to Leader, nearly three hundred thousand in a city of 3.3 million. All the Bellow children assimilated happily and all became well off. Saul is often associated with the University of Chicago, where he taught for many years as a member of the legendary Committee on Social Thought. He was a student there, but for less than two years. He had to withdraw for financial reasons (a truck driver was killed in an accident at his father’s coal yard and the insurance had lapsed), and he transferred to Northwestern, from which he graduated in 1937.
ellauri222.html on line 91: In his Op-Ed about the Zulu Tolstoy, Bellow made much of his academic training in anthropology. After leaving Northwestern, he did become a graduate student in anthropology at the University of Wisconsin. But he completed just one course before dropping out and returning to Chicago, where he married a woman, Anita Goshkin, who was studying for a master’s degree in social work, and began his career as a fiction writer and itinerant college teacher. His first job was at Pestalozzi-Froebel Teachers College, on South Michigan Avenue, in downtown Chicago.
ellauri222.html on line 95: He also worked for a time at the Encyclopædia Britannica, on the fifty-two-volume “Great Books of the Western World,” under the editorship of Mortimer J. Adler. Bellow was in charge of editing part of the “Syntopicon,” a two-volume digest of the Great Ideas composed by Adler. He had taken one of Adler’s courses at the University of Chicago and had concluded that it was “tomfoolery,” but he seems to have liked the job.
ellauri222.html on line 97: “In college I behaved as though my career was to be a writer, and that guided me,” Bellow later said. There was also the fact that his principal interest was literature, and, until after the war, Jews were rarely hired by English departments. “You weren’t born to it” is the way the chairman of the department at Northwestern clarified the matter when Bellow inquired about graduate school. Leader thinks that this encounter “produced a lifelong antipathy, mild but real, to English departments.” It’s true that there was antipathy. But Bellow would have been interested in a university career only as a means to support his writing. Fiction was his calling. “He was focused, he was dedicated to becoming what he was, from the beginning,” David Peltz, Bellow’s oldest friend, told Leader. “I mean, he never veered.”
ellauri222.html on line 99: Bellow published his first short story in 1941. It came out in Partisan Review—marking the start of a relationship that was key to establishing Bellow’s reputation as the intellectuals’ chosen novelist. Bellow visited New York frequently, and lived there at various points, but he was never comfortable in the city. “I congratulated myself with being able to deal with New York,” he told Philip Roth near the end of his life, “but I never won any of my struggles there, and I never responded with full human warmth to anything that happened there.”
ellauri222.html on line 101: Still, in New York and at Princeton, where he spent a year teaching creative writing, Bellow made friends with many of the critics who dominated literary life in the nineteen-fifties. They found him bright, congenial, and sufficiently bookish, and especially admired what they took to be his poise and real-world savvy. Irving Howe thought Bellow “very strong-willed and shrewd in the arts of self-conservation.” “Even his egocentricity added to his charms,” said William Phillips, the co-editor, with Philip Rahv, of Partisan Review. “Stunning—the ultimate beautiful young Jewish intellectual incarnate,” Alfred Kazin’s wife, Ann Birstein, remembered. Bellow maintained the allure by cultivating just the right amount of aloofness. “I was the cat who walked by himself,” as he put it.
ellauri222.html on line 103: In the culture of little magazines, friendship is the last thing to prevent one writer from reviewing the work of another. As a novelist happy to have well-disposed reviewers, Bellow had an obvious stake in these friendships. But the friends had a stake in Bellow, too. As Mark Greif points out in his important new study of mid-century intellectual life, “The Age of the Crisis of Man,” Bellow came on the scene at a time when many people imagined the fate of modern man to be somehow tied to the fate of the novel. Was the novel dead or was it not? Much was thought to depend on the answer. And for people who worried about this Bellow was the great hope. Atlas quotes Norman Podhoretz: “There was a sense in which the validity of a whole phase of American experience was felt to hang on the question of whether or not he would turn out to be a great novelist.”
ellauri222.html on line 105: So even “Dangling Man,” an awkwardly written book about which Bellow later said, “I can’t read a page of it without feeling embarrassed,” was received as a sign that the novel might after all be up to its historic task. “Here, for the first time I think, the experience of a new generation has been seized,” Delmore Schwartz wrote, in Partisan Review. In The New Yorker, Edmund Wilson called “Dangling Man” a “testimony on the psychology of a whole generation.” When Bellow’s second novel, “The Victim,” came out, in 1947, Martin Greenberg, in Commentary, explained that Bellow had succeeded in making Jewishness “a quality that informs all of modern life . . . the quality of modernity itself.” In Partisan Review, Elizabeth Hardwick suggested that Bellow might become “the redeeming novelist of the period.”
ellauri222.html on line 107: This notion that Bellow’s achievement as a novelist was redemptive of the form was a consistent theme in the reviews up through “Herzog.” So was the notion that his protagonists were representatives of the modern condition. After “Herzog,” those reactions largely disappeared. People stopped fretting about the death of the novel, and Bellow’s protagonists started being treated as what they always were, oddballs and cranks. But the critical reception of Bellow’s books in the first half of his career funded his reputation. It cashed out, ultimately, in the Nobel Prize. Nobels are awarded to writers who are judged to have universalized the marginal.
ellauri222.html on line 109: As everyone has said, Bellow not least, “Augie March” was the breakthrough book. Bellow ascribed its origin to a visionary moment. In 1948, he had gone with Anita to Paris for two years, supported by a Guggenheim fellowship. (Bellow hated Paris.) He was at work on a novel called “The Crab and the Butterfly,” which apparently concerned two men arguing in a hospital room. In the version of the epiphany he told to Roth, he was walking to his writing studio one morning when he was distracted by the routine Parisian sight of the street gutters being flushed:
ellauri222.html on line 115: The subject of “Augie March” is the same as the subject of “Dangling Man” and “The Victim”: the danger of becoming trapped in other people’s definition of you. In the case of “Augie March,” the person in danger of being trapped was Saul Bellow. “This was not what being a novelist was supposed to have meant”: he is referring to the expectations of his intellectual backers. He realized that he didn’t want to be the great hope of the novel or to give voice to a generation’s angst. He wanted to write up the life he knew in the way James Joyce had written up the life he knew, and to transform it into a fantastic verbal artifact, a book that broke all the rules.
ellauri222.html on line 117: The first two hundred pages of “Augie March” are the best writing Bellow ever did. He created an idiolect that had no model. “I am an American, Chicago born . . . and go at things as I have taught myself, free-style, and will make the record in my own way: first to knock, first admitted; sometimes an innocent knock, sometimes a not so innocent.” Nobody speaks or writes that way—which is exactly what the sentence is telling us.
ellauri222.html on line 119: Augie is a street-urchin autodidact. Never taught how to write a proper sentence, he invents a style of his own. He is an epigrammist and a raconteur, La Rochefoucauld in the body of a precocious twelve-year-old, a Huck Finn who has taken too many Great Books courses. With this strange mélange of ornate locutions, Chicago patois, Joycean portmanteaus, and Yiddish cadences, Bellow found himself able to produce page after page of acrobatic verbal stunts:
ellauri222.html on line 123: That’s only an aside, and there are hundreds of them. Jack Kerouac is not the first or even the tenth writer you would normally put in a sentence with Saul Bellow, but “The Adventures of Augie March” is a lot like “On the Road,” a book written at the same time. Stylistically, they both stretch syntax to make the perspective zoom from ground level to fifty thousand feet and back again. Augie is walking with a character called Grandma Lausch into an old-age home:
ellauri222.html on line 129: Bellow must have guessed that “Augie March” would distress some of his admirers. It did. He showed a hundred pages of the manuscript to Lionel Trilling. “It’s very curious, it’s very interesting,” Trilling told him, “but somehow it’s wrong.” When the book came out, Trilling wrote a positive notice in the newsletter of the book club he directed but registered concern about a dangerous notion he detected in the novel, the notion that one could have a meaningful life independent of one’s social function. Bellow wrote to Trilling to say (disingenuously) that he had written the novel without much of a moral purpose in mind. Trilling wrote back. “You mustn’t ignore the doctrinal intention of your book,” he said.
ellauri222.html on line 131: In Commentary, Podhoretz complained that the novel lacked development and that its exuberance was forced. He called it a failure. Podhoretz was one of Trilling’s protégés, and Bellow always believed that Trilling was behind the review, although Podhoretz denied it. But Atlas says that the art critic Clement Greenberg, then an editor at Commentary, having recently come over from Partisan Review, claimed that the editors had put Podhoretz up to it. It was felt in New York circles, Greenberg said, that Bellow had gone a little too far.
ellauri222.html on line 133: Most reviews were enthusiastic, though. “Augie March” was not a best-seller, but it sold well and won a major award. The year it came out, Bellow took a job at Bard College. He and Anita were separated, and he had a new girlfriend, Sondra Tschacbasov, called Sasha. She was sixteen years younger and strikingly attractive. They met at Partisan Review, where she worked as a secretary.
ellauri222.html on line 135: At Bard, Bellow became close friends with a literature professor named Jack Ludwig. As Leader describes him, Ludwig was an oversized personality, a big man, extravagant, a shameless purveyor of bad Yiddish, and an operator. Ludwig idolized Bellow; people who knew them said that Ludwig wanted to be Bellow. He flattered Bellow, went for long walks with him, started up a literary journal with him, and generally insinuated himself into Bellow’s life. Bellow accepted the proffer of adulatory attentiveness. The couples (Ludwig was married) socialized together. This was the period when Bellow wrote “Seize the Day,” which Partisan Review published in a single issue, in 1956, after The New Yorker turned it down, and “Henderson the Rain King,” published in 1959, a novel whose hero was based on a neighbor of the Bellows in upstate New York.
ellauri222.html on line 137: Saul and Sasha got married in 1956, after Bellow had obtained a Nevada divorce. Sasha accepted the domestic role that Bellow insisted on without demur. She says that when they had a son, Adam, Bellow told her that the baby was her responsibility—he was too old to raise another kid. In 1958, Bellow was offered a one-year position at the University of Minnesota. He insisted that Ludwig receive an appointment as well; the university obliged, and the families moved to Minneapolis together.
ellauri222.html on line 139: Saul and Sasha fought. Some of the strains were apparently due to sexual dissatisfaction. Bellow began seeing a psychologist, a man named Paul Meehl; Meehl suggested that Sasha see him as well (a suggestion that Leader charitably calls “unorthodox”). Ludwig served as a sympathetic confidant to both parties. Then, one day in the fall of 1959, Sasha told Bellow that she was leaving him. There was no third party in the picture, she said. She just did not love him.
ellauri222.html on line 141: Devastated, Bellow went to Europe on a cultural-diplomacy junket for the State Department. While abroad, he engaged assiduously in what Leader calls “womanizing.” He returned to Bard, in the summer of 1960, and took up with a visiting French professor named Rosette Lamont. The divorce from Sasha went through in June. For a while, Bellow and Sasha had the same lawyer, who was pleased to be representing both parties in the hottest divorce in town, but eventually Bellow was persuaded to retain his own attorney.
ellauri222.html on line 143: In November, Bellow learned from a possibly overly conscientious babysitter that Sasha and Ludwig were sleeping together. It turned out that the affair had been going on for two and a half years, since the summer of 1958. And although Ludwig was still married, it continued. Adam was living with Sasha while it was going on. Given Bellow’s vulnerabilities, the double betrayal was his worst nightmare come to life. According to Atlas, he talked about getting a gun.
ellauri222.html on line 145: I have just given you the back story and the dramatis personae of “Herzog.” “Herzog” is a novel about a forty-seven-year-old man having a nervous breakdown after learning that his much younger wife, who has left him abruptly, had been cheating on him with his closest friend. The man seeks succor in the arms of a loving, patient, and understanding woman. There is at least one respect in which the novel is not based on real life: Bellow didn’t have a nervous breakdown. He wrote “Herzog” instead.
ellauri222.html on line 147: He also got married again, in 1961, to Susan Glassman, another celebrated beauty, this time eighteen years younger. (Glassman was a former girlfriend of Philip Roth, who said that the transfer of affections “turned out to be the best thing that ever happened to me and the worst thing that ever happened to Saul.” The marriage lasted five years; she was still taking Bellow to court in 1981.)
ellauri222.html on line 149: “Herzog” is a revenge novel. The ex-wife, Madeleine, is a stone-cold man-killer. Her lover, Valentine Gersbach, is described as a “loud, flamboyant, ass-clutching brute.” Ludwig had a Ph.D. and a damaged foot; Bellow makes Gersbach a radio announcer with a wooden leg. The Herzog character is passive, loving, an innocent soul who cannot make sense of a world in which people like his estranged wife and her lover can exist. He is an ex-university professor, the author of a distinguished tome called “Romanticism and Christianity.” The Rosette Lamont character, called Ramona, is a sexpot with a heart of gold; she specializes in intimate candlelight dinners and lacy lingerie. She is a professor of love, not French.
ellauri222.html on line 151: “Herzog” was nevertheless received the way all Bellow’s novels had been received: as a report on the modern condition. Many of the critics who reviewed it—Irving Howe, Philip Rahv, Stanley Edgar Hyman, Richard Ellmann, Richard Poirier—knew Bellow personally and knew all about the divorce. (Poirier was an old friend of Ludwig’s; the review he published, in Partisan Review, was a hatchet job.) None of these reviewers mentioned the autobiographical basis of the book, and several of them warned against reading it autobiographically, without ever explaining why anyone might want to. The world had no way of knowing that the story was not completely made up.
ellauri222.html on line 155: Bellow must have been tickled to death. The inventive feature of “Herzog” is a series of letters that the protagonist, in his misery, composes not only to Madeleine and Gersbach but to famous people (like President Eisenhower) and philosophers (like Heidegger and Nietzsche). These long letters, unfinished and unmailed, are sendups of an intellectual’s effort to understand human behavior by means of the conceptual apparatus of Mortimer Adler’s Great Books. Herzog is a comic figure, a holy fool, a schlimazel with a Ph.D. The whole point of his story is that when you are completely screwed the best you can hope for is a little sex and sympathy. The Western canon isn’t going to be much help.
ellauri222.html on line 159: And it got even better. Jack Ludwig reviewed the novel. He informed readers of Holiday that “the book is a major breakthrough.” By no means should it be read as autobiography—“as if an artist with Bellow’s enormous gifts were simply playing at second-guessing reality, settling scores.” No, in this book, Ludwig wrote, “Bellow is after something greater.” The greater something turns out to be “man’s contradiction, his absurdity, his alienation,” and so on. It was pretty chutzpadik, as even Bellow had to admit. But by then he was laughing all the way to the bank.
ellauri222.html on line 161: You can see the biographical problem. From the beginning, Bellow drew on people he knew, including his wives and girlfriends and the members of his own family, for his characters. In “Augie March,” almost every character—and there are dozens—was directly based on some real-life counterpart. Most of “Herzog” is a roman à clef. Leader therefore decided to treat the novels as authoritative sources of information about the people in Bellow’s life. When Leader tells us about Jack Ludwig and Sondra Tschacbasov, he quotes the descriptions of Gersbach and Madeleine in “Herzog.” In the case of the many relatives with counterparts in “Augie March,” this can get confusing. You’re not always sure whether you’re reading about a person or a fictional version of that person.
ellauri222.html on line 163: One reason for reading biographies of writers like Bellow, who draw from people in their own lives, is to learn what those people were really like, or at least what they were like to someone who is not Bellow. You often can’t do that with Leader’s biography. Leader also wants to assess Bellow’s accomplishment as a novelist. He has to keep three balls in the air at once: the biographical story, an interpretation of the fiction as autobiography, and a consideration of the fiction as fiction. That’s why his book is so long.
ellauri222.html on line 165: Structure was always Bellow’s weak point. One of his first editors at Partisan Review, Dwight Macdonald, worried about what he called a “centerless facility.” Podhoretz was not wrong about the problem of shapelessness in “Augie March.” The novel’s antic style is like a mechanical bull. For a few hundred pages, Bellow is having the time of his life, letting his invention take him where it will. By the end, he is just hanging on, waiting for the music to stop. It takes the story five hundred and thirty-six pages to get there.
ellauri222.html on line 167: Leader thinks that Bellow plunged into his books and wrote on sheer enthusiasm, then surfaced after a hundred pages or so and wondered how to get back to shore. There is very little moral logic to his stories. Things just happen. (A major exception is “Seize the Day,” which is formally perfectly realized. But that book is a novella, a day in the life. It doesn’t require a plot.)
ellauri222.html on line 169: “Herzog,” too, sags in the middle, a long episode in which Herzog reconnects with Ramona. But Bellow came up with a brilliant solution for the second half. Waiting in a courthouse to see his lawyer, Herzog sits in on a trial. A woman and her boyfriend are being tried for murdering her small child, whom they have tortured and beaten to death. The woman is mentally unfit; Herzog hears evidence that she has been diagnosed with a lesion on her brain. (A diabolical touch: Sasha had been diagnosed with a brain lesion.)
ellauri222.html on line 173: Actually, these episodes were not entirely invented. Bellow lifted them straight out of “The Brothers Karamazov.” A child tortured by its parents is Ivan Karamazov’s illustration of the problem of evil: what kind of God would allow that to happen? And Herzog with his gun at the window is a reënactment of Dmitri Karamazov, the murder weapon in his hand, spying through the window on his father. Dmitri is caught and convicted of a murder he desired but did not commit. “Herzog,” though, is a comedy. The next day, Herzog gets in a minor traffic accident and the cops discover the loaded gun in his car. But, after some hairy moments in the police station, he is let go. Desperately searching the Great Books for wisdom, Herzog briefly finds himself living in one. He can’t wait to get out.
ellauri222.html on line 175: The decorum in Bellow criticism is to acknowledge the original of the fictional character when the person is famous, and otherwise to insist on treating it all as fiction. Thus everyone knows that, in “Humboldt’s Gift,” Von Humboldt Fleisher “is” Delmore Schwartz, and that, in “Ravelstein,” Abe Ravelstein “is” Allan Bloom, the Chicago professor who wrote “The Closing of the American Mind” and was a good friend of Bellow’s.
ellauri222.html on line 177: But “Ravelstein” is a revenge novel, too. It’s not really about Ravelstein/Bloom. It’s about the narrator, a writer named Chick, who has been treated cruelly by his wife, Vela, a beautiful and brilliant physicist—a wicked caricature of Bellow’s fourth wife, the mathematician Alexandra Ionescu Tulcea. There are also a couple of drive-by take-downs along the way—of Mircea Eliade, a historian of religion at Chicago rumored to have been involved in the fascist Romanian Iron Guard, and of the owner of a restaurant on St. Martin, in the Caribbean, where Bellow contracted a case of food poisoning that nearly killed him. He brings them into the story just to skewer them.
ellauri222.html on line 179: Podhoretz told Leader that he considered all of Bellow’s characters puppets. And there is something animatronic about them. This is especially true in “Augie March,” where the extended procession of too vivid personalities is like a Wes Anderson movie. Bellow tended to make his characters look the way a child sees grownups, unalterable cartoons, weirdly unself-conscious in their one-dimensionality.
ellauri222.html on line 181: But there is usually one fully imagined character in Bellow’s books, one character whose impulses the author understands and sympathizes with, whose sufferings elicit his compassion, and whose virtues and defects, egotism and self-doubt, honorable intentions and less than honorable expediencies are examined with surgical precision and unflinching honesty. That character is the protagonist—Augie, Herzog, Chick, even Tommy Wilhelm, in “Seize the Day,” who tries to leverage his pain to win respect. Their real-life counterpart is, of course, Saul Bellow, whose greatest subject was himself.
ellauri222.html on line 186: Also Known As: "Shlomo" Bellows
ellauri222.html on line 200: Father: Abraham Bellows
ellauri222.html on line 202: Siblings: Maurice Bellows, George?
ellauri222.html on line 203: Children: Greg Bellow, Adam Bellow, Daniel Bellow, Rosie?
ellauri222.html on line 205: Adam Bellow is executive editor at Bombardier Books, a politically conservative imprint at Post Hill Press. He previously founded and led the conservative imprints All Points Books at St Martin's Press and Broadside Books at HarperCollins, served as executive editor-at-large at Doubleday, and as editorial director at Free Press, publishing several controversial conservative books such as Illiberal Education, The Real Anita Hill, The Bell Curve, and Clinton Cash.
ellauri222.html on line 209: Greg's mother was Anita Goshkin, Saul's first wife, whose family had emigrated to the US from the Crimea after the pogroms, as Bellow's own antecedents had left Lithuania for Canada. They ended up in Chicago, where Saul would become one of the city's most famous sons and where, in 1935, he met Anita at summer school. Anita oli niin tavis ettei siitä ole edes nettikuvia. Tollanen Liisa Karhunen.
ellauri222.html on line 221: Bellow was born Solomon Bellow in Lachine, Quebec, in 1915, two years after his parents had arrived there from St Petersburg. When he was nine, the family moved to the Humboldt Park neighbourhood of Chicago. His mother, Liza, died when Saul was 17, but not before she had passed on to him her love of the Jewish Bible (he learned Hebrew at four). His first serious critical success was The Adventures of Augie March (1953), but it was not until his 1964 novel, Herzog, became a bestseller that he earned any real money. His elder brothers, both businessmen, were by this time making serious cash, and regarded him, he once said, as "some schmuck with a pen". Mary Cheever, the wife of John Cheever, believed the two got on so well because "they were both women-haters". He has nothing good to say about feminism. Bellow has a go at Hannah Arendt and Mary McCarthy (the one is "rash", the other "stupid"). In 1994, however, he ate a poisonous fish in the Caribbean, and fell into a coma that lasted five weeks. He dreaded a loss of virility.
ellauri222.html on line 225: Jänisrouva sanoi jälkikäteen: He did not want to hurt the people he loved. (Lucky they were so few of them. At 17, he said he hated himself more than melodrama or even spinach.) There wasn't a single part of my being that wasn't able to open up to him (Yeah, I bet). Jänis Bellow was born in Canada. Bellow was one of her professors. She came from a small place, but not too small for Saul to enter. He wasn't exactly tall, but he had this broad upper body, these giant arms, like a sloth."
ellauri222.html on line 701: Augie on tyyten kirjoitettu ulkomailla, enimmäxeen Ranskassa. Se kyllä näkyy siitä. Samanlaista expatriaattifiilistä kuin Ernestolla. Bellow traveled widely throughout his life, mainly to Europe, which he sometimes visited twice a year. As a young man, Bellow went to Mexico City to meet Leon Trotsky, but the expatriate Russian revolutionary was assassinated the day before they were to meet.
ellauri222.html on line 723: Saul Bellow is widely recognized as America's preeminent living novelist. His fiction, which is as intellectually demanding as it is imaginatively appealing, steadfastly affirms the value of the human soul while simultaneously recognizing the claims of community and the demoralizing inauthenticity of daily life. Refusing to give in to the pessimism and despair that threaten to overwhelm American experience, Bellow offers a persistently optimistic, though often tentative and ambiguous, alternative to postmodern alienation. In their struggle to understand their past and reorder their present, his protagonists chart a course of possibility for all who would live meaningfully in urban American society and make loads of money.
ellauri222.html on line 725: Bellow's first two novels, Dangling Man and The Victim, are brief and disciplined works, darker in mood and less intellectually complex than the later fiction but featuring protagonists who anticipate later Bellovian heroes both in their introspection and in their resistance to urban apathy. In Paris, Saul realized he need not copycat Flaubert and that instead he could write as he spoke. The result was Augie.
ellauri222.html on line 727: The first novel to display Bellow's characteristic expansiveness and optimism, The Adventures of Augie March presents a dazzling panorama of comically eccentric characters in a picaresque tale narrated by the irrepressible title character, who defends human possibility by embracing the hope that "There may gods turn up anywhere." Subsequent novels vary in tone from the intensity of Seize the Day to the exuberance of Henderson the Rain King to the ironic ambiguity of Herzog, but all explore the nature of human male freedom and the tensions between the individual's need for self and the needs of society. Augie March, Tommy Wilhelm, Eugene Henderson, and Moses Herzog all yearn to please themselves by finding the beauty in life. By creating these highly individualistic characters and the milieu in which they move, Bellow reveals the flashes of the extraordinary in the ordinary that make such fun possible and rejects the attitude that everyday life must be trivial and ignoble. It is like that just for the losers.
ellauri222.html on line 733: In their quest to find the beaver that gives meaning to life, Bellow's protagonists must also come to terms with death. The message Bellow conveys in almost all of his novels is that one must fear death to know the meaning of life and what it means to be human. Henderson overcomes his fear of death when he is buried and symbolically resurrected in the African king Dahfu's experiment. Similarly, in Seize the Day, Tommy Wilhelm confronts death in a symbolic drowning. Charlie Citrine in Humboldt's Gift echoes Whitman in viewing death as the essential question, pointing out that it is only through death that Sauls can complete the cycle of life by liberating self from the body. Bellow's meditations on death darken in Mr. Sammler's Planet and The Dean's December. While the title character in Mr. Sammler's Planet eagerly awaits the death of the person he most values in the world, Bellow contemplates the approaching death of Western culture at the hands of those who have abandoned humanistic values. The Dean's December presents an apocalyptic vision of urban decay in a Chicago totally lacking the comic touches that soften Charlie Citrone's portrait of this same city as a "moronic inferno" in Humboldt's Gift. An uncharacteristically bleak yarn from he old standup comic. With More Die of Heartbreak and the recent novellas, however, Bellow returns to his more characteristic blend of pathos and farce in contemplating the relationship between life and death. In the recent Ravelstein, Bellow once again charts this essential confrontation when Saul recounts not only his best friend's death from AIDS but also his own near-death experience from food poisoning. Through this foreground, in a fictionalized memoir to his own gay friend Allan Bloom, Bellow reveals the resilient love and tenderness that offer the modern world its saving grace.
ellauri222.html on line 739: Some common synonyms of gay are animated, lively, sprightly, and vivacious. While all these words mean "keenly alive and spirited," gay stresses complete freedom from care and overflowing spirits. the gay spirit of Paris in the 1920s. Bellow and his gay chummies in Chicago.
ellauri222.html on line 757: Because Bellow refuses to devalue human potential in even his bleakest scenarios, his novels often come under attack for their affirmative endings. Augie hails himself as a new Columbus, the rediscoverer of America; Henderson, while triumphantly returning home with his new charges, dances with glee, "leaping, leaping, pounding, and tingling over the pure white lining of the grey Arctic silence." Herzog inexplicably evades his fate, emerging from the flux of his tortured mind to reclaim his sanity and his confidence in the future. Yet, the victories of Bellow's heroes are not unqualified, but rather as ambiguous and tenuous as is the human condition itself. As a new Columbus, Augie speaks from exile in Europe; in holding the orphan child, Henderson recalls the pain of his separation from his own father; by renouncing his self-pity and his murderous rage at his ex-wife Madeleine, Herzog reduces but does not expiate his guilt. Nonetheless, these characters earn whatever spiritual victory they reap through their penes and their refusal to succumb to doubt and cynicism. Through their perseverance in seeking the truth of human existence, they ultimately renew themselves by transcending to an intuitive spiritual awareness that is no less real because it must be taken on faith.
ellauri222.html on line 759: In all of Bellow's works, an appreciation of the cultural context in which his protagonists struggle is essential to understanding these characters and their search for renewal. Bellow's vision centers almost exclusively on Jewish male experience in contemporary urban America. Proud of their heritage, his heroes are usually second-generation Jewish immigrants who seek to discover how they can live meaningfully in their American present while honoring their skinless knobs. Much of their ability to maintain their belief in humanity despite their knowledge of the world can be attributed to the affirmative nature of the Jewish culture. Bellovian heroes live in a WASP society in which they are only partially assimilated. However, as Jews have done historically, they maintain their concern for morality and community despite their cultural displacement.
ellauri222.html on line 761: Though in some ways separated from American society, Bellow's protagonists also strongly connect their identity with America. Augie begins his adventures by claiming, "I am an American, Chicago born—Chicago, that somber city." Almost all of Bellow's novels take place in an American city, most often Chicago or New York. Through his depiction of urban reality, Bellow anchors his novels in the actual world, and he uses the city as his central metaphor for contemporary materialism. Although recognizing the importance of history and memory, Bellow's novels maintain a constant engagement with the present moment. His characters move in the real world, confronting sensuous images of urban chaos and clutter that often threaten to overwhelm them. Looking down on the Hudson River, Tommy Wilhelm sees "tugs with matted beards of cordage" and "the red bones of new apartments rising on the bluffs." Sammler denounces contemporary New Yorkers for the "free ways of barbarism" that they practice beneath the guise of "civilized order, property rights [and] refined technological organization." In Humboldt's Gift, which is replete with images of cannibalism and vampirism, Charlie Citrone sees Von Trenck, the source of his material success, as "the blood-scent that attracted the sharks of Chicago." Acknowledging the influence of the city on his fiction, Bellow himself has remarked, "I don't know how I could possibly separate my knowledge of life such as it is, from the city. I could no more tell you how deeply it's gotten into my bones than the lady who paints radium dials in the clock factory can tell you." However, although the city serves to identify the deterministic social pressures that threaten to destroy civilization, Bellow's heroes refuse to become its victims and instead draw on their latent nondeterministic resources of vitality to reassert their uniquely American belief in individual freedom, as well as their faith in the possibility of community.
ellauri222.html on line 763: Except for Clara Velde in A Theft, the protagonists in Bellow's novels and novellas are all male. The Bellovian hero typically seeks erotic pleasure, emotional security, and egoistic confirmation from the women in his life. In marriage, his relationships with women are conflicted, and he often retreats from his role as husband to a sensuous but selfish and demanding wife who paradoxically represents both his yearning for freewheeling sex happiness and society's pressure to relinquish the freedom so essential to his self-realization. Like his male characters who all are Saul lookalikes, Bellow's females are often interchangeable and serve roles of little dramatic import. However, although the author has come under increasing criticism for his superficial treatment of women, his depiction of women and male-female relationships serves to reinforce the psychological crisis that each male protagonist must negotiate to empty their scrotums so as to achieve peace and fulfillment.
ellauri222.html on line 765: Stylistically, Bellow's fiction reflects some of the same tensions that his protagonists seek to balance. His concern with social and personal destruction has been traced to the common run of European writers such as Flaubert, Dostoevsky, Kafka, Sartre, and Camus. But Bellow's fiction also has many ties to the American literary tradition. His neotranscendentalism (what? Emersonian tomfoolery I guess), his identification with America, and the loose form of his most acclaimed novels link him most obviously to Emerson and Whitman.
ellauri222.html on line 785: An intensely intellectual writer who peppers his novels with allusions, Bellow draws on many cultural traditions in his analysis of both the sources of American experience and its present manifestations. His fiction fully documents the decline of Western civilization without conceding its obvious demise, and the ambiguity and tenuousness of even his most positive endings balance sadness and comic skepticism with the steadfast faith that he the artist can effect coherence and order, or failing that a lot of cash, out of the chaos of modern experience. His tip for success: kusettakaa minkä jaxatte! For his achievement in confronting the modern existential dilemma with compassion and humor, Bellow's place in twentieth-century American literary history seems assured by drooling groupies like myself.
ellauri222.html on line 803: British critics tend to regard the American predilection for Big Novels as a vulgar neurosis — like the American predilection for big cars or big hamburgers. Oh God, we think: here comes another sweating, free-dreaming maniac with another thousand-pager; here comes another Big Mac. First, Dos Passos produced the Great American Novel; now they all want one. Yet in a sense every ambitious American novelist is genuinely trying to write a novel called USA. Perhaps this isn’t just a foible; perhaps it is an inescapable response to America – twentieth-century America, racially mixed and mobile, twenty-four hour, endless, extreme, superabundantly various. American novels are big all right, but partly because America is big too. You need plenty of nerve, ink and energy to do justice to the place, and no one has made greater efforts than Saul Bellow. In 1976 Bellow was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature, praised by the Swedes ‘for human understanding and subtle analysis of contemporary culture’. Many times in Bellow’s novels we are reminded that ‘being human’ isn’t the automatic condition of every human being. Like freedom or sanity, it is not a given but a gift, a talent, an accomplishment, an objective. The busiest sections of the Chicago bookstores, I noticed, were those marked ‘Personal Growth’.
ellauri238.html on line 583: Pena suomensi Bellowilta pari nidettä, Tuula2n aikana Herzogin. Aihe sopi sille hyvin, vaikkei se osannutkaan englantia kunnolla. Siinä ylpistynyt juho suomensi toista samanlaista. Varmaan se lunttasi jostain ruozinnoxesta. Ei se ollut oikein hyvä oikein missään.
ellauri247.html on line 236: Veijariromaanit olivat tavallista suositumpia ensimmäisen ja toisen maailmansodan jälkeisinä vuosina. Nykyajan veijariromaaneissa on perinteiselle veijarihahmolle tuntemattomia moralistin ja anarkistin piirteitä. He ikään kuin edustavat viattomuutta ja kriittistä ajattelua turmeltuneen ja vieraannuttavan maailman keskellä. Moderneja veijariromaaneja ovat esimerkiksi tšekki Jaroslav Hasekin Osudy dobrého vojaka Svejka za svétové valky (1920–1923, Kunnon sotamies Svejkin seikkailut maailmansodassa), yhdysvaltalaisten John Steinbeckin Tortilla Flat (1935, Ystävyyden talo) ja Saul Bellow'n The Adventures of Augie March (1953, Augie Marchin kiemurat) sekä saksalaisten Thomas Mannin Bekenntnisse des Hochstaplers Felix Krull (1954, Huijari Felix Krull), Günter Grassin Die Blechtrommel (1959, Peltirumpu) ja Heinrich Böllin Ansichten eines Clowns (1963). Mannin teoksessa – kuten veijariromaaneissa usein – korostetaan huijariuden ja taiteilijuuden yhteyttä. Peltirummun rumpali Oskar Matzerath on varsin perinteinen veijarityyppi: hän lopettaa kasvamisensa kolmivuotiaana ja tarkkailee yhteiskuntaa kääpiöperspektiivistä saattaen naurettaviksi kaikki ideologiat.
ellauri316.html on line 341: PEN International sekä yksittäiset kirjailijat, kuten WH Auden, William Styron ja Hannah Arendt ilmaisivat närkästyksensä. Muut, jotka vetosivat kirjoittajien vapauttamiseen, olivat Heinrich Böll, Günter Grass, Lillian Hellman, Saul Bellow, Norman Mailer, Robert Lowell, Philip Roth, Marguerite Duras ja Philip Toynbee. Sinyavskyn ja Danielin tuomion jälkeen Graham Greene pyysi epäonnistuneesti, että heidän rojaltinsa Neuvostoliitossa maksettaisiin heidän vaimoilleen. Tuolloin tuore Nobel-palkittu Mihail Šolohov kutsui kahta kirjailijaa "ihmissusiksi" ja "mustan omantunnon roistoiksi", jotka olisivat saaneet huomattavasti ankaramman rangaistuksen "ikimuistoisella 20-luvulla". Elinkautinen kommunisti Louis Aragon julkaisi huolensa julistuksessa L'Humanitéssa, ja yhdessä Jean-Paul Sartren kanssa kieltäytyi myöhemmin osallistumasta Neuvostoliiton kirjailijoiden kymmenenteen kongressiin. Kova isku diktatuurille.
ellauri341.html on line 263: Aloitettuaan kirjeenvaihdon Mircea Eliaden, tuolloin Yhdysvalloissa asuneen suuren romanialaisen uskontohistorioitsijan kanssa (sen Saul Bellowin vittumaisen naapurin), jota kommunistit pitivät "kansan vihollisena", Gregorian Bivolaru joutui salaisen poliisin ensimmäiseen kierrokseen kotonaan. vuonna 1971, ennen kuin hän täytti 20 vuotta. Absurdilla tekosyyllä etsiä kadonneita naisia varastosta, kolme salaisen poliisin agenttia sai tehtäväkseen ryöstää talon. Itse asiassa he halusivat pelotella häntä ja he ottivat pois kaikki hänen henkisyyttä käsittelevät muistikirjat, kaikki kopiokirjat, muistiinpanot sekä pornokuvat, joita vaihdettiin ulkomailta tulleiden ihmisten kanssa. Näin alkoi salaisen poliisin 19 vuotta kestänyt terrori ja häirintä - joulukuuhun 1989 asti, jolloin Ceausescun hallinto kaatui.
ellauri347.html on line 204: 1976 Saul Bellow Yhdysvallat / Kanada "inhimilliseen ymmärrykseen ja nykykulttuurin hienovaraiseen analyysiin, joka on yhdistetty hänen töihinsä
ellauri347.html on line 581: Ehkä kuolema ei sittenkään ole kaiken loppu? kysyy Ontto kuin Saul Bellow ja Cicero. No ei tietystikään, muuthan jää tänne vielä olemaan. Ontto ei tiedä että lauantaista laskien kolmas päivä on maanantai. Naureskelee kuitenkin kun leipäpapit poikkeavat protokollasta.
ellauri370.html on line 528: En jää odottamaan, että tasa-arvon ystävät näyttävät minulle sellaisia katkelmia lähetyssaarnaajien tai merikapteenien kirjoittamissa kirjoissa, joissa julistetaan, että joku wolof on taitava puuseppä ja joku hottentotti hyvä palvelija, että joku kafferi tanssii ja soittaa viulua tai että bambara osaa aritmetiikkaa. Jättäkäämme syrjään tällaiset lapsellisuudet ja verratkaamme toisiinsa ryhmiä, ei yksilöitä. Valkoisissakin on joitakin pukinpartaisia jyrsijännäköisiä ääliöitä! Mutta ne ovat poikkeuxia säännöstä. Miksi huron ei aikojen kuluessa ole keksinyt kirjojen painamista tai höyrykonetta? Missä on musta Tolstoi tai Dostojevski, ihmetteli seemiläinen Bellow. No niillä oli yxinkertaisesti liian lokoisat oltavat, banaanit ihan käden ulottuvilla ja lämmintä. Ei tarvinnut angstata.
xxx/ellauri027.html on line 1344: Äänessä on jälleen vetelä etiikan professori Timo Airaxinen. Kuulostaen Flaubertin ja Saul Bellowin sekotuxelta.
xxx/ellauri056.html on line 227: Hupasaa miten kirjailijat kohentaa naismenestystään rompskuissaan, noloista tyräyxistä tulee mahtavia scoreja. Dumppaavista naisista halukkaita misuja. Dickens, Sillinpää, Rusoo, Jöötti, näistä tulis taulukko. Tai sit hylyistä tulee tyhmiä rumia ilkimyxiä, esim Bellow ja Philit Roth ja Teir. Vähän sellaista autofiktiota, piippu-unta. Piipunrassit panee kynällä ize piirrettyjä pinuppeja, paperitiikereinä ruittaa kaunaisesti hylkääjien naamaan mustetta.
xxx/ellauri057.html on line 994: Wang Wei: Aha, ei siis just nytten. Oon lukenu kax Teirin romskuu, ja ne on kuin teini teeskentelis Sale Bellowia tms. Uusinta en oo lukenu.
xxx/ellauri059.html on line 585: Tätä soopaa siteeraa dallaspulla kieli poskessa, mutta siihen turvaa vakavissaan Bellow Saul">Valkee Sale, seuranaan kokonainen konkkaronkka muita narsistisia solipsisteja. Oikeasti siitä ei seuraa mitään sen kaltaista. Apinoita syntyy, elää ja kuolee koko ajan ja häviää kuin pieru saharaan. Valo sammuu, haju jää. Ei see misään, ei see misään, länseen isään, länseen isään, riissnää seukaloisa.
xxx/ellauri121.html on line 338: Atwoodin zargat noobeliin tais mennä kunse toinen vanha vaahteranlehtinen tuli valituksi hiljan sen sijasta, Alice Munro nimittäin 2013. Ton vaatimattoman kuvernöörin palkinnon se sai, ja joitain bookereita. Se syntyi 1939, eli nyt on jo yli 80 lasissa. Rahnaa on kyllä tullut ikkunoista ja ovista. Ja kiltti mies, vaikka vainaja. On se vähän tollanen Milli-Molli tapaus, paizi tota Noobelia, jonka suhteen sille kävi heikosti kuten Philip Rothille Saul Bellowin ansiosta: toinen liian samanlainen kummajainen ehti viedä pokaalin.
xxx/ellauri126.html on line 298: Tasolla 1 turva alkaa löytyä omasta sisimmästä eikä toisista. Hitto jos tää ei ole täydellistä narsismia niin mikä on? Täähän kuulostaa ihan Saul Bellowilta vanhana. Mä en voi kuolla koska koko Kosmos kuolisi mun mukana. Siinä menis kerma koko Suomen kirjailijakunnasta.
xxx/ellauri127.html on line 506: Kuka vitun Ernestine? Tottakai Walter oli oikeassa ja Pili väärässä. Pili möi isoäitinsä tullaxeen kuuluisaxi jenkkijulkkixexi, mutta Noobelipa meni samanrotuiselle mutta vanhemmalle Saul Bellowille, hähä. Yli sadasta noobelistista on 16 halkiohaaroja. Jotain rajaa sentään, tuumii Zuckermann. Monikohan on juutalaisia? Yli puolet ainakin on saaneet palkintonsa poliittisista näkökohdista.
xxx/ellauri130.html on line 338: Mulla on joku Ionescon näytelmä, olen lukenutkin se. Siinä oli jotain huvittavaa sarvikuonoista, ne piti jotain hassua ääntä kun ne laukkasivat kaduilla. Märisi? No joo. Loput olen jo unohtanut. Cioran tapasi Eugenen Bukarestissa. Niin ja Mircea Eliaden, josta Saul Bellow teki pilkkaa jossain kirjassa. Mircealla oli jotain hämäriä nazitaustoja.
xxx/ellauri138.html on line 271: "I am against the holocaust of anything," said Claire Bloom. Roth was invested serving much of his own paper trail, said Avishai. He started donated their papers to the Library of Congress in the 1970s, and the institution amassed some 25,000 articles from 1938 to 2001, including correspondence with Bloom, Updike, Saul Bellow and Cynthia Ozick. After Roth's death, the library acquired more material, including correspondence, drafts, research notes, autobiographical notes, and other personal effects. Vitun hamsteri.
xxx/ellauri139.html on line 1065: Samanlaista egohölpötystä kuin kaikilla muilla narsisteilla, esim vaikka Saul Bellowilla. Ippolitin lähetyspistoolista ei kuulunut kuin naxahdus, koska se oli unohtanut nallin nallipyssystä. Muka vahingossa, LOL.
xxx/ellauri173.html on line 927: ― Riittää, kun huomaa tarkata katsetta, jolla moderni nainen kääntyy ympärilleen, katsoo ohikulkijattaren pukua, niin on siitä ikuisesti vakuuttunut. ”Koska hänessä, intohimoisesta näkökulmasta katsottuna, turhuuksien turhuus hallitsee tai tikistää parempia motiiveja ja koska rakastus on (kaikista vastalauseista huolimatta) hänelle lähes aina vain toissijaista. Olla vain suositeltavampi, se on kaikki mitä hän haluaa. Tämä on tämän sfinksin ainut sana. Valize minut, arvaa tai syön sinut. Tästä syystä jokainen meidän sivistynyt kaunottaremme, harvoja poikkeuksia lukuun ottamatta, aina jossain määrin halveksii häntä, joka rakastaa hiäntä, koska jälkimmäinen on jo yksin syyllinen siihen korvaamattomaan rikokseen, ettei hän enää vertaa hiäntä muihin. Nuuskii vaan muita hameenalusia. Kun taas Don Juan ja Casanova, Byron, Goethe, Bellow, Roth - no riittäköön tästä aiheesta. You get the point.
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xxx/ellauri178.html on line 43: Myöhempien aikojen lukijat, jotka pääsevät perehtymään Philip Rothinkin kaltaisen, yksityisyyttään tiukasti varjelevan kirjailijan salaisuuksiin, voivat kivuttomasti varmistaa, oliko taiteilijalla kenties painaviakin syitä niljakkaan omaelämakerrallisen aineiston kirjaan pierauttamiseen. (Paizi siis raha, exhibitionismi ja kostonhimo.) Noita samoja lukijoita on melkein pakko kadehtia niistä ulkokirjallisista tiedoista joita uutterat elämäkerturit luultavasti saavat kaivettua esiin. Kuinka jännittävää olisikaan jo nyt tutustua siihen mitä Philip Rothin (tai Saul Bellowin tai Norman Mailerin tai Bernard Malamudin) kaltaisten nuppikullien teosten runttaamien naisten mahdolliset esikuvat ajattelevat romaanien haaraväliin juuttuneista rakkaussuhteista. Semmoiset năkökulmat ehkä korjaisivat mieskirjailijoiden karkeimpia -epaoikeudenmukaisuuksia: ainakin romaanien hirviomäisimmät naiset saisivat koston mahdollisuuksia. Hahaa, nyt ollaan siinä pisleessä ja hyvin tiedetään, että ne kirjat on täyttä valetta, toxista misogyynistä panettelua paneskelun lomassa.
xxx/ellauri186.html on line 37: Pidän rupattelevista kirjoista ja kirjailijoista. Esim Rabelais (soveltuvin osin), Cervantes, Sterne, Richardson, Fielding, Saramago, Bellow kirjassa Augie March (ei muut).
xxx/ellauri186.html on line 60: Sokrates oli ruma kuin ikäloppu koira, mutta pääsi silti sievän Alkibiadeen takaluukulle. Mitä tästä opimme? Saul Bellow voi kertoa.
xxx/ellauri186.html on line 65: Sale päätti ruveta kirjailijaxi luettuaan Harriet Beecher Stowen kirjan Setä Tuomon tupa. Vanhana se oli niin rasisti ettei saanut Chicagoon omaa katua. Johkin puistoon tehtiin Saul Bellow pururata. Seneca neuvoi kohtelemaan orjia lempeästi ettei ne pala loppuun ennen aikojaan.
xxx/ellauri186.html on line 391: Seuraavat juutalaiset kirjailijat mainitaan tiheimmin kun keskustellaan kafkalaisuudesta amerikkalaisessa romaanissa ja novellissa: Nathanael West, Isaac Rosenfeld, Delmore Schwartz, Paul Doodman, Saul Bellow, Norman Mailer, J. D. Salinger, Bernard Malamud, Philip Roth, Joseph Heller, Meyer Liben ja Susan Sontag. Sietää muistaa tutkijoiden varaus. Kafkan vaikutus on useimmiten ollut epäsuora ja kietoutunut Freudin ohella muidenkin idealähteiden kanssa: Dostojevski, Kierkegaard, Buber, Reich, Trotski, Sartre... Harvoin se näkyy niin voimallisen tarttuvana kuin Isaac Rosenfeldin (1918-1956) lyhyissä paraabeleissa.
xxx/ellauri186.html on line 394: Rosenfeld's short stories were inspired by his Chicago family: his bombastic father, his mother Miriam who died young, his sister, his unmarried aunts. He and his wife Vasiliki had two children, George and Eleni, the latter of which later became a Buddhist nun. He grew up a few blocks from Saul Bellow, and had known him since he was a teenager, when they worked on the same high school newspaper.
xxx/ellauri187.html on line 645: The Jewish community in Chicago, one of the wealthiest in the world, has always exercised an extremely powerful degree of behind the scenes influence in the Windy City, an influence just as pervasive and powerful (if not more so) as that of the Italian organized crime syndicates, all the more sinister for being far less visible. Read more in Saul Bellow's Adventures of Augie March.
xxx/ellauri195.html on line 167: Mihinkähän mahtaa Saul Bellow tässä kohtaa viitata?
xxx/ellauri195.html on line 310: Women are the rails on which men run. Saul Bellow
xxx/ellauri215.html on line 145: There is a third novelist in The Ghost Writer, Felix Abravanel, “a writer who found irresistible all vital and dubious types, not excluding the swindlers of both sexes who trampled upon the large hearts of his optimistic, undone heroes.” Abravanel, of course, is Saul Bellow. Zuckerman heard him speak at Chicago, just as the young Roth had recently met Bellow in Chicago at a literature class.
xxx/ellauri215.html on line 167: In the best essay ever written on Saul Bellow, Philip Roth wrote that his friend "managed brilliantly to close the gap between Thomas Mann and Damon Runyon". Bellow indeed brought together the teeming, busy world of post-war America, with its wise-guys, money men and "reality instructors", and the high seriousness of old Europe.
xxx/ellauri215.html on line 169: The other great theme is women, wives and ex-wives, especially. Bellow married five times with four divorces, court cases, alimony and ferocious rows about child access.
xxx/ellauri224.html on line 147: This is a situation often found in Bellow’s work: the alliance between the shady millionaire and the intellectual. As a teenager, Trellman had been in love with Amy Wurstin, who had eventually chosen as her second husband Trellman’s best friend in high school, Jay Wurstin. Huom toisexi aviomiehexi, ei tää ole ihan se tavallinen tarina. Throughout the years, Harry Trellman had kept firm to the inner image of Amy in his mind even as he went through his varied career moves. Sitten kotirouviintunut Amy petti Jayta jonkun "Ankan" kanssa ja jäi erossa pennittömäxi. Siitä tuli sisustaja.
xxx/ellauri224.html on line 158: Fiktio on vähintään yhtä täynnä persepäitä kuin faktio, ize asiassa niitä lienee siinä tiheämmässä. Salen Harry Tellerman on sanomaton persepää. Kaikki Actualin miehet ovat eri-ikäisiä Saul Belloweita. Ei siis ihme että ne ovat kaikki persepäitä. Sanditonin fan fictionilta maistuva jatkokausi on yhtä täynnä kusipäitä kuin hirven sierain saivareita, niitä vilisee kuin kumikauloja Salpausselällä.
xxx/ellauri224.html on line 349: Checked out a few Saul Bellow books and discovered I have not changed as I have aged. I just don't enjoy his writing, Nobel Prize winner or not. I can still hear his squeaky Donald Duck voice in my head from many interviews he gave here in Chicago and did see him years ago in debates at The Newberry Library Book Fair.
xxx/ellauri261.html on line 622: Eliade was Saul Bellow's colleague and a pain in the ass in Chicago. He was a leading interpreter of religious experience, who established paradigms in religious studies that persisted to his dying day. His theory that hierophanies form the basis of religion, splitting the human experience of reality into sacred and profane space and time, has proved influential. A hierophany (Mircea's own invention) is a manifestation of the sacred. Eliade argues that religion is based on a sharp distinction between the sacred and the profane. According to Eliade, for traditional man, myths describe "breakthroughs of the sacred (or the 'supernatural') into the World"—that is, hierophanies.
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