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 87: And what is more regrettable still is how these same types reappear in Humboldt’s Gift. Citrine encounters three kinds of women in his travels: his lover Renata, a deceitful sexual priestess, Denise, his cold, hate-filled ex-wife, and a variety of leggy, doe-eyed students and secretaries.
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 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 173: Koulupoikana Salen Charles Citrine -ego lääppi jalkahoitajan kaunista tytärtä ja luki puistossa Platoa, Wordsworthia, Swinburnea ja Un coeur simpleä. 2 ekaa on punnittu ja köykäsixi havaittu. Entäs ne 2 muuta? Toi ranskis on Flaubertin novelli jossa uskonnollinen palvelustyttö rukoilee täytettyä papukaijaa. Pointti on et ihan sama mitä rukoillaan, rukoileminen on silti apinasta ihanaa, se on vähän kuin vetäs käteen. Sama näkemys kuin Saint Antoinessa. Entäs Swinburne?
ellauri052.html on line 195: Citrine on surullinen 8v tyttärensä puolesta koska se on ohutnenäinen ja laiha. Sale näet pitää enemmän plumpeista. Sale on vastenmielinen kaikilla kriteereillä. Se diggaa Platoa koska se ei voi uskoa et tää on nyt tässä. Pitäis olla jotain hienompaa, sille ainakin. Saul on hurjan tarkka nokintajärjestyxistä ja badgeista. Tyypillinen keskiluokan nousukas, selvä snobi. Hyvin herkkänahkainen ja mielistelyn perään. Pikku gangsteri jää kuin tikku paskaan kun Saul avaa sanaisen arkkunsa. Se on sentään oikeasti julkkis. Yhtä nopea kuin Asael. Abner saisi työntää keihäänsä sen peräpäähän.
ellauri052.html on line 894: Citrinen niinkuin oikeasti Salen äiti kuoli kun se oli teini-ikäinen. Siitä ja Renatasta tulee voimakkaasti mielen Jaakko Hintikka ja Merrill.
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.
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