Best Bellow
Humboldt's Gift is a 1975 novel by Saul Bellow, the Canadian-American writer. Its narrator, Charlie Citrine, is a successful writer whose reflections on his late friend Von Humboldt Fleisher connect literary ambition with money, reputation, aging, and American public life. The novel examines the ten...
Mr. Sammler's Planet is a 1970 novel by Saul Bellow that follows Artur Sammler, an elderly Holocaust survivor and occasional lecturer in 1960s New York City. Through Sammler's observations of social disorder, violence and moral uncertainty, the book examines the relationship between inherited ideas...
Dangling Man is Saul Bellow's first novel, published in 1944. Written in the form of a journal, it follows Joseph, a Chicago man who is waiting for a decision from his draft board during the Second World War. The novel focuses on the uncertainty of deferred enlistment, the pressures of civilian life...
