Saul Bellow's fiction, honored by a Nobel Prize and a Pulitzer, among other awards, has made him a literary giant. Now the man himself and a lifetime of his insightful views on a range of topics spring off the page in this, his first nonfiction collection, which encompasses articles, lectures, essays, travel pieces, and an "Autobiography of Ideas." It All Adds Up is a fascinating journey through literary America over the last forty years, guided by one of the "most gifted chroniclers in the Western World" (The London Times).
Saul Bellow's fiction, honored by a Nobel Prize and a Pulitzer, among other awards, has made him a literary giant. Now the man himself and a lifetime of his insightful views on a range of topics spring off the page in this, his first nonfiction collection, which encompasses articles, lectures, essays, travel pieces, and an "Autobiography of Ideas." It All Adds Up is a fascinating journey through literary America over the last forty years, guided by one of the "most gifted chroniclers in the Western World" (The London Times).
Saul Bellow (1915-2005) is the only novelist to receive three National book awards, for The Adventures of Augie March, Herzog, and Mr. Sammler’s Planet . In 1975, he won the Pulitzer Prize for his novel Humboldt’s Gift. The Nobel Prize in Literature was awarded to him in 1976 "for the human understanding and subtle analysis of contemporary culture that are combined in his work." In 1990, Mr. Bellow was presented the National Book Award Foundation Medal for distinguished contribution to American letters. He has also received the National Medal of Arts. His books include Dangling Man (1944), The Victim (1947), The Adventures of Augie March (1953), Seize the Day (1956), Henderson the Rain King (1959), Herzog (1964), Mosby’s Memoirs (1969), Mr. Sammler’s Planet (1970), Humboldt’s Gift (1975), To Jerusalem and Back (1976), The Dean’s December (1982), Him With His Foot in His Mouth and Other Stories (1984), More Die of Heartbreak (1987), A Theft (1989), The Bellarosa Connection (1989), Something to Remember Me By (1991), It All Adds Up (1994), The Actual (1997), Ravelstein (2000) and Collected Stories (2001). A longtime resident of Chicago, Bellow was living and teaching in Boston at the time of his death in 2005.
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Preface Mozart: An Overture Part One: Riding Off in All Directions In the Days of Mr. Roosevelt Literary Notes on Khrushchev The French as Dostoyevsky Saw Them A Talk with the Yellow Kid Part Two: Writers, Intellectuals, Politics The Sealed Treasure Facts That Put Fancy to Flight White House and Artists A Matter of the Soul An Interview with Myself Nobel Lecture Writers, Intellectuals, Politics: Mainly Reminiscence Part Three: The Distracted Public The Jefferson Lectures The Distracted Public There Is Simply Too Much to Think About Part Four: Thoughts in Transition Spanish Letter Illinois Journey Israel: The Six-Day War New York: World-Famous Impossibility The Day They Signed the Treaty My Paris Chicago: The City That Was, the City That Is Vermont: The Good Place Winter in Tuscany Part Five: A Few Farewells Isaac Rosenfeld John Berryman John Cheever Allan Bloom William Arrowsmith Part Six: Impressions and Notions A Half Life A Second Half Life
Preface Mozart: An Overture Part One: Riding Off in All Directions In the Days of Mr. Roosevelt Literary Notes on Khrushchev The French as Dostoyevsky Saw Them A Talk with the Yellow Kid Part Two: Writers, Intellectuals, Politics The Sealed Treasure Facts That Put Fancy to Flight White House and Artists A Matter of the Soul An Interview with Myself Nobel Lecture Writers, Intellectuals, Politics: Mainly Reminiscence Part Three: The Distracted Public The Jefferson Lectures The Distracted Public There Is Simply Too Much to Think About Part Four: Thoughts in Transition Spanish Letter Illinois Journey Israel: The Six-Day War New York: World-Famous Impossibility The Day They Signed the Treaty My Paris Chicago: The City That Was, the City That Is Vermont: The Good Place Winter in Tuscany Part Five: A Few Farewells Isaac Rosenfeld John Berryman John Cheever Allan Bloom William Arrowsmith Part Six: Impressions and Notions A Half Life A Second Half Life
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