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Humboldt's Gift seems to get by all right without these essentials, nevertheless. As with any classic literature, it has stood the test of time, so although the setting is now a few decades past, the dilemmas and responses of the characters are as relevant now as they were then.
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- Saul Bellow
28 de oct. de 2008 · Humboldt's Gift. Author Saul Bellow. Introduction by Jeffrey Eugenides. Add to Wish List. Paperback. $ 18.00 US. Penguin Adult HC/TR | Penguin Classics. On sale Oct 28, 2008 | 512 Pages | 978-0-14-310547-3. English > Literature > American Literature – 20th Century.
Charlie Citrine, an intellectual, middle-aged author of award-winning biographies and plays, contemplates two significant figures and philosophies in his life: Von Humboldt Fleisher, a dead poet who had been his mentor, and Rinaldo Cantabile, a very-much-alive minor mafioso who has been the bane of Humboldt's existence.
Books. Humboldt's Gift. Saul Bellow. Penguin Books, 2007 - Fiction - 487 pages. 'I think it A Work of genius, I think it The Work of a Genius' John Cheever For many years, the great poet Von Humboldt Fleisher and Charlie Citrine, a young man inflamed with a love for literature, were the best of friends. At the time of his death, however ...
25 de ago. de 1975 · Humboldt's Gift was also a book which eluded my own search for it when I returned from a trip to San Francisco without the book in my possession. I had bought the expensive red leather-bound Franklin Books edition and read about three-fourths of the book, filling it with my notes and marginalia as a guide to my review.
Humboldt's Gift seems to get by all right without these essentials, nevertheless. As with any classic literature, it has stood the test of time, so although the setting is now a few decades past, the dilemmas and responses of the characters are as relevant now as they were then.
- Saul Bellow
Humboldt's Gift (1975), was awarded the Pulitzer Prize. Both Herzog and Mr. Sammler's Planet were awarded the National Book Award for fiction. Mr. Bellow's first non-fiction work, To Jerusalem and Back: A Personal Account, published on October 25,1976, is his personal and literary record of his sojourn in Israel during several months in 1975.
