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Herzog: Library Edition
(Paperback, 1984)
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Author: Saul Bellow
HERZOG, one of Saul Bellow's most celebrated novels, portrays (via the hero's sad, manic, ironic let...
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Synopsis
HERZOG, one of Saul Bellow's most celebrated novels, portrays (via the hero's sad, manic, ironic letters) the slow decline of Moses Herzog, a failed writer, teacher, husband, and father, as he charges through life unable to face the mistakes that have crippled him and wounded those around him. Introspective, witty, and sharp, the novel provides an astonishing insight into the soul of the modern intellectual. Herzog, whose wife--his third--is unfaithful to him, is a version of Bellow himself, and his rival is reportedly based on a good friend of his who was having an affair with Bellow's own wife at the time. HERZOG won a National Book Award in 1964.
| Size | | Height: | 7.8 in | | Width: | 5.0 in | | Thickness: | 0.8 in | | Weight: | 8.0 oz |
Publisher's Notes
First Line: "If I am out of my mind, it's all right with me, thought Moses Herzog."
Industry Reviews
"With this new work, his sixth novel, Saul Bellow emerges not only as the most intelligent novelist of his generation but also as the most consistently interesting in point of growth and development. To my mind, too, he is the finest stylist at present writing fiction in America. ...There is nothing in any novel I have read quite like these letters Herzog writes. In no sense formal in tone, they represent at once a fictional device and a prodigiously productive aggression of the mind...Among the elements back of [Bellow's style] is, no doubt, a deep sense of humor specifically derived from his Jewish background and thoroughly assimilated to his sensiblity. This style is sensibility in action."
Book Week - Philip Rahv (09/20/1964)
"Structurally and in content, the story of 'Herzog' is unsustaining. But what Herzog sees, the accidental detail of his experience, are very impressive. Here he grows. He really has got a mind, and it is hurt. It is a tribute to Mr. Bellow's great reserves of talent that the novel survives and overgrows its own weaknesses. He remains, for me even in 'Herzog', the most distinguished and interesting American novelist."
New York Review of Books - V. S. Pritchett (10/22/1964)
"Before and, I hope, after everything else has been said, HERZOG should be praised as a marvelously animated performance. It is a book that makes one greedy for the next page, the next character....That Herzog cannot accurately perceive the other figures in the novel and that we are closely confined to his sense of them, is true and in ways...a limitation. But not a crippling limitation, for it soon becomes clear that, while totally committed to Herzog's experience, Bellow is not nearly so committed to his estimate of that experience...He has become a master of something that is rarely discussed in criticism because it is hard to do more than point toward it: the art of timing, which concerns the massing, centering and disposition of the characters and creates a sense of delight in the sheer motion of the narrative."
New Republic - Irving Howe (09/19/1964)
"Over the past 10 or 15 years, Jewish writers--Bernard Malamud, J. D. Salinger, Norman Mailer, Philip Roth, inter alia--have emerged as a dominant movement in our literature. HERZOG, in several senses, is the great pay-off book of that movement. It is a masterpiece, the first the movement has produced....and it is Bellow's most Jewish book. There are no gentiles in it. It is full of Jewish wit, humor, pathos, intellectual and moral passion, hipness about European social thought and foreign literatures."
Moynahan
"HERZOG is Bellow's first protracted expedition as a writer into the immense domain of sex....HERZOG lays claim to being a richer novel even than AUGIE MARCH precisely because Bellow's taking on board, for the first time, the full sexual cargo allows for a brand of suffering to penetrate his fictional world that was largely precluded from AUGIE and HENDERSON....[A] book of a thousand delights...."
New Yorker - Philip Roth (10/09/2000)
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Other Editions
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Paperback, 1996 - $0.87 Save 93%
Audio, 1994 - $51.57 Save 40%
Paperback, 1976 - $0.75 Save 90%
Book, 1976 - $1.75
Paperback, 1967 - $0.75 Save 74%
Paperback, 2003 - $3.98 Save 73%
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Audio, 2006 - $40.59 Save 9%
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