Saul Bellow

• Verfasst von: Sorin, Gerald [VerfasserIn]
• Titel: Saul Bellow
• Titelzusatz: "I was a Jew and an American and a writer"
• Verf.angabe: Gerald Sorin
• Verlagsort: Bloomington, Indiana, USA
• Verlag: Indiana University Press
• Jahr: 2024
• Umfang: xii, 583 Seiten
• Illustrationen: Illustrationen
• Gesamttitel/Reihe: The modern Jewish experience
• Fussnoten: Includes bibliographical references and index
• ISBN: 978-0-253-06943-6
• ISBN: 978-0-253-06944-3
• Schlagwörter: (p)Bellow, Saul
• Dokumenttyp: Biografie
• Sprache: eng
• Bibliogr. Hinweis: Erscheint auch als : Online-Ausgabe: Sorin, Gerald, 1940 - : Saul Bellow. - Bloomington : Indiana University Press, 2024. - 1 online resource (603 pages)
• RVK-Notation: HU 3125
• Sach-SW: Biographies
• K10plus-PPN: 1868956946

Abstract

"Born in 1915 to Russian Jewish immigrants, Saul Bellow was raised in the small town - "a medieval" shtetl he called it - of Lachine, Quebec, and then in a predominantly Jewish section of Montreal until the age of nine. He had a trilingual childhood which included Yiddish as well as English and French. In an insightful new look at Bellow's life and career, Gerald Sorin argues that Bellow's immersion in Yiddish and childhood memories of the vibrant Jewish life on Montreal's Napoleon and Dominique streets continued to echo in his adult inner ear and permeated almost all of his writing. Much of Bellow's creative power, including the dynamic, comic, and lusty language that became his literary signature, was shaped and informed by the fact that he was Jewish"--