Saul Bellow
person
7 mentions
5 recordings
first heard May 2025
last heard 17 Aug
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A renowned author and Nobel laureate who wrote about death and mortality.
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Peak in the week of 15 Jul — 3 mentions across 1 series.
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newest first · ▶ plays the momentJames WoodClose Readings · Who’s afraid of realism? ‘Pnin’ by Vladimir Nabokov · 1:10 · 17 Aug
…Last month we we discussed Saul Bellow's novella Seize the…
James WoodClose Readings · Who’s afraid of realism? ‘Seize the Day’ by Saul Bello... · 12:36 · 20 Jul
…For Bellow, who has, of course, read his modernist texts and absorbed them and, as it were, come out the other side in the 1950s and absorbed modernism, there's an easy way with essentially stream of consciousness.…
James WoodClose Readings · Who’s afraid of realism? ‘Seize the Day’ by Saul Bello... · 5:22 · 20 Jul
…You could put passages from Bellow's novel and passages from Madame Bovary together, and you would say, despite modernism sort of sitting chronologically between 1856 and 1956, that's to say in the 1920s and 1930s, Bellow's novel reads like a good student of Flaubert's.…
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