[lit-ideas] Re: Successor to Arthur Miller?
- From: Robert Paul <robert.paul@xxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sat, 19 Feb 2005 12:34:56 -0800
The Nobel Prize committee thought that Bellow was American, as it did
Isaac Bashevis Singer (born in Warsaw).
I can't find anything about when, as I assume he did, Bellow became a US
citizen. There's this from a short interview of Bellow by Robert Sward:
Sward: You were born in Quebec. If your family hadn't moved you to
Chicago when you were nine, your childhood background would have been
roughly similar to that of Mordecai Richler. You might, in other words,
have written about Montreal instead of Chicago. Would you care to
speculate?
Bellow: What's the point in speculating on what didn't happen? I might
have died, in which case none of this would have happened. I damn near
died in the Royal Victoria Hospital, Ward H, in December 1923, where I
was down with pneumonia and peritonitis at the same time, either of
these capable of killing me. I must have been strong as a horse. Because
I survived all that and came out of it. I was then eight years old, and
made it. So, then, how do I know whether I would have been like Mordecai
Richler? I really take exception to being lumped together with A.M.
Klein and Mordecai Richler as if we were a troika of Jewish writers. I
consider myself a Jew and an American who writes books.
http://web.ask.com/redir?u=http%3a%2f%2fwww.robertsward.com%2frsward_sbellow.html
As for famous Minnesota philosophers—have you never heard of the
metaphysician Knute Laager-Larson, or of Jean-Pierre Lemieux, the
internationally acclaimed logician? I thought not.
Robert Paul
Lake Oswego OR
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