[lit-ideas] Re: Successor to Arthur Miller?
- From: "William Ball" <ballnw@xxxxxxxxxxx>
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- Date: Mon, 21 Feb 2005 10:59:01 -0500
I remember a delightful time with Bellow's ADVENTURES OF AUGIE MARCH.
Must read it again. I suspect it might be semi-autobiographical.
If you haven't read it, please do.
Bill Ball
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> The Nobel Prize committee thought that Bellow was American, as it did
> Isaac Bashevis Singer (born in Warsaw).
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> 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:
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> 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?
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> 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.
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> http://web.ask.com/redir?u=3Dhttp%3a%2f%2fwww.robertsward.com%2f
> rsward_sbellow.html
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> 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.
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> Robert Paul
> Lake Oswego OR
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